My wife works for Lighthouse International, a terrific non-profit dedicated to empowering people who are blind and visually impaired. Last week we attended an “experience” developed in partnership with the Lighthouse. Dialog in the Dark is called an exhibition, and is produced by the company that produced the Bodies Exhibition, but calling it
Next Thursday afternoon at 3:30 PM in the Maryland A conference room of the Gaylord National Resort in Washington D.C., Sean Brady and I will be giving our presentation: APP 13 – The Future of Data Delivery Or: How I Learned to Stop Browsing and Love the App.
Ours is the last session on
I don’t like meetings. I feel like meetings often fail to accomplish much beyond getting project team members into the same room once a week. We talk about the work we did the previous week, and we talk about the work we hope to do during the next week, but there are better ways to communicate
Last Wednesday, my wife and I were on day 3 of a 4 day Vermont cheese and maple syrup tour. It was about noon on the hottest day of the year and we were driving down Route 35, about 30 miles from anywhere you’ve ever heard of, when I took a sharp corner and quickly
In light of the recent LinkedIn password debacle, I thought I would share a password secret I’ve been using for a while now, client side password hashing.
Password hashing takes a simple password, runs it through an algorithm and spits out a more complex password. Stanford University researchers developed an algorithm for passwords that
The Consumerization of IT. Bring Your Own Device. Personal Cloud Storage. These buzzwords have sent IT departments the world over into a tizzy. In fact, 37% of all IT related articles written in the last 2 years have been about one of these three concepts. (I totally made that stat up.) We, as IT people,
Since we’re on the topic of Social Networks in a Law Firm…
Social (small s) collaboration is the lifeblood of any project undertaken by human beings. We have evolved to collaborate
I recently stumbled upon an alternative pricing scheme that I instinctively felt was wrong. The details are irrelevant, but I was struck by how vastly different the attorney’s point of view was from my own. So I tried to expand my viewpoint and to see the problem from all sides. I came up with three
My first few posts on this blog were about the coming end of Corporate Information Technology, or the CorpTechPocalypse as I coined it. Nearly 18 months have passed. The world around IT has changed substantially, but like the dinosaurs shortly after the meteor impact, IT itself is still desperately trying to understand its role