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Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (The Sequel)

01/27/20 Back in October, 2019, I shared my love of both Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/) devices and the Pi-Hole (https://pi-hole.net/) software; and showed how—with a …

Old Tech, New Name?

01/17/20 The marketing machines of today often paint new technologies to suggest they’re the best thing since sliced bread. Sometimes though, the new products are just a rehash of …

3 Ways AI Is Changing Social Media

01/02/20 Social media has become a mainstream part of our lives. Day in and day out, most of us are using social media to do micro-blogging, interact with family, share photos, cap…

Foresight is 2020: My Predictions For the Coming Year

12/30/19 The year is winding down, and—while it’s not something I do every year—I thought I’d take a moment to look ahead and make a few educated guesses about what the coming mont…

Unplanned Obsolescence

12/18/19 As we head into the new year, people will once again start quoting a popular list describing the things kids starting college in 2020 will never personally experience. Exa…

Don’t Let Technical Debt Be Your Company’s Subprime Loan: Mapping Your Way to Better Software

12/16/19 I was in the pub recently for the local quiz and afterwards, I got talking to someone I hadn’t seen for a while. After a few minutes, we started discussing a certain app h…

3 Strategies for Managing the IT Impact of Classroom Technology

12/10/19 Forty-eight percent of students currently use a computer in school, while 42% use a smartphone, according to a recent report by Cambridge International. These technologies…

Army Network Optimization Could Help Training

11/26/19 The U.S. Army is undergoing a major technology shift affecting how soldiers prepare for battle. Core to the Army’s modernization effort is the implementation of a Syntheti…

IT—More Than a Fancy Calculator: Moving From Cost Center to Business Value

11/22/19 It’s time to stop seeing IT as just a black hole to throw money towards and instead, give back to the business. Often, the lack of proper measurement and standardization a…

Meh, CapEx

11/06/19 Do you remember the good old days when you saved up your hard-earned cash to buy the shiny thing you’d been longing for? You know, like that Betamax player, the TV with th…

Better Visibility Can Help Improve Your FITARA scores

10/29/19 The most recent version of the scorecard measuring agency implementation of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act gave agencies cause for both celebration and concern. On …

The Best Way to Prepare for Emerging Technologies

10/01/19 According to the latest SolarWinds® IT Trends Report, emerging technology may be more of a pain than a benefit. Public sector IT managers in North America, the U.K., and G…