by Tom Austin | February 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Our email/IM/calendaring tools could get a lot better than they are. – This post started out as a rant about “Out of office” messages that read something like this: ”Please STOP and read this message. I will be unavailable for the next 13 days.” This is an example of the useless lengths people will go trying [...]
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by Tom Austin | February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
The industry lost a down to earth giant on Sunday night. Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) passed away. At lot of words have been written about him, including repetitions of the out-of-context claim that he had no vision for personal computers and couldn’t see why anyone would want one. That quote misrepresents [...]
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