I had an interesting encounter this past week. I was called into a client meeting to discuss final details on implementing an extranet.

I know I have discussed cloud computing in this column before, but the fact is it just won't go away. Every day I am inundated with news articles and calls from sales people telling me the cloud is where I need to be.

I spent last weekend reconfiguring and rebuilding the search indexes for a client. We indexed something like 3.5 million items, consisting of about three terabytes of data.

We live in uncertain times.

In my experience, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) are either done very well or very poorly. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground.

I get to work with lots of different organizations. I help build collaboration portals, Internet portals, and knowledge management portals. I help integrate their portals with other applications so

I was surprised the other day to see a news blurb that a movie based on Raymond Kurzweil's 2005 book, The Singularity is Near, was due for release this summer. I must assume the eponymous film will be

I first started noticing the little "green" appends to e-mail signatures about two years ago. You've all seen them: "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail." I found them amusing