We do an offfsite DR test 2x per year.

In addition we are in a building with diesel generators and sufficient fuel to run for several weeks.

While risk taking is a psychological characteristic, many people including myself, avoid random risk taking, but will take selected risks (Steve might know about about the back road to Hurricane...

When I moved in my cube I found a TI desktop hexadecimal calculator from the 80s

"do you like dotted lines?" is almost a silly question because the real world and society in general is composed of them. Clean demarcation of communication and responsibility is an...

Lempster (9/14/2011)

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...Application vendors are not terribly helpful either - try finding any documentation where it specifcally states what permission is required on a given object. Most of the time it...

Often it's outside your control, and will be more so in the cloud.

The recent police email hack involved an outside vendor of computer services. (Some of the emails, though,...

GilaMonster (9/4/2011)

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bill.saunders1 (9/3/2011)

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Asking where I park is like asking me where they whip me when I get to work. One hopes that the rising price of gas will make...

What really bugs me are...

Parking is a funny thing. Some people here have assigned parking spots and these are guarded with a jealousy that's hard to imagine ... if someone else gets a more...

Excellent story.

And it reminds us that the much more simple solution existed: Let each user choose their own writing instrument.

There has been...

I find some of those trick questions suggest that you're dealing with an interviewer who likes to think he's pretty damned clever but is less adept at picking a good...

Revenant (8/9/2011)

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Tom.Thomson (8/9/2011)

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This is a great editorial, but even so it fails to address the whole problem. . . .

BUT: . . .

Usually the human aspects of system design are...

There is another issue with cloud data, as well.

Your company, by itself, may not be a high profile target for hackers, but a site with hundreds of companies and thousands...

Tom.Thomson (8/5/2011)

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Absolutely right that technical people (and...