Yesterday Microsoft Australia scheduled three new Live Meeting presentations of particular interest to IT Pros – Windows 7 RC, Exchange Server 2010 and Hyper-V vs VMware. There have been a few of these sessions recently, and the content so far has been really good, and definitely worth putting the time aside to attend. The [...]
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Working in an IT department at a school, we get quite a lot of cold advertising – brochures, product pamphlets and of course cold calls from sales guys. It’s irritating, but all part of the ride. Most of the advertising is pretty generic – “Save $$$ on Genuine HP Toner!”, “Why Your Kids Will [...] The concepts and values of reason, evidence and sceptical thinking are pretty important to me. Bear in mind that in this context “sceptical” doesn’t equate to “negative”, “cynical” or “pessimistic”. I’m as guilty of sliding into those dark valleys as the next person but that doesn’t mean one should aspire to do so. No, sceptical [...] In his utopian book “The New Atlantis“, Francis Bacon explores many ideas, one of which is the concept of the “Merchants of Light”. These are special people tasked with trading in the light of understanding – knowledge, experimentation, truth: “For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign [...] |
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