Recently I answered a question regarding why organizations use metrics, and if they [the organization] check to see if it already exists. The requester also wanted to know who measures the life-cycle of the metric. Who in the organization decides what is measured, and who controls the definition of the metric.

How does one go about measuring the effectiveness of metrics? Who watches the watcher?

You can read the original Answer request on LinkedIn.

The following article was originally posted at EdgeBlog here: http://www.edgeblog.net/2008/windows-is-better-than-unixlinux-sometimes/

Well, I agreed with Bill’s last article, until I read the part that said “Windows is better than Unix/Linux.”

Oh wait, that was the first sentence.

Now, if Bill had said “Windows is better than Unix/Linux, sometimes.” or perhaps if he had stretched and written “Windows is better than Unix/Linux — most of the time,” I may have agreed entirely.

This was originally posted over at EdgeBlog.

Recently, I was evaluating ISP’s for my hosting requirements. If you take a gander at 1-and-1, or most of the providers on the Personal Colocation site (and almost every other hosting provider in the world) they apportion your bandwidth in GB per month. Exactly what does this mean to people that are more familiar with buying bandwidth by the circuit? Exactly how much bandwidth is 500GB/Month? Is that equivalent to a T1 (DS1 or E1 for you euros?)

I’ve added a new gallery; installing laminate flooring. The gallery is combined with an article from over at Gadget Workshop: Ultimate Tool for installing laminate flooring.

Enjoy!

Hello and welcome! Here you will find musings, and small notes and things that I’d like to keep around.

Enjoy!