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The DVDs have just come out of manufacturing, and have arrived at the mailing house. So they should hit the post in the next day or so. You should start to see them in your mailbox around the end of the week.
I’ll be interested to see them this year, since only the presentations are supposed to be shown on the DVD, and NOT the presenters.
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Being a huge John Carter fan (read all the books as a kid), this movie should be a welcome addition.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=31106
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Benjamin Tobias Franz has discovered a weakness in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
http://secunia.com/advisories/15546/
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It’s amazing how much response I received on this little post: http://www.myitforum.com/blog/rtrent/archive/2005/05/29/7562.aspx
You wouldn’t believe the number of folks that think this is a good idea. Realistically, I also understand it’s something that will never happen.
From what I understand (from some of the emails I received) there are quite a few people in charge of customer accounts who really shouldn’t be there — and companies would LOVE to have some sort of say in that.
It really would be interesting, though, if vendor support was based on customer participation. There are internal personnel reviews, but why aren’t the customers also allowed to participate in those? There are a number of vendors who could benefit from something like this — pushing them to the forefront of support and customer appreciation.
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OK — so in the last few days I’ve missed a graduation, a graduation party, and a trip to a local amusement park for my nephew’s birthday. Why? Well — because I didn’t stay in Hawaii. hehe…
Things have gotten ever busier on this front since my return from vacation. I’ve shut down Outlook a few times in the last week just to get work completed. It’s amazing how much work piles up when you take vacation. I’ve told Meg at least once a day that we should just keep the bags packed and move to the islands. I realize that’s just not realistic, but hey, whatever helps, right?
So, how long does it take to get over a great vacation?
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http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/
Lots of Windows XP stuff.
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http://tabletpcblogs.com/default.aspx
Great site! Still it seems a bit funny to me that someone would want to be that specific with communities. Web blogging isn’t about a single technology, or a single theme. Community brings together a wide range of folks to solve problems. Web blogging should do the same. Maybe, I’m simply warped.
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Just mulling over this tidbit today in my head. Wouldn’t it be interesting, if some of the larger companies (say, Microsoft) allowed community comments on folks they were thinking of hiring? How would that change the landscape of hiring and Human Resources?
As an example, say there’s a couple folks MS is thinking of hiring, but they put both names out to the community and allow the community to choose? Resumes ALWAYS look good. But, what really counts is the customers opinions, right? What if someone like Microsoft posted, “Hey community! We’re thinking of hiring one of these people. Which one do you respect more?”
Maybe, there’s a better way for folks like MS to hire the “right” people. Maybe, professionally polished resumes can be a thing of the past. Just a thought…
And, in that same vein, can communities decide what vendor properties are outsourced? I think this one is a bit tougher since it’s about the bottom line — but when’s the last time you really enjoyed a chat with PSS and figured out that it was someone from India?
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…with the number of things that have been outsourced! I’m working with a company from India this week for something you will definitely be concerned about. Of course, I’m under NDA which means I can’t even let you know about it. I’ve been blasted a LOT lately for the number of NDA’s I have to sign per year. But, yeah — a LOT of the things I do are completely under wraps. There’s a huge number of things I do every year that I simply can’t tell you about. Sure, I feel like someone from Area 51, but I believe it really benefits YOU for me to be so secretive.
On the latest item…
First … you can’t understand them on the phone (the folks from India).
Second … they (the folks from India) have NO idea what is really important for the topics THEY are tasked with to cover and manage.
This is really frustrating. I submitted some things to them early in the week and they STILL called me to ask “if I sent them?” because their electricity had been out for 2–3 days. Great stuff. For a $1 a week, I guess electricity is the last thing you worry about.
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God, I love my Cingular phone (Siemens sx66). But, they are simply boneheads when it comes to service. I live on an elevation of about 2 miles above my local city, but Cingular can’t figure out how to give me the same service as those in the “valley”. What’s up with that? I can get Nextel service 100%. Is Nextel that much better? Does Nextel’s network take into account the number of folks that MAY live on a hill in the U.S.?
It seems so.
I have until June 5th to try to get this fixed. If I can’t convince the Cingular folks to get this fixed between now and then, I have to return a very useful, very versatile phone. I’m sad.
But, what’s more upsetting is the number of folks that live out where I do. Cingular is really missing a huge market here. They don’t care. I’ve mentioned this to them about 4 times now, and they are less concerned about this than I think they should be.