About to FAIL – Fiscal, Monetary, and Regulatory Policies and what the heck is happening on Wall Street

About to FAIL, originally uploaded by jeffmcneill. Confused I have been confused, and quite annoyed as well, by this whole bailout fiasco. My sense was don’t do it. Now I am reaching the conclusion that it needs to be done (but not how it was done). Thereby we may actually have doomed ourselves, rather than [...]

Confessions of a Network Administrator – Stop Creating Bad Policies – Outsource Yourself

Several years ago I successfully convinced a company with hundreds of productive employees to have everyone change their network password every 90 days, and to enforce the use of complex passwords. The network accounts controlled access to email, file and print, and indeed their very computer. Naturally, some users were enraged. I thought that I [...]