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Christmas comes early! - SPARC processor in IBM Blade Form

Admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:22:56 +0000

We use the IBM Blade Center H chassis in our Data Center along with blades from other vendors including Sun Micro. I have told both our IBM rep and Sun Rep that our life would be so much easier if we could get a SPARC based processor in an IBM Blade. <insert visual of well dressed sales guy rolling in [...]

The Meeting Melee

JP — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:11:18 +0000

Eric Brown wrote a piece about Meetings & Trust in his blog Eric Brown’s Blog discussing how a manager had a pre-meeting to a meeting to “shape” what information was to be discussed during that meeting with the boss’s superiors. I agree there are some trust issues with that manager and numerous meetings requested by the boss can [...]

Business Ecosystem

JP — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:57:03 +0000

In an effort to define, to me, what have been some abstract terms in the business and IS/IT world, I thought I would start posting some reference material. I have discovered some of this through one of the classes I am currently taking on Information Systems Management. Feel free to comment, suggest additions, etc. The concept [...]

A handy use for twitter

JP — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:20:41 +0000

I am not a big user or follower of folks on twitter. However, I did find a handy use for twitter. Since I have connections from my Blackberry and IM to twitter, it is fairly convenient for me to put something in twitter. My company pays for millage to any other office or offsite visit required [...]

Screw the cheese! Who moved my creativity?

JP — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:59:58 +0000

Some people who read this will think I have come down with a case of Technophobia or Xenophobia. It’s not true. I have hit on issues with being distracted in past posts. It is just that I have noticed it more recently. Disruptions, interruptions, distractions, and task switching has had a signficant impact to my quality of work. Whether it’s Instant Message, [...]

Another view: Tip #1 Don’t talk much, just listen

JP — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:09:13 +0000

I want to visit upon a different view on one of my tips from a post back in January with ideas of what to do after being hired in IT. In a effort to try to continually evaluate and present multiple facets to my thoughts, I wanted to describe an alternate view on tip #1. A colleague of [...]

Surprise! We spouses care

Ricki — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:05:28 +0000

When my “geek” husband would work late and he would call asking, or I would call to ask him if he wanted, me to bring him dinner, I would always ask, “Does anyone else there want anything? I’ll bring them something too.” Naturally, this was not a problem but what I thought funny was some [...]

itminddesign.com does twitter!

JP — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:05:04 +0000

Just wanted to let everyone know that itminddesign.com now has a twitter account for those who like to follow sites and posts through twitter. http://twitter.com/itminddesign

Product End of Life Link Roundup

JP — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:17:36 +0000

You ever need find out if your product (hardware/software) is supportable or wonder why the maintenance costs are skyrocketing? The odds are your hardware or software is on the end of life list. Here is a link round up of the public “end of life” (EOL) website listings for some IT vendors. If you are a consumer or vendor and would [...]

Pain Based Cost Accounting Model

JP — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:02:16 +0000

There is a lot of turmoil with the transfer pricing (chargebacks) in my company. Being that we are in a responsibility accounting model and the commercial and internal IT department is a cost center, we seem to be somewhat limited in the flexibility of our chargeback method. I did read an excellent article from Management Accounting Quarterly describing [...]