Talking Out Loud with ASB

Home Network Overhaul 2010 – Conclusion

Logik! — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:11:13 GMT

This is the sixth part in a series of articles tracking the implementation of virtualization on my home network . Planning for the project originally started at the end of 2007, with some equipment purchased in early 2008, but the bulk of the work...(read more)

Charting the Right Course: The IT Manager’s First 90 Days

Logik! — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:50:00 GMT

Starting a new position is always an interesting challenge, especially if you have a leadership role. It should go without saying that it is very important to start things off on the right foot. While it is possible to recover from all but the most egregious...(read more)

Home Network Overhaul 2010 – Part 2

Logik! — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:54:47 GMT

It has been a very productive year so far, as it pertains to my ongoing Home Network Re-Engineering Project . In fact, the past few days have been especially productive. I was finally able to fix the hardware problem that prevented my old domain...(read more)

Contributing in Online Business Communities

Logik! — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:15:02 GMT

Online communities are an excellent way for people to interact with other individuals who they can help or who can help them. For business and technology professionals, they also represent a way keep an eye on trends and thought leadership within...(read more)

Is Google over-extending itself?

Logik! — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:42:41 GMT

Google is in the news quite a bit, lately, but not all of that publicity is good… Google lists $350 fee for early Nexus One returns Update: Google may pull out of China because of cyber attacks Nexus One fiasco continues for Google Contrary to popular...(read more)

Home Network Overhaul 2010

Logik! — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:07:07 GMT

For the first time in over a decade, my home network saw no major improvements for almost 2 years. Let’s just say that the past few years have been interesting… From March 2008 until December 2009, several major undertakings that I had planned for...(read more)

Lessons from 2009: Functionality still trumps Security

Logik! — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:34:06 GMT

Yes, you heard me correctly… We still think about personal and corporate security only as an afterthought. Despite all the regulatory and industry compliance that has been created and updated in the past 15 years, as we close out this decade, we are hardly...(read more)

The End of an Era

Logik! — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:34:25 GMT

It’s about time – at least, that’s what my wife will say when she learns that I have finally ditched the last remnants of a stockpile of old computer parts that I was hanging onto. These are parts which were actually dead at the beginning of this decade,...(read more)

Getting Real Benefit from your IT Department

Logik! — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:03:55 GMT

Earlier this month, I came across a provocative article in ComputerWorld that outlined some of the reasons why many organizations get inconsistent results from their Information Technology departments. Later, this article was made the source of...(read more)

What Software as a Service Really Provides

Logik! — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:27:36 GMT

Software as a Service, or SaaS , is seen and marketed as a way to remove or reduce the complexities and cost associated with local enterprise software deployments, especially where such software has a desktop installation facet to it. As is typical with...(read more)

Why Businesses Standardize on Technology

Logik! — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:14:00 GMT

The role of an organization’s technologists are to protect the technology and information assets of the company, while facilitating productivity to move the business forward. This is always a balancing act, as no technology department that I am aware of today has anything resembling an unlimited budget. ...(read more)

Where Simplicity and Technology Really Intersect

Logik! — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:07:15 GMT

The prevailing wisdom says that technology is supposed to be getting simpler all the time. This belief appears to be pervasive with many corporate leaders who insist that there should be less of a need for expensive technology experts in an organization...(read more)

Searching for Return on Security Investments

Logik! — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:45:00 GMT

There are several major challenges to the successful implementation of good information security in many organizations today. It is not because business owners do not think that security is important. No, the issues exist because they do not...(read more)

My Resume Cloud

Logik! — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:04:54 GMT

Today, I came across a very interesting tool for generating a word cloud – basically, a visual representation of the frequency of words in a block of text, just as you might find in the tag cloud of a blog. I was first made aware of this tool from...(read more)

More Technology Goodness Today

Logik! — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:11:12 GMT

There were some excellent technology releases today. The two I care about the most are Microsoft Windows 7 , and the latest update of XeeSM from Xeequa . I expect Windows 7 to be big, big, big in the next few months, and I’ll be dedicating a solid...(read more)