I’m writing this because I once again stumbled over some blogs of technophile folks who pride themselves with having successfully jailbroken Apple’s iPhone.
People buy iPhones because they somehow fell in love with that little device that could be out of a Star Trek movie. Then they quickly discover that the iPhone is just a pretty [...]

In my freshly started little series of ‘recycled email correspondence’, here is a little piece on how you should behave in what I call a paper mill environment, meaning larger companies or bureaucratic organizations like the United Nations, for example. The advice that I give you in this little article won’t get you far in [...]

All Free and Open Source zealots on this planet will burn me at the stake for this, but I do not have any ideological issues with proprietary and closed source software, and I find it perfectly acceptable when developers want to get paid for their work.
I pay the hardware engineers at Intel when I buy [...]