It's a fact of life: People sleep in airports. Terminal design discourages the practice, but all that does is ruin the quality of sleep for the passengers. Is it time to install sleep pods in airports?
Somali courtship used to be an elaborate process in which clan elders decided on pairings and the prospective groom was required to pay a hefty bride price to his betrothed's father. But now, with dirt cheap cell phones available everywhere couples can elope much more easily.
Facebook on the Nintendo DSi, Facebook on the Microsoft Xbox 360. Now Facebook on the Sony PS3. Where is this demand for Facebook on gaming consoles coming from?
Your security awareness program isn't working and the solution is NOT another poster in the lunch room about the dangers of opening emails from people you don't know. A better idea: skip prevention awareness and instead focus your staff on being better "net cops".
One of the nice things about writing a column every week is that I don't often have to tackle the really big issues -- such as why Unix is still the best OS or which big company is buying which other big company and how this is going to affect all of us. Instead, I can hone in on an issue as small and personal as how you loop through a sequence of values in a script. Speaking of looping, I've just learned (and then implemented) a new trick.
From now until January 15, 2010, Google will offer free wireless access in more than 45 different airports around the US, and in all Virgin American flights. The airports, including my home town of St.
With his twist on Windows 7 upgrades, bala0302 is the winner of this week's contest. See the winning caption, along with some very funny honorable mentions and Phil Johnson's original cartoon.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.
