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Outside My Comfort Zone: Going YouTube
Although I am pretty technical, write hundreds of words per week (work emails/proposals), spend many hours on telecons and speak to live audiences several times per week/month, podcasting, video blogging and video content has not been in my priority list until recently. I totally see it as a must have skill in today’s world and…
Strong and Different Passwords Protect your Digital Life
This week I did my annual corporate security training and I really liked this story to illustrate how important is not to use different and strong passwords Don’t Let This Happen to You An online writer and journalist, suffered an identity theft that reads like a real-life horror story. As he describes it: “In the…
fetchTweets Web-App
fetchTweets allows you to retrieve tweets in HTML table format fetchTweets is a web-based application I wrote in PHP to create a backup of my tweets on my blog. I later modified it so anyone can use it from the web. https://fetchtweets.jorgep.com A PHP script retrieves (“fetch”) the tweets from an account and returns the results in…
2017 Summer of Crazy
Probably too early to post as we still have 15 days to go, but what a summer this one has been! As far as I can remember, I have never seen anything like this.. Truly Mother Nature is showing up big time this year: Hurricane Harvey – Texas Floods – $176B in losses Monsoon…
31Posts.com Comes To An End
Today, September 6, 2017 we are closing 31posts.com It is never easy to close a project you have been involved in… In the past year, there are a number of applications that have come out that handle social media schedules and publishing that have the same or better feature set that 31Post was targeting….
Santa Monica 2017 Visit – Homeless
As I talked on my podcast last week, I always wanted to stay in Santa Monica. I’ve heard many good things about it. I’ve visited several times over the years, but never stayed overnight. I had the opportunity to spend a couple of nights there, and it was a bit shocking. It…
Craiglist Experience – Always Be Alert!
This is just a reminder that you always need to be on the alert – One never knows who you are talking to or where they are coming from. Scammers are out there! I posted an ad in craigslist selling my travel trailer a few days ago. By 1:00p on the day…
IT Jobs Likely To Be Replaced By Artificial Intelligence
Just came across this article in Information Week by Cynthia Harvey: 10 IT Jobs That Will Be Done by AI. I have never liked articles set as slideshows where you have to click to get the next page / slide. It is an interesting list with good information, so I thought I would summarize it….
Walter Mossberg Retires on Charlie Rose
Walter Mossberg , THE GO-TO technology columnist for many years, is retiring. He announced his retirement in early June 2017 and Charlie Rose interviewed him not only on his life as a journalist but they got to talk about the future. Excellent conversation. A truly accomplished and down-to-earth person. Impeccable journey,…
NAS for Home
In today’s digital age, managing data has become an essential aspect of daily life. From storing personal files to backing up business-critical information, having a reliable and secure storage solution is paramount. Two popular options for data management are Network Attached Storage (NAS) and cloud storage. What is Network Attached Storage (NAS)? A NAS device…
Fourth Industrial Revolution – Davos 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and the implications on society, economy and culture are tremendous… For some of us in the field, we notice the rate of the change. The speed of the technological revolution is incredible. Every leader, no matter how small or large, high or low your position…
Today is our 30 Year Anniversary!
Today is our 30th year anniversary. My wife, Flavia, is not a fan of this word, but today I think it is very appropriate: WOW! As of this week, we have known each other 30 years and 6 weeks. Although she did not know it back then, the day we met, I knew she…
Home Security Ideas
I want to share some ideas for protecting your home that we use ourselves… We have an alarm system. THE most important thing is to post the “this house is protected by… ” signs in very visible areas of the the back front and side of the house — Back when we were…
Podcast Journey – The Beginning
As you may have noticed, I started a podcast! YES I know – I am late to the party, and yes I also know a lot of people are v-blogging (video-blogging) now… It is funny because it has been on my to do list for about 4 years, and I just never got to…
My Top 10 Basic Rules for Non-Business Travel
After years of travel, these are the 10 basic rules of travel I’ve developed. I will be telling you the same, if you go to Chicago, Paris, New York, Egypt, Japan or Santiago– no difference. Be a smart traveler: Do not get into dark alleys, be aware of your surroundings, travel light, trust your…
What will future jobs look like? TED Talk 2013
Good stuff!- TED talk from 2013 – still very current today. Published on Jun 20, 2013 Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs — or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate…
Book Recommendation: Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
Good book.! – “The Inevitable, Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.” Thank you Wikipedia for summarizing the 12 trends that will forever change the ways in which we work, learn and communicate: Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using…
US Treasury Secretary Unreal
This past week I ran across an article in the news that made my mind melt (I thought it was a April fool’s joke – but it was not!!) — my tweet follows: I have always been in the business of implementing technology to help automate / improve processes within businesses, and have written a number…
No more desk. Workspace of the Future
Although I’ve been thinking for a while, I finally replaced my standard home office desk with *nothing*. Yes, no more conventional desk! I must admit it, on one hand it is a bit liberating, but on the other it is hard leaving the past behind. Like for most of us, the music library is complete…
Sunrises and Sunsets
Hard to believe that so many people in the world simply sleep through sunrise or miss sunsets completely missing them. One of my favorite things to do is to wake wake up early and catch the sunrise. Although I enjoy sunsets, and I try to notice them every day, I am partial to sunrises…..
Organic Fractals
I love to go to different street markets – You see so much in such a compact place it is fun. It is a great opportunity to take a few pictures because there is always something new to notice.. This past week we stopped by the Pike Place Market in Seattle, and as I was…
Travels 2016 – A look back
It was a busy 2016 for me. Like every year, lots of travel (airplanes, hotels, cars, and conference rooms) . It is always good to visit customers and talk about the latest tech trends with them face to face. I love to do that, and I am lucky to do it. It was about 61…
Thank you 2016 – Welcome 2017
A new year begins. For many reasons (and not only the obvious one) 2016 was a strange one. We look forward to 2017 and beyond with the best of hopes… Wishing everyone the best! P.S For some reason, as I write this, this saying comes to mind: Do not look…
National Geographic Channel – Back to GOOD Programming
I saw this article in the WSJ today, and I am so happy to see confirmation that National Geographic Channel is returning to educational and interesting programming rather than the terrible reality shows they have been for the past few years… There has been several programs so far, that have been great! Before the Flood …
Microsoft Ignite 2016 – Win10 / EMS Sessions
I have extracted a list of the Windows 10 / EMS and related sessions with links to the respective videos online. Once again – THANK YOU Microsoft for publishing these to the folks that could not make t it the Microsoft Ignite 2016 (Atlanta) conference. If you have one that I may have missed, please…
The Value Proposition of a Platform: Microsoft Win10/Office365/EM+S
[ Update 20161004: I encourage you to watch Brad Anderson’s keynote session at Microsoft Ignite 2016 – Simply IMPRESSIVE! ] As I have written before, technology management has made an incredible shift over the past few years (maybe the last 3-5 years). Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service are now the common conversations in most…
Launching a SaaS application….
It is interesting. Even though we have been using the app for about 12 months (and I am loving it) it has taken a lot of effort to get it to a point where we feel comfortable launching an a service for others to use. It doesn’t have to be “right”, and it will never be perfect,…
Experience is worth it!
This is not mine, but It was a good reminder that experience is worth it and to charge for the value of your services. A critical gearbox failed and no one could fix it. So they brought in a bloke with great trouble-shooting experience. He inspected the gear drive very carefully. After looking things…