Al Hoang

JonBert posts some of his thoughts on what Apple could do to provide better customer service. Most of the ideas I don’t disagree with..
JonBert’s Blog

I’ve been trying to use the URLs to ping feature on this weblog but it seems that I’m not actually URL pinging anyone. Is this thing even working? *sigh* I love technology sometimes.

Got this story from here. Seems the GNU servers have been cracked by hackers since March…. ouch.
I bet a code audit is now running to make sure nothing malicious has been inserted into the GNU code however that’s got to make you wonder since so many organizations use GNU tools. Good luck auditing it. My experience with looking through some of the code of the FSF is it’s a damned tangled mess to sort through. I’m not sure I recommend it as good reading for learning how to write clear code but the code does work (on lots of platforms too).

Yet another one from “JWZ”. Whales getting caught in the act. What did the scientists have to observe about whale flatulence? “It stinks.”

Got this one from BoingBoing. Seems some enterprising bloggers used their PhotoPhones and send pictures of the Northeast Blackout. Very interesting. I’d find it amusing it the cellular communications infrastructure went splat and all these bloggers all of a sudden found out ALL of their electronic communications methods were useless.

There’s a great article on the fact that oursourcing IT jobs to India (or wherever for that matter) won’t solve the basic problem of Timezone differences. This definitely makes sense. However… the ball has already been rolled to move quite a bit of IT work to India and it’ll take time for the management to get a clue about timezone coordination problems. Ah well.

I love this quote from the above article:
” Heck, if it saves money, why didn’t you outsource management to India?”