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31 December 2009

What A Long, Strange Trip 2009 Has Been

Filed under: apple, check point, phoneboy, social networking - 31 Dec 2009

The beginning of 2009 had a rocky start for me. My employment situation was up in the air thanks to my long-time employer Nokia selling off the Security Appliance Business I worked in to …

21 December 2009

Inbox Liquidation, Part 52

It must be time to clean out the old inbox once again, which this time also includes random observations and other things that aren’t necessarily in my inbox.

Google Chrome: I’ve started using Google Chrome on my Macs and Linux …

1 December 2009

Not All Social Networking Services Are Created Equal, Quit Treating Them That Way.

Filed under: social networking - 01 Dec 2009

Over the years, I’ve used a number of social networking services. Not just services like Twitter and Facebook, but things called bulletin board systems that you accessed via dialup modems. It wasn’t as cool, as mainstream, or even as technically …

1 November 2009

Not Following The Crowd

Filed under: social networking, twitter - 01 Nov 2009

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Much has been made over Twitter’s new “lists” feature they have been rolling out over the past several weeks. …

The Dangers of Social Networking

Filed under: blogging, people, security, social networking, software, twitter - 01 Nov 2009

This past week, I’ve been on the Check Point Security Tour up in Western Canada talking about the Dangers of Social Networking. The basis of the presentation was actually something I gave to Check Point employees in Redwood City back …

6 September 2009

Twitter and The Mix Tape

Filed under: music, social networking, twitter - 06 Sep 2009

Back when I was in college, I had a stereo with a dual cassette recorder and a CD player. This was fairly common back in the early 1990s. The king of “personal music devices” back …

12 August 2009

Gil Shwed Opens NASDAQ

Filed under: business, check point - 12 Aug 2009

Photo © Copyright 2009, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.

Last week, when I was down in Redwood City in the Check

14 July 2009

Apps I Miss on Nokia Handsets

Filed under: iphone, mobile phones, nokia, software, twitter - 14 Jul 2009

I’ve had my Apple iPhone 3GS about a week now. While I’ve been generally happy with the experience so far, there are a few apps that don’t have quite have an analog …

17 June 2009

What Is The Secret of Social Networking?

Filed under: Services, social networking, twitter - 17 Jun 2009

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If you’ve seen the movie Soylent Green, or even if you haven’t, you know what the punchline to this story is. Even if you do …

15 May 2009

Finding Check Point Needles in the Twitter Haystack

Filed under: check point, twitter - 15 May 2009

One of my “jobs” is to monitor for mentions of Check Point Software on Twitter. This is a lot harder than it seems, even with the ability to search with Tweetdeck, Seesmic Desktop, or even the …

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