Hesh Wiener
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Paved With Good Intentions
February 19, 2007 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIt’s a milestone. By midyear, Seagate Technology and Hitachi will offer 3.5-inch disk drives that store a terabyte of data. Other disk makers are right on their heels. Processor makers with multicore offerings will reach other technology milestones, as will network gear providers whose products will foster ever-faster communications. It’s hard to think of so many metaphorical milestones without recalling the originals, stone pillars that marked thousand-pace distances on the vast web of Roman Empire roads. These highways linked Rome to the rest of Europe, spanned Britain, and even crossed Asia Minor, producing dramatic consequences, both intended and unintended.
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Between y o u and i
January 15, 2007 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM started it. The company’s 1994 annual report had a plain white cover sporting y o u in very large letters. IBM did it again in 2000, rebranding its midrange as iSeries, but that was two years after Apple introduced its iMac. IBM completely missed its chance in mainframes, where it could have called the z9 the zMine. Apple launched its iPod in 2001, and it showed the iPhone just this month, weeks after Time magazine made You its Person of the Year. The echoes persist for a daffy generation whose narcissism may be its nemesis.
There’s
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Between y o u and i
January 15, 2007 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM started it. The company’s 1994 annual report had a plain white cover sporting y o u in very large letters. IBM did it again in 2000, rebranding its midrange as iSeries, but that was two years after Apple introduced its iMac. IBM completely missed its chance in mainframes, where it could have called the z9 the zMine. Apple launched its iPod in 2001, and it showed the iPhone just this month, weeks after Time magazine made You its Person of the Year. The echoes persist for a daffy generation whose narcissism may be its nemesis.
There’s
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Between y o u and i
January 15, 2007 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM started it. The company’s 1994 annual report had a plain white cover sporting y o u in very large letters. IBM did it again in 2000, rebranding its midrange as iSeries, but that was two years after Apple introduced its iMac. IBM completely missed its chance in mainframes, where it could have called the z9 the zMine. Apple launched its iPod in 2001, and it showed the iPhone just this month, weeks after Time magazine made You its Person of the Year. The echoes persist for a daffy generation whose narcissism may be its nemesis.
There’s
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Greetings Season
December 18, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreWhen it comes to getting mail, the best thing that happens this time of year is the arrival of Christmas cards. It’s nice to hear from people who, without the greeting card tradition, might not get in touch at all. The same can’t be said about e-mail, particularly this year. Any electronic greetings you receive will be grains in a mountain of spam chaff. This year’s spam mountain is likely to be the biggest ever. When the holiday season ends, the spam will not stop; if anything, it’s likely to increase. And there’s worse to come.
The number of spam
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Greetings Season
December 18, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreWhen it comes to getting mail, the best thing that happens this time of year is the arrival of Christmas cards. It’s nice to hear from people who, without the greeting card tradition, might not get in touch at all. The same can’t be said about e-mail, particularly this year. Any electronic greetings you receive will be grains in a mountain of spam chaff. This year’s spam mountain is likely to be the biggest ever. When the holiday season ends, the spam will not stop; if anything, it’s likely to increase. And there’s worse to come.
The number of spam
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Greetings Season
December 18, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreWhen it comes to getting mail, the best thing that happens this time of year is the arrival of Christmas cards. It’s nice to hear from people who, without the greeting card tradition, might not get in touch at all. The same can’t be said about e-mail, particularly this year. Any electronic greetings you receive will be grains in a mountain of spam chaff. This year’s spam mountain is likely to be the biggest ever. When the holiday season ends, the spam will not stop; if anything, it’s likely to increase. And there’s worse to come.
The number of spam
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Stay the Recourse
November 20, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM is hooting about SOA, which stands for Services Oriented Architecture and which approximately means putting the changing needs of end users at the heart of computer systems development. We don’t know where end users were in the landscape before; we had, apparently in mistake, thought they were always the most prominent feature. In any event, this kind of SOA stuff, even if it makes some excellent points, is largely a red herring. It won’t reduce software or support costs. To do that, IBM resorts to another SOA, Substitute Offshore Artisans.
Services Oriented Architecture is the latest in
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Stay the Recourse
November 20, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM is hooting about SOA, which stands for Services Oriented Architecture and which approximately means putting the changing needs of end users at the heart of computer systems development. We don’t know where end users were in the landscape before; we had, apparently in mistake, thought they were always the most prominent feature. In any event, this kind of SOA stuff, even if it makes some excellent points, is largely a red herring. It won’t reduce software or support costs. To do that, IBM resorts to another SOA, Substitute Offshore Artisans.
Services Oriented Architecture is the latest in
-
Mad Dog 21/21: Stay the Recourse
November 20, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM is hooting about SOA, which stands for Services Oriented Architecture and which approximately means putting the changing needs of end users at the heart of computer systems development. We don’t know where end users were in the landscape before; we had, apparently in mistake, thought they were always the most prominent feature. In any event, this kind of SOA stuff, even if it makes some excellent points, is largely a red herring. It won’t reduce software or support costs. To do that, IBM resorts to another SOA, Substitute Offshore Artisans.
Services Oriented Architecture is the latest in