Personal Information Portal - a.k.a Blog
Oct 12, 2007
You can either follow your fears or be led by your passions.
Dec 5, 2006
- Oh, God! What is a million years for you?
- A tiny moment
- Oh, God! What is a million dollars for you?
- A penny
- Please, God, give me that penny
- Just a moment...
Nov 18, 2006
"We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy."
Dennis Prager
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About me: I design information technology solutions for large corporations. You can find some articles and projects on my site. Some of them I have published in various places, but this site is the official home for all my work. Should you find it interesting please feel free to send me your opinions.
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26 Jan 2007 12:12:00 CST
Why IP telephony is so attractive? Does it provides better sound quality? Not in my experience – echo, speed variations and other digital effects always remind me that I am talking over the Net. Is it cheaper? Not really. Many cell phone providers give you free weekends and nights. If you get right package you can talk almost for free. Finally, you cannot use any IP telephone during blackout – and this is the time when you really need telephone.
What is the best thing about IP telephone? No dialing! Skype, Jajah, COMfi and others allow you to create phone book and dial anyone with only one click. Not ten, not seven - one. Is not it pathetic? We are so lazy, that we are willing to pay higher price for less reliability and quality in exchange to simple convenience – fewer keystrokes.
17 Nov 2006 22:45:00 CST
When you hear name Logitech you immediately think “Mouse”. Couple years ago the pioneer “handy” added to its portfolio rather unique device: Logitech io™ Digital Writing System. Actually, it is a pen – probably the smartest gadget I ever owned.
It may look and feel a little thicker than your every day ordinary pen, but
it memorizes everything you write or draw. The pen has embedded optical device
and memory that allows you to store about 40 pages that can be downloaded to PC
through USB connector. If you think it sounds too good to be true, then you
probably right – you still have to use special paper to make it work, but
special notepads cost no more than their high-quality plain paper brothers. Logitech
provides software that helps you organize downloaded pages, recognize
handwritten text and convert it to a document, e-mail or calendar entry. Using
special notepads you can even compose e-mail messages that will be submitted
automatically as soon as you download them to PC.
Apr 28, 2008
This is a very small but useful application that helps you to manage your time. It does not require special skills and it is very easy to use. It requires .NET 3.0 Framework or Windows Vista.
Books
If you like my articles, then I recommend you also to read those books. Actually, you may like those books even if you do not like my articles:
"More Sex Is Safer Sex"
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The book also called "The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics" that is too bold considering not every theory is very well argued. However, this book is another example of independent thinking and analysis.
"Process Mapping, Process Improvement and Process Management"
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I have met Dan Madison at the Business Process Management conference in New York on November 2005. He has made a presentation about one particular process improvement project that was not related to any Information Technologies whatsoever. If you believe in importance of business processes, then I recommend you to have this book handy.
"Swarm Intelligence"
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This book starts with the chapter called "Models and Concept of Life and Intelligence" - that can be a short summary of the book contents. As authors state in the beginning, the book is not a list of facts and all the research described here is ongoing. More than 400 pages of collected ideas of emerging behavior were the most profound technical reading I ever experienced.
"Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering"
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The book can also be named as "Everything you always wanted to know about System Engineering but were afraid to ask". It contains 55 facts and ten myths. For each them author provides detailed discussion, controversy, sources and references.
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