I write today safely back in the Midwest after spending about 5 days in Anaheim, California (for which see my previous post). My purpose in California was the annual Sungard Summit, a very large gathering of customers of Sungard Higher…
Archive for the tag 'technology'
Apr 11 2008
Gone geekin’
I’ll be at the Sungard Summit in sunny Anaheim from Saturday, 12 April through Wednesday, 16 April.
Posting might be light.
Apr 06 2008
Coming soon: superfast internet
Great. Now expect the U.S. to be five years behind Sweden and Japan and most of the the other established countries in the world.
Mar 17 2008
The Fugitive Game
The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick by Jonathan Littman- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Year: 1997
- Pages: 416
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- №24
As someone who spends a lot of time reading computer and security news, I’m no stranger to…
Feb 12 2008
Comparing office file formats
A while ago, as OpenOffice.org 2.0 approached completion, I compared the file sizes of Microsoft Office’s binary format against OpenOffice’s new OpenDocument format. Recall that OpenDocument is an XML-based storage formatted that is ultimate compressed into a zip file, creating smaller…
Jan 31 2008
Moving blogs and .htaccess
When I first set my blog up, years ago, I installed it to a subdirectory called “/blog” with the vague intention that the canonical “http://heliologue.com” URI could be a landing page pointing to whatever else I wanted to put on…
Jan 19 2008
Common compression and corpuses
Every so often, I dink around with benchmarking common lossless compressors. One of the best sites for it is, I think, Werner Bergman’s Maximum Compression, which is a rather comprehensive running benchmark of just about every lossless compression benchmark under…
Dec 08 2007
Various and sundry technology stuff pertaining to work
I don’t usually talk about work on this blog, simply because I’ve read enough horror stories about blogging work matters to know how badly it ends. Granted, if I were to blog about my job, it would mostly consist of…
Nov 29 2007
Tech punditry is hit or miss
In Don Reisinger’s case, it’s miss. I’m struck by the inanity of his recent article about Vista, even though I might agree with it in theory.
But I digress. Although Windows XP running Service Pack 3 is almost twice as fast…