by Dwayne Phillips I finally did it—I spilled a cup of coffee on my computer (first time ever over 40 years). A few lessons learned. After 40+ years of using my own personal computer, I spilled a cup of coffee on my current Apple MacBook Air. After a couple of hours, the coffee saturated the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Cloud Computing'
Spilled Coffee
October 31st, 2022 · No Comments
Tags: Accountability · Chaos · Cloud Computing · Computing · Failure · Humility · Learning · Mistakes
Working in the Cloud, in 1990
August 29th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Back in 1990, I was part of this cloud computing and remote work—in a manner of speaking. Cloud computing has enabled remote work—as we know it today. I guess the last five words are the key—as we know it today. Some of us have done this type of work for decades. Back […]
Tags: Cloud Computing · Remote Work · Work · Writing
Computing and the TPS Report
July 11th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Though we hate to admit it, the goal of us who work in computing is to produce a TPS report. The “TPS Report” is the butt of all office jokes. It is meaningless paperwork that serves no purpose. For a full explanation, see the Wikipedia page on it. Those of us who […]
Tags: Cloud Computing · Communication · Computing · Jobs · Work
(too) Big Data
March 28th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Big data? What we usually do is automate work on data that is too big to work manually. I used to work on a project where the project leader would tell people, “We work big data.” I was frequently asked (later after the project leader left the room), “What is big data?” […]
Tags: Cloud Computing · Computing · Data Science · Work
Is the Light Bulb On or Off?
March 21st, 2022 · No Comments
By Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we need to remind ourselves what it is that computers can and cannot do. Computers are taking over the world. Well, maybe not. Let’s recall what a computer can do. A computer can tell if a light bulb is on or off. That’s about it folks. Nothing more. Everything else is […]
Tags: Cloud Computing · Computing · General Systems Thinking · Learning · Software · Teaching · Technology
The CRUD Systems
December 23rd, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Once stripped of all the extras, the great majority of computers systems we use are CRUD. And that is okay. We invented computers to compute, i.e., to calculate things. 1+2=3 and so on. We also learned that computers are good at storing information. We put information in the computer, it is there. […]
Tags: Change · Cloud Computing · Computing · Writing
The New Economy, The New Technologists
January 7th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Productivity leaps are possible and happening. I am sorry to write that fortunes can be made while employing just a few persons. I recently learned of a game called Among Us from a company called InnerSloth. In November of 2020, there were 500 million people playing the game. InnerSloth has four employees. […]
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