Critical Updates

My Identity as an Engineer

As some of you know, I have a degree in Electrical Engineering. Apparently we engineers have a slightly different way of looking at things. Let's just say there is something about engineers that gives us our own identity. I'm just not sure what it is. Can someone explain it to me?

Check out this video.

Welcome Clayton Donley to the Blogosphere!

A big welcome to Clayton Donley who has just decided to join the blogosphere! Of course, Clayton and I go way back to OctetString days. Clayton now is top dog for directory services at Oracle and you can expect some interesting posts from now on!

His first post responds to Dave Kearn's recent article about the two-billion user benchmark achieved with Oracle Internet Directory.

iTunes Limits Accounts to 5

TUAW, The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that iTunes has limited the number of accounts you can use to sync purchases on your iPod to 5.

Now, that may seem reasonable until you also find out that Apple has no way to allow you to consolidate purchases from many accounts into one. I found this out when I wanted to transfer purchases from my 2nd generation ipod to my new ipod touch and called Apple support directly. This is now a particularly tricky problem since most of those e-mail addresses no longer work.

Having moved around a fair bit, and switched ISPs, my address has changed several times. It looks like I'm going to be one of those customers penalized for having too many identities and having made too many purchases.

On Neologism

A hilareous speech, entitled "ALL YOUR TEXT ARE BELONG TO US" at the PodTech conference by Dictionary Evangelist, Erin McKean.

Hmmm..are we technologists prone to using neologisms or what?