


9/11 Vigilance
On 9/11/2001, I was driving to Muskogee to implement Windows Terminal Services for the Veterans Administration Medical Center. My CFO called my cell and said Tower I had collapsed from […]

12 Reasons Not to Buy iPhone 6
The iPhone 6 announcement is just a few short hours away… Sorry. I dozed off for a second. Oh and iWatch will be announced too, even though watches are one […]

WPC 2014 Insider Perspective
WPC, otherwise known as the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, was again a huge event this year with over 16,000 attendees descending on Washington D.C. July 13-17. This was my 8th WPC […]

2013 Virtual CIO Blog Review
This is the annual report from WordPress.com. Blog posts increased to weekly, page views nearly doubled versus last year, and the most notable referring site was LinkedIn. Obviously, no one got the […]

Virtual CIO Favorite Posts 2013
It’s almost Christmas and I’m alternatingly procrastinating and anxiously looking forward to the holidays. Although the actual year-end statistics will be provided by WordPress soon, the following posts are my favorites […]

Horrific Technology Expectations
Although it’s Halloween, most people have horrific technology expectations all year round. Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified for 3 1/2 hours before the House Energy and Commerce […]

Mavericks Free Myth
The mainstream media has definitely missed the mark concerning Apple’s new Mavericks operating system for the Mac being free. You can read the views from Wired like “Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid […]

Obamacare Fails with Custom Code
The utopian concept of taking care of everyone is a great ideal, but cost and execution are the debate. One of the main business and technical problems is that Obamacare fails with […]

Check The Requirements Forrest
The number one mistake in technology that’s made continuously is failure to check requirements. It reminds me of the line “Stupid is as stupid does” from Forrest Gump. In the […]