Well, actually 06 as I spent two of them already.  If you follow me on Twitter (@wjklos) – you would have found out first.  Co-workers was 2nd priority.  Blog 3rd.  I may have to change that lineup a bit as my first response on Twitter was a spammer (sorry, no Wave for you) and the [...]

Over the next 10 years, the world will change as much as it has in the last twenty. If you buy into that statement, then 2020, will make 2010 look like 1990. As a business owner, that rate of change is something I probably can’t fathom too well. I’m focusing on my day-to-day operations (or maybe quarter-to-quarter in a public company). I’m dealing with annual budgets, reviews, sales quotas, economic issues, and so on. On top of all that, I probably don’t consider myself a technology company so I happily run my systems, make sure I’m compliant where I need to be, stay out of the newspaper RSS feeds with data security issues, and hope my BC/DR plans are up-to-date (they’re not). I didn’t see the end of my business coming — until it was too late.

Things are changing. Rapidly. The old solutions are just that…old. It’s time we start embracing the change and tell our clients, “Sorry, you used to be an insurance/medical/financial company, but now you are a technology company – and you’re doing it wrong.”

In an area where people are gathered, either physically or vitually, the conversations and comments being made in the background, are often more prescient, and almost certainly more entertaining than than the subject matter being officially presented. Encouraging and capturing these backchannel discussions is a way to make your presentations more relevant to that specific audience and allow the speaker to morph and refine the message based on those sessions of invaluable feedback.

Like everyone else it seems, after I saw the GoogleIO presentation of Wave this Summer, I navigated through all the links I could find trying to find a way to sign up. I mean, come on. I’m an early adopter of everything they put out for consumption, that’s gotta be worth a little consideration right? [...]

The Execution phase of our Agile Data Center move is where all the fun stuff happens. As a reminder from the previous entries about the project setup and preparation, we’re doing a data center move where the schedule is flexible (the client is more tolerant of time, less tolerant of risk) and the requirements [...]

Via a co-worker’s nomination (thanks @michaelcollier!), I got my Google Wave invitation last night. The nomination was submitted on October 1st and the invitation came through about a week later. Another co-worker was also nominated about the same time, and he got his invite a few minutes after I did. So all [...]

I’m giving talks on cloud computing more and more often these days – the topics of which cover the gamut from the basic educational level – to the strategy and architecture of how a company can best leverage a piece of the cloud. For the introductory discussion, I include a whole section dedicated to benefits [...]

You hear it all the time: “I really don’t care what so-and-so had for lunch”. Or “My life is too boring to talk about online”. I feel bad for these people because they just don’t get Twitter. Maybe this article will shed a little light on what Twitter is actually good for besides broadcasting your eating habits.

A month or so ago, I talked about the much-rumored tablet coming from Apple.  Today, MacRumors has an article, including a mockup and potential feature set, of what such a device may respectively look like and contain.  First, hopefully, that’s not how it would look.  Secondly, I’m rethinking the the desire to include a phone [...]