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This is a real eye-opener! Ken Shirriff’s blog: iPad charger teardown: inside Apple’s charger and a risky phony http://ow.ly/wMU0h

http://www.fragmentationneeded.net/2013/03/what-did-west-virginia-officials-buy.html This kind of wasteful spending is just crazy. While I can understand the desire to standardize the equipment across locations, this only works if there is a small delta between requirements. You simply don’t put in a piece of gear designed for 500 users in a location that has only 5. In my day […]

Dear potential vendors: Hiding your price list from me doesn’t make it more likely that I’ll buy. It does risk wasting your time, and mine.

Service Desk personnel don’t get enough love. http://ow.ly/ieAcA

I write this blog post with a heavy heart.  After such a long hiatus from blogging, I was hoping to write a post about the glories of the latest technology to end up in my lap.  Unfortunately, it is not to be. A week ago, my wonderful wife allowed me to convince her that I […]

        Of course, it works fine on Chrome on the Mac…

For a few weeks, I gave up my iPhone 4S and used a Lumia 900.  Overall, the experience was pretty good, but not good enough to keep me away from the iPhone. On the positive side, the big screen is a real beauty.  The email application worked pretty well, and the animations were well done.  […]

I bet they worked pretty hard at making sure it doesn’t do this as it ages…    

I’m still getting used to WordPress.  I’ll be faster at approving comments in the future.  Sorry!