Month: June 2007
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Catching Up
This year will be my fifth season playing golf, the fourth for my wife. Many of my friends suffer the complaints from their spouses as a result of spending weekends away from the family on…
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In the future …
My first visions of the future came in the late 50’s and 60’s. They were often space / technology oriented; predictions such as flying cars, apartment buildings in the clouds, robot maids, travel to other…
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Anti-Social Computing
The BBC News article FBI tries to fight zombie hordes reports: “The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals … “Once hijacked, PCs can…
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SOA and Web services
ZapThink has returned to the conclusion that Web services and Services Oriented Architectures are different things [1]: Perhaps the most aggravating of misperceptions surrounding Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the marketplace is that SOA and Web…
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Performance Maintenance Drugs
The question of testing for Performance Enhancing Drugs has come up in many sports and it has recently come up again in the world of golf. The usual response of the professional seems to be…
