I want a Mac, an iBook, to be more specific. I always wanted a Mac. Not that there is anything wrong with my current laptop (or is there?), but Apple’s operating system is just so much more appealing, particularly the Jaguar and Tiger versions. Needless to say that the user-friendliness of MacOS has always been [...]

I’m always wondering which operating system airplanes run on. I mean, those hundreds of indicators, gauges, displays etc. in a modern cockpit can’t all be hard-wired. Well, I do hope it’s not Windows, Linux, or any other desktop OS, since those platforms will never be reliable. I’m serious: never!
One would think that building [...]

A group of former IBM Consulting Group buddies met yesterday at StrandPauli, where we talked about the good old times and current industry topics, one of which was Mendocino. According to one guy who works at SAP in Waldorf these days, the reason for calling the SAP/Microsoft initiative Mendocino is that this California town sits [...]

In my professional career over the last 20 or so years, there were three major areas that I had interest in: applications, integration, and analytics. When those three are coming together and you intersect the respective capabilities, there is a new concept possible that would allow organizations to get insight into the operational truths about [...]

Although I have been part of the group that is responsible for writing and publishing IBM redbooks for many years, the model behind the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) remains more or less a mystery to this date. IBM runs a number of ITSO centers (e.g., in Almaden, Austin, Raleigh, Rochester or Poughkeepsie), where assignees [...]

In a few hours, the last ever METAmorphosis conference will kick off here at the Caesars Gauteng in Johannesburg, South Africa. Together with META Group’s local consultants and Ex-META Group (now Gartner) analyst colleagues Willie Appel, Rakesh Kumar, Luis Leamus, Jean-Louis Previdi, Tom Scholtz, and Will Cappelli, I will be one of the last people [...]

Yes, I know, Firefox has had security exposures, too. But I still feel a lot safer regarding trojans and other nasty stuff like CWS with the Mozilla browser than with IE. Tabbed browsing did it for me, so I’ve been using Firefox for almost a year, and I really prefer that browser. One thing I’m [...]

I recorded a short welcome message on Audioblogger. It’s kinda neat that you can include audio in your post. Adds a little personal touch. Now that I know the HTML that goes with it, I will also post a few original recordings here. Stay tuned.

Sometimes I’m simply stunned by the fact that users put up with this userid madness. I mean, when we all logged on to our mainframe system running VM, that’s pretty much the only login we had to do for the whole day. Now, we connect to a dozen systems and our user profile is never [...]

Mark Fiore is certainly a cartoonist (and Flash programmer) with an agenda. I wish there was a similar person here in Germany, who would be as political as Mark, who lives in San Francisco. German politics are certainly full of cartoon candidates, and if one extended it to the EU, the satire material would not [...]