Browsing the archives for the opinion category
Just discovered what looks like a change to Bell Sympatico‘s outgoing e-mail servers. My parents both use their own domain name’s for their e-mail. Their internet connection is with Sympatico, which forces them to use Sympatico’s authenticated SMTP server for their outgoing mail. This type of setup is common (in fact, probably the standard now) with [...]
(To see the status of the Amazon data center, see their Service Health Dashboard) If you spend any time online, it should not come as a surprise to you that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) data center in North Virginia has been experiencing serious technical difficulties since this morning. This has affected the availability of many major online web applications [...]
It’s hardly a secret that you’re not supposed to use a simple password to protect your digital information, whether it be on your desktop computer, or with online services. Last month’s hack of the Gawker password database proves yet again that we choose to use simple, easy to remember passwords instead of making the security [...]
I had an idea this morning that may help discourage drinking and driving this holiday season. Having worked as DJ for many years, I’ve been asked all too often by people for the phone number of a local taxi service. Most people don’t have one stored in their phone. With the popularity of smart phones [...]
A colleague of mine tweeted today that “There are 3 types of Web 2.0 in Government: Social Media, Collaborative Tools & Open Data”. I’m not sure if I agree with him. Since my thoughts are longer than 140 characters, so I’ll blog about it instead. The Wikipedia definition of Web 2.0, which I think is [...]
A rebuttal to a colleague’s warning to not attempt to modify WordPress Templates without knowing what you’re doing.