IT bosses are storage addicts who can't stop themselves

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L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com)

L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com) 02/19/2004 08:10 AM
USATODAY.com - Traffic bottlenecks across the nation have increased by 40% since 1999, a new report shows. Despite that, delays are being reduced at some of the nation's most infamous chokepoints such as Albuquerque's "Big I" and Chicago's "Hillside Strangler."

Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
Ads D Squared Solutions has agreed to
stop smothering computer users

Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
Ads D Squared Solutions has agreed to
stop smothering computer users 07/30/2004 07:13 PM
AVN Online Jul 30 2004 10:51PM GMT

Fix for Japan Pop-Culture Addicts

Fix for Japan Pop-Culture Addicts 04/12/2004 04:56 AM
Finding more than hentai, anime DVDs and headbands on J-List.com, visitors can get some insight about why Japanese pop culture is so delightfully wacky. Wired News interviews J-List proprieter Peter Payne. By Xeni Jardin.

Feeding the Google Addicts

Feeding the Google Addicts 04/23/2004 06:59 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Apr 23 2004 11:14PM GMT

Sims 2 plays with life addicts

Sims 2 plays with life addicts 09/27/2004 02:57 AM
The Sims 2 adds DNA into the mix and much more realistic 3D graphics, which gives the game an eerie feeling of reality.

Children of addicts 'let down'

Children of addicts 'let down' 05/11/2004 06:31 AM
Social workers criticise the government for what they say is a failure to support the children of drug addicts.

Care call to help convict addicts

Care call to help convict addicts 05/25/2004 08:58 PM
A think tank calls for an end to the "postcode lottery" of drug treatment for persistent offenders.

Now Even Fake People Can Be Game Addicts

Now Even Fake People Can Be Game Addicts 02/16/2004 02:46 PM

The Russian Nesting Doll of Games: The implications here make my head hurt, but it's still pretty funny.

The plug-in from Simslice, called Slice City, lets the Sims in the game play a video game in which they create mini cities. So, along with the many things that Sims can be instructed to do — such as going to work, playing guitar, cooking, socializing and dating — they can blow endless hours creating small urban environments.

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O2 puts the squeeze on push-email
addicts

O2 puts the squeeze on push-email
addicts 01/11/2004 08:13 PM
Hooks you with freebies, but then ...

Internet addicts also suffer withdrawal
symptoms!

Internet addicts also suffer withdrawal
symptoms! 09/24/2004 12:05 PM
Webindia123 Sep 24 2004 3:24PM GMT

Server move pending, IRC addicts grieve

Server move pending, IRC addicts grieve 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
We'll be moving a server to our new datacenter at 1pm CST.

Web addicts escape army conscription
(Reuters)

Web addicts escape army conscription
(Reuters) 08/03/2004 09:23 AM
Reuters - A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the Finnish Defence Forces says.

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military 08/03/2004 04:37 PM
Too depressed to shoot anything

Concerning Naked Lunch Part 4: Drugs and
Addicts

Concerning Naked Lunch Part 4: Drugs and
Addicts 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
This is the 4th in a series of essays about the novel Naked Lunch.  This essay will deal with the issue of Drugs and their portrayal in the novel.

Billboards Target Christian Porn Addicts
(AP)

Billboards Target Christian Porn Addicts
(AP) 02/12/2004 03:39 PM
AP - Chocolates are always nice, and a diamond necklace would be delightful. But a Dallas-based ministry thinks it has a better idea for Valentine's Day.

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
Internet addicts sent home from Finnish military .. depressed

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Police to focus on ridding KL of drug
addicts - Dell

Police to focus on ridding KL of drug
addicts - Dell 01/22/2004 05:07 PM
Utusan Online Jan 22 2004 8:29PM GMT

Police To Focus On Ridding KL Of Drug
Addicts - Dell

Police To Focus On Ridding KL Of Drug
Addicts - Dell 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Bernama Jan 22 2004 6:26AM GMT

Website helps addicts get lives back on
track

Website helps addicts get lives back on
track 09/11/2004 07:06 AM
Miami.com - Sat Sep 11, 08:03 am GMT

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register 08/04/2004 09:30 AM

Addicts Are Overlooked in Gambling Boom
(Los Angeles Times)

Addicts Are Overlooked in Gambling Boom
(Los Angeles Times) 08/03/2004 05:35 AM
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — A major expansion of casinos, the lottery, racetracks and card rooms is making California one of the nation's gambling giants. Yet one result of this betting binge has received scant attention from public officials: pathological addiction.

TunesTracker Launches New Features for
iTunes Music Store Addicts

TunesTracker Launches New Features for
iTunes Music Store Addicts 03/14/2005 05:03 PM
After registering with TunesTracker, users can enter the names of up to 50 of their favorite musical artists, composers, and songs. In addition to searching by artist name, you can now receive alertswhen the iTunes Music Store adds songs written by favorite composers, or even when a song with a particular title is added. TunesTracker was created by Kevin Savetz, who was also the co-founder of FreeAfterRebate.info, a shopping Web site devoted to free-after-rebate deals.

South Korea Grapples with Online Gaming
Addicts (Reuters)

South Korea Grapples with Online Gaming
Addicts (Reuters) 01/11/2004 09:25 PM
Reuters - In the online computer game "Lineage," 12-year-old South Korean Lim is a hero, earning fame and fortune in a fantasy world where a flashing blade and well-timed spell can keep him out of trouble.

Finnish army sends internet addicts home
to 'grow up'

Finnish army sends internet addicts home
to 'grow up' 08/04/2004 09:56 PM
BBC Aug 5 2004 1:57AM GMT

Snack Addicts Offer Tips for Super Bowl
Snacking

Snack Addicts Offer Tips for Super Bowl
Snacking 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Taquitos.net's snack reviewers have rated more than 2400 different snacks, and they've compiled a list of tips to help maximize your Super Bowl snacking experience. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Factors for Successful Storage
Integration in Consumer Devices Revealed
During Storage Visions 2005 Conference

Factors for Successful Storage
Integration in Consumer Devices Revealed
During Storage Visions 2005 Conference 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Market Wire Dec 13 2004 8:30PM GMT

Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You

Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You 09/12/2004 11:33 PM
Armed with advanced server-side technologies like ASP.NET and powerful database servers such as Microsoft® SQL Server™, developers are able to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites with incredible ease. But the power of ASP.NET and SQL can easily be used against you by hackers mounting an all-too-common class of attack—the SQL injection attack. The basic idea behind a SQL injection attack is this: you create a Web page that allows the user to enter text into a textbox that will be used to execute a query against a database. A hacker enters a malformed SQL statement into the textbox that changes the nature of the query so that it can be used to break into, alter, or damage the back-end database. How is this possible? Let me illustrate with an example.

Disaster Recovery, SAN Storage Tools
Headline Storage Show

Disaster Recovery, SAN Storage Tools
Headline Storage Show 04/12/2005 04:09 PM
Data protection products also debut at Storage Networking World.

Maximum Storage: REDEFINED - The
TeraStorus Provides 6 Terabytes of SATA
Storage for Under $14k

Maximum Storage: REDEFINED - The
TeraStorus Provides 6 Terabytes of SATA
Storage for Under $14k 05/31/2004 02:11 PM
Aberdeen revolutionized the backup storage community by introducing the 2TB "Backup Monster" for under $5000. Just a few months later Aberdeen presents the most robust all-inclusive storage and backup server to date, the Aberdeen Stirling X524. The 5U "TeraStorus" is the goliath of backup storage servers with 24 hot-swap hard disk drive bays suitable for 6TB of complete data storage. [PRWEB Apr 21, 2004]

iSCSI-Based IP Storage Area Network (IP
SAN) Changes the Face of Storage
Management at the University of
California’s Berkeley Campus

iSCSI-Based IP Storage Area Network (IP
SAN) Changes the Face of Storage
Management at the University of
California’s Berkeley Campus 06/06/2005 12:14 AM
Tiered Computer Network Storage Approach Results in Dramatic Cost Savings and Simplified Storage Allocation for Haas School of Business [PRWEB May 18, 2005]

Former Mitsubishi bosses arrested

Former Mitsubishi bosses arrested 05/06/2004 06:00 AM
Japanese police arrest seven former Mitsubishi executives on suspicion of falsifying reports into a fatal fault.

Nortel, Cisco bosses met

Nortel, Cisco bosses met 06/21/2004 07:27 AM
Globe and Mail Jun 21 2004 11:45AM GMT

Bosses keep an eye on work computers |

Bosses keep an eye on work computers | 01/18/2004 02:46 PM
news.com.au Jan 18 2004 5:05PM GMT

Blogs, bosses and bucks

Blogs, bosses and bucks 06/25/2004 08:31 PM
I had a good time yesterday at Supernova, but it seemed that one of the points I made on our panel caused some consternation among some listeners, so let's look at it.

I had heard a certain amount of what I thought was wildly overoptimistic forecasting of the widespread adoption of blogging as a tool in corporate America. For instance, Tim Bray said: "Any corporation that doesn't do this in the future is going to be playing catch-up. They can use the technology to make the enterprise provide a more human face to world." (I copied this quote from a trade journal article on the conference and promptly lost the URL. Sorry. I wasn't taking notes myself so if it's wrong, apologies in advance.)

I agree with Tim and the other optimists that blogging can give enterprises a more human face. But will they let it? What I said yesterday is that I thought the successes to date in public blogging by software developers at places like Microsoft and Sun weren't likely to be duplicated in other, more traditional corporations any time soon. Software professionals are relatively unique in feeling that (a) their talents are in demand and (b) if they get fired from one job they can probably (except maybe at the very bottom of an economic cycle) get another one pretty easily. In other words, they feel more empowered to spout off on their blogs without fearing for their livelihood than the typical American worker does.

I'm not sure why, but Tim seemed to take this comment to mean that I thought that people in other fields -- I think he mentioned construction, it's hard to remember -- wouldn't succeed as bloggers because they're "not as interesting." Of course, that's not what I said, and it's precisely the opposite of what I think. Everyone has stories to tell, and everyone's stories are worth telling: that's a credo of the digital storytelling movement that I've been involved with for a decade now.

The stories that programmers are telling in the current explosion of blogs have given their work a vital new visibility; as developers tell their stories to each other, creating a pool of technical, practical and philosophical knowledge, they are also giving the public a new and fascinating window onto their discipline. (I'm as aware of this as anyone -- my work on my book is infinitely easier thanks to the profusion of programming blogs.)

Do I think it would be a Good Thing for this pattern to be duplicated in other fields? Of course -- and it's happening in some, predictably in those areas where individual professionals have a tradition of independence (the legal world, academia).

But the utopian vision of blogging somehow flattening corporate hierarchies and allowing Cluetrain-like voices of authenticity to trumpet forth from every Fortune 500 headquarters? Maybe it's possible on the sort of time scale that Supernova keynoter Tom Malone talked about -- from hunter-gatherers to agriculture, that sort of thing. But I don't think it's going to happen in our lifetimes.

I'm sorry to be the pessimist at the party. But for large numbers of workers in America, particularly those at big companies, the dominant fact of life remains don't piss off your boss. And, in an era of health-insurance lock-in and easy outsourcing and offshoring, many U.S. workers remain doubtful that they can simply waltz into a new job should their activities displease the current hierarchy to which they report. So the odds of them feeling at ease publishing honest Web sites about their work lives are extremely poor. The blogs you're going to see from within most traditional companies will be either uninformative snoozes or desperate attempts at butt-covering and -kissing. Not because people don't have great stories to tell -- but because telling the truth has too high a cost.

Someone at Supernova got up and said that he worked in investment banking and thought it was a field that was ripe for blogging. No doubt! I'm assuming that your typical investment banker has managed to sock away some private unemployment insurance cash (also known in some industries as "fuck you" money, something Dick Cheney apparently has in abundance).

For those with such resources, blog on! For those lucky enough to work for a company that says "blog on" and means it, cherish your luck. But for most of the rest of the working population, the blogging revolution will be happening in some other office.

Bosses keep an eye on work computers

Bosses keep an eye on work computers 01/18/2004 03:49 PM
news.com.au Jan 18 2004 6:49PM GMT

Bosses playing Gotcha!

Bosses playing Gotcha! 12/30/2004 02:47 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 30 2004 5:41PM GMT

Brit bosses get tough on Net abuse

Brit bosses get tough on Net abuse 11/10/2003 11:09 PM
Carrot and stick. Without the carrot

Bosses to track workers via their
mobiles

Bosses to track workers via their
mobiles 09/22/2004 02:53 PM
ZDNet UK Sep 22 2004 6:25PM GMT

Police quit jobs over bad bosses

Police quit jobs over bad bosses 05/06/2004 08:14 PM
Four-fifths of police officers who quit their job blame poor management for their choice, a Home Office study finds.
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