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Who “gets” Internet and who doesn’t

by @ Tuesday, April 12th, 2011. Filed under Grumbles, Ramblings, YukYuks

Oh, joy… we have a federal election on May 2nd. Being concerned about big ISP monopolies who had lobbied for per-user data caps and an “anti-Internet set of “Lawful Access” policies that would have Internet providers collect personal information without court oversight” The Portable Consultant  “signed” this petition by OpenMedia.ca and they sent an email [...]

Common Business Oriented Goldilocks

by @ Thursday, May 28th, 2009. Filed under YukYuks

The Portable Consultant has read at The Register that COBOL turned FIFTY (50) years old today… Welcome to the Middle Ages, COBOL! We like to say “Fifty is the new Forty”, but in your case… perhaps not so much. The following ‘story’ has lived on the Internet for many long years. Apparently it first appeared [...]

Virtual work at Sun Microsystems is a Wonderland

by @ Friday, November 16th, 2007. Filed under New Paradigms, Open Source, YukYuks

It was the spring of 2006 when The Portable Consultant first posted comments here about Second Life’s virtual world. That was a playground (umm… for adults, you know – like Vegas). Now we can go to work in a similar environment. Sun has recently set up a virtual world for its teleworkers, very much like [...]

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