The role of a company's CIO (Chief Information Officer) is to assist an enterprise in looking at its goals and structure from an information technology angle. A Chief Information Officer, also known as an Information Technology Director, is tasked with evaluating strategies and investments in the field of IT. A small company might require competent, knowledgeable support for a major IT decision or investment, such as deciding whether to move to the cloud or adopt a new phone system. Making the wrong choice due to a lack of appropriate expertise could result in an expensive, even catastrophic, error. A CIO can oversee decisions of this sort, assessing the needs of the company and discovering the most appropriate solution based on the available options. Consider the example of a small finance firm that needs to make multiple long-distance and international calls. A CIO could help to evaluate possible options to reduce costs, such as the possibility of switching to a VoIP-based phone service: the reduction in cost versus the possible reduction in reliability, how dropped calls might be handled such that they don't impact on the company's ability to serve its clients effectively, and other concerns. Continue reading

via www.badnima.com But what I like is that it took two planets crashing into each other to give us the perfect state that can sustain life. (The left over stuff is the moon.) Continue reading

"What made me smile today?" Why do you ask? Well actually it is a very nice question that I only have time to answer in "short form". I made pancakes this morning. Someone... I won't say who, encouraged me to use old premix... The mix did not work out. I prefer to make such a simple recipe with my own mistakes and not the "packet". But despite that... the girls liked the pancakes anyway. Then I went for a walk with them through the city and three parks. It has been a lovely day and I didn't spend a dime on anything. This, upon reflection, makes me smile. Now I am off to make some dinner. Continue reading

IT work is never done. It is again, 1am and the work "in tray" is more full than before. I have to wonder if there is perhaps a company to rationalize high pay for good IT people that exceed the classic models. The basic idea is that if you stick a formal process behind the IT so that this kind of work is not needed the costs of running IT rise. More time invested, more communication, more IT process checking and less overall management infrastructure of the operational system. Not the people that "check out" at 5pm but the ones... Continue reading

Not that too many people noticed but... I undeleted facebook. How do you ask? Well, easy they don't actually delete it if you ask them. They wait a bit... To see if you will be back. I was weak. I had to come back. Seems my clients could not access their pages and some apps I had liked through my account. Perhaps not wise to be too rash when other people have an online dependency in my account. Which clearly needs to be fixed. Anyway. I am weak... It is true... Facebook showed its ugly mug to me again. Continue reading

Killing the addiction is not easy. I have been on facebook since the earliest of it's college users only days. Now my relationship with this globally infections resource of hyper efficient authentication management, messaging and information sharing is gone. Can I hold out? Over the period of the next few days, I am going to take some public notes about the choice I took to delete the facebook account. It is more than the information, the people connections and images I will be missing, it is a range of other matters for a person like me uses facebook to do.... Continue reading

My first computer vs. my first computer memory. I started with computers like many people in my generation. The game console. Yes. In my era it was the Atari 2600. In fact, Atari was conceived in my birth year, Atari Inc. (1972–1984) but in fact... I am still alive and working with computers... while Atari is just a romantic legend. Many other systems were invented and lived and died... the ones that really left their mark we can save for another time... But the first real understanding of a computer came with the purchase of a Compaq x86 luggable. This... Continue reading

In the future, we will travel at the speed of light.... we will have to lose our luggage before hand... - Robin Williams. In my view, education is to be accomplished everywhere and anywhere but the key element you miss by excluding university is the "real life" community that is built and driven with "like minded, motivated" people in the same surroundings and influences. That can, of course be engineered to exist in a more cost effective form than a classic university setting. I would imagine that the future of the form higher level education and to extend this office\workspace is due for a significant disruption in the next few years. The iPad like classroom with interactive social media technologies at its center for collaboration and communication will be more and more the economical feasible option for mass-customized education. I think that the role of universities in the future will be to create innovative ways to validate knowledge, critical thinking and to provide the mechanism for clustering funding for research aligned to the knowledge validation. ... I think. Continue reading