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Failing Faster

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ June 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Here is a simple question to ask yourself: do I insist on solving problems myself? A noble goal, until it takes too long to get the answer. Why don’t we fail fast enough to ask the question to someone who knows? Remember, we pay a ton of money for annual maintenance to our enterprise software [...]

Would you like me to google that for you?

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ March 12, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Got some rare Re-Tweets today on a techie insult – so snappy, I had to write a post to use it for a title! Deep in the problem analysis and debugging process, the typical IT hack experiences counter-balancing pressures that impact decision making – Capable Independence vs. Speed to Value. Capable Independence is just fancy-talk [...]

Enterprise 2.1: Exiting the Trough of Disillusionment

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

“What will you do with that car if you actually catch it?” – what the cat asked the dog (from the Chicago Reader, circa 1989) So you’ve gone all “Enterprise 2.0″, spinning up a wiki, a blog, and a SharePoint or Drupal server inside your firewall. Now what happens? The groundswell of interest in “cool [...]

IMAP Gmail Reinforcing the Drive to Web-based Productivity Applications

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve noted in the past that I’m trying to move to browser-based productivity tools, and Google’s recent announcement in support of IMAP access for Gmail just gave me a little shove. Historically I’m a POP3 kind of guy, preferring to download all messages from my “external” e-mail accounts to my hard drive. In retrospect, this [...]

New iPAQ – Cleaning off old data

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 11, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Google to the rescue again – I’m swapping out old for new iPaq, and was faced with the task of clearing off old data. I manually deleted 61 tasks, sure, but impatience took over when it came to the 1200 contacts. Google to the rescue – I found this: Dave’s iPAQ – How To Delete [...]

Ah, the power of Google

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 10, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Never underestimate what you can find out on the internet. We have some consultants in, and they are reviewing deliverables from a recently completed project. This includes process flows done in Visio, so of course they had to have a copy. As if we have multiple licenses floating around … but never fear. A quick [...]