Category Archives: Geek

Friday Five – March 25, 2011

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Derek

#1 – AP Stylebook Finally Changes “e-mail” to “email” [Mashable] The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – March 4, 2011

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Derek

#1 – Videos from Design of Everyday Things [Don Norman's jnd.org] One upon a time, many years ago — 1994 to be precise — The Voyager Company produced a delightful CD-ROM that included copies of several of my books (“Design … Continue reading →

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AIIM ECM Master Certification Achieved

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Derek

Back in September, I went to Toronto for a week to take on the AIIM Enterprise Content Management certificate program. I was particularly interested in the program because it took a comprehensive look at all the various facets of ECM, … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – February 4, 2011

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Derek

This week… a little bit of IT in the world of politics and a little bit of politics in the world of IT… #1 – How Egypt Turned Off the Internet [Gizmodo] “Under Egyptian legislation the authorities have the right … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – January 28, 2011

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Derek

Here are this week’s five interesting articles… #1 – Microsoft UC Team Blog: Don’t Be the Last Company on Notes [Ed Brill] On behalf of 50,000 organizations worldwide, let me say this in the most professional way possible: Don’t insult … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – January 21, 2011

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Derek

Here are this week’s five interesting articles, handpicked by yours truly. A History of Enterprise IT in One Slide [AIIM Digital Landfill] I love a good graphic, and this one is a pretty clear illustration of computing history. Part 1 … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – January 14, 2011

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Derek

I also blog at work (internally) and resolved to post more frequently this year.  I figured the best way to keep that up was to institute a regular weekly feature which I’m calling the Friday Five – five technology-related articles … Continue reading →

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It’s indubitably a serendipity

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Derek

This may be the most unintelligible comment spam ever… Starting, they desideratum to be taught that filing lawsuits is not the course of sortie to accomplish to a deterrent piracy. Extent than, it’s to earn something mastery than piracy. Like … Continue reading →

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Do not adjust your set

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Derek

I’m upgrading Punaro.com to WordPress 3.0 and trying out the new default theme, which is fairly configurable. This place needed an update, so this is one way to force myself to do it. The WordPress 3.0 upgrade was the most … Continue reading →

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Ten years of Punaro.com

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Derek

June 11th marked the 10th anniversary of Punaro.com. In actuality, this site has existed since my freshman year at RIT in 1995. The web was brand new at that point, and my roommate geeks and I were competing to see … Continue reading →

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