Daryl Plummer

I finally got ’round to publishing my cartoon strip about computing. Click on the image to see a larger version. I hope you like it and I will try to post more at least three times per week. Formatting will also get better as I adjust image sizes. Enjoy, and comments are always welcome. Anyone [...]

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A recent sys-con article on Cloud Computing purports to present Twenty-One experts defining Cloud Computing. After reading it I was impressed by the list of experts but fought long and hard to find any actual definitions in the piece. To me, one of the biggest problems we have in IT is the vagueness and lack [...]

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On the day that Martin’s birth is celebrated and the day before the swearing in of America’s first black president, I am facing the dichotomies of two complementary worlds. One world is the world of a black man working in an industry predominantly peopled by non-black professionals. The other is the world of any man [...]

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I was driving my son to school this morning, dodging traffic cops, school buses, and the occasional jogging mother with a stroller for triplets when a news story came on the radio. It wasn’t a new topic nor even an unexpected one. But it got me to thinking. The story was about Steve Jobs taking [...]

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There is a change on the horizon and it is about voyeurism.
No, no, no – get your mind out of the gutter, the kind of voyeurism I’m referring to here is “Voyeuristic Business”. That means businesses that are based almost entirely on observing and capitalizing on what other people – not part of the [...]

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