Please Check Back Again Soon
I received a bright yellow letter in the mail today from Comcast. It was a “Pending Disconnect Notice”. Comcast is my high-speed Internet provider and technically they have been quite good. The customer service is another story. After looking in Quicken, I found that I had somehow made the payment late. I assume the notice […]
IBM Happenings: November 2004
Sorry I am a bit late with the IBM Happenings posting for November. I would appreciate any feedback from readers as to whether these news postings are useful. It is not a huge effort to pull them together — but not trivial either. As usual, there was a lot going on at IBM during the […]
Five Days?
I have written a number of stories in patrickWeb about web services, a set of standards that allow for web sites to send messages to each other. If you have any doubts about whether this is needed, consider the following. I went to American Express’s MemberMiles site to move some miles to Continental Airlines. The […]
Weekends On Demand
On Demand is a really important concept for institutions of all kinds — businesses, hospitals, universities, and governments. With more people connected more often in more places with more devices, their expectations are growing by the day. On Demand simply means to make the data and processes available to all constituencies (for which they are […]
Information Technology — a high level view
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