Honda is in cahoots with Apple

As I finally get my brand spanking new shiny Acura TSX, I am itching to try out the iPod interface.  My biggest worry: will this thing recognize and display Russian characters that I use for my songs from the Motherland?  I even took my iPod and its USB cable with me to go pick up [...]

It’s a miracle — I bought a car!!!

After probably close to 2 years of agonizing over my next vehicle, it has finally happened — I bought a car!  As it was bound to happen, the car I bought has very little to do with any of the cars that I was researching, evaluating, selecting and otherwise obsessing over during the last 1 or 2 years.  [...]

The importance of paying attention to details

As a professional consultant, selling the services of my company, I set expectations with my clients every single day, and I set them pretty damn high. My clients pay high prices for my services and services of my team, they need to know what differentiates us from other consultants/contractors who can be gotten for a [...]

Zoho integrates Google authentication

Zoho, an online suite of applications, now allows you to login using your Google account.  Zoho is fairly recent discovery for me, but I’m very much in love with it.  I was already using Google Docs a little bit, but as of late have been switching to Zoho.  There’s something about the Zoho interface that [...]

A surplus Lotusphere backpack anyone?

When I first saw this backpack from a distance, I thought this was a fellow Lotusphere attendee taking in the sights and sounds of Vegas.  Imagine my surprise when I got closer and saw a “Microsoft” logo on it.  When did Microsoft stared bleeding yellow?  I wonder if the marketing folks at Microsoft whodecided to sponsor [...]

Notes 8 helps a Park District to stay with Notes

For a change, a bit of good news from the Lotus vs. Microsoft front.  It looks like it took 3 months but my efforts that I described in this article (Deciding to Migrate) have finally paid off.  The client decided to stay with Lotus Notes.  They renewed their Lotus licenses for another year and want [...]