Technology can be Impressive

Where I work we talk a lot about increasing the pace.  Acceleration is hard work.  Heck, even fighting inertia is hard work*.

But technology presses on faster and faster, and I wanted to share this piece of news I learned today

Two years ago, watching the Olympics live via the Internet was limited to a single gold medal game of a popular sport. This year, everything from preliminary table tennis matches to team handball will be available both live and on-demand. In all, more than 2,000 hours of live content and 3,000 hours of on-demand video will be available on your PC.

I am impressed.

-- Andy

*My apologies to any physicists who might disapprove of my use of physics terminology.

I am mad at you, ASI

Those of you who know me from work will be shocked at the title of this post. Good. I hope I shock people at ASI as well (someone there must read blogs).

I have spent many years of my life working with iMIS trying to make it work well for my organization and defending it against many in my organization who would be happy to see it gone.

Now they have a new version which has some improvements. But they have a new pricing structure which is just outrageous. It is beyond my comprehension, and way beyond my budget.

I feel like this is all a big game. Get me so dependent on a set of technologies that switching would be difficult, and then jack up the price to stay with what I have.

Optimus Pre-orders!

They are now taking pre-orders for the Optimus Keyboard. Well beyond my price range, but maybe others will replicate the idea.