Monthly Archives: October 2002

Be care­ful when using the “Reply to All” but­ton. A local com­pany, East­man Kodak, fired an employee when he com­plained about an e-mail in a mes­sage that went to about 1000 other employ­ees. The com­pany claims that when offered the … Read More →

Computerworld’s 16^th Annual Salary Sur­vey is out. It seems most of the bonuses are gone, but salaries are okay and raises aver­aged 6%. What makes the most dif­fer­ence: how well your com­pany is doing. I can relate.

Instead of satel­lites, some com­pa­nies are turn­ing to stratos­pheric air­craft to relay wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tions. The goal is faster deploy­ment, bet­ter cov­er­age, and quicker time to repair.

Palm Unveils the Tung­sten T, with Blue­tooth, OS 5 and an ARM proces­sor. Sweet, even at $499 MSRP.

Sad news on the open source front. Some­one robbed the Pay­Pal account of the Abi­Word word proces­sor. I use Pay­Pal for a lot of share­ware and online auc­tion pay­ments and the fact that this was so eas­ily done is trou­bling … Read More →

I have been remiss in not not­ing that I was in an intense work­shop this week and not blog­ging. Con­sider this the entry I should have made Monday.