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Maybe you saw this on The Register or elsewhere: After months of denial, Microsoft cops to IE vulnerability.

Sheesh, didn’t I say it back then?

This past week on the Information Systems course I’m taking as part of the Master’s degree, I mentioned the one article I read last year that I used as example of a failure when trying to integrate Information Systems in an organization. I promised to send my colleagues the reference of it, so here it is: Prescription for an I.T. Disaster? Start with the first link there, “A Bold Vision”, then from there onwards all of the pages are easy to follow.

Next time Bill Gates tries to convince someone that life’s so beautiful with technology, and more with Windows, you better think about it twice, right? He’ll sell you only CALs of some products but won’t take part of any system integration. Brilliant, isn’t it? Even if the project fails as in the above case, he wins.

Oh, and also wanted to mention that in June’s issue of Communications of the ACM there was an article titled ‘Time to rethink health care and ICT?’ where the authors analyzed the effort and provided some suggestions to allow the project to succeed.

One last thing I wanted to point out is also something that the author of ‘The business of software’ article, in the same Communications of the ACM issue, mentions that 80% of software projects fail to meet their goals; a bit different and certainly more current than the information presented in the “Sistemas de Información Gerencial” book that says that the percentage of big Information Systems projects have a failure rate of 50 to 75%.

It was funny, and a coincidence, that after I finished updating something in my del.icio.us bookmarks I saw a blog post on Search400.com mentioning that del.icio.us is a good place to check for information regarding the AS/400 and iSeries, but that they didn’t find anything tagged with “System i”. Well, I guess Mark didn’t try the “System_i” tag which is the one I use but, regularly, I use it in conjunction with the iSeries tag.

If you try the POWER, POWER6, and alike tags you may find more interesting stuff.

I saw a blog post in the IBM Blogosphere (the internal blogs) talking about the Myers-Briggs personality types, so I decided (as David did) to add my results here for the record.

I only tried the test on HumanMetrics and it says that I’m an INTJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging, with a strength of the preferences %: 78, 50, 75, 11). It gives also some links, but here I only include those to a couple of descriptions, INTJ type description by D.Keirsey, and INTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss.
Here’s another one.

Now, the qualitative analysis says that I am:

• very expressed introvert
• moderately expressed intuitive personality
• distinctively expressed thinking personality
• slightly expressed judging personality

I’ll have to think about it more and then get to a conclusion.

Aren’t you tired of news articles with a title like this one?

With hundreds of so called “breakthroughs” happening each day I’m no longer surprised by anything. I’m sure that some day we’re going to be able to teleport wired and wirelessly, so what?

We’re not going to carry laptops in the future, are we happy?

This just reminds me of Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition.

Why don’t things are mentioned only when they are ready in mass production for the whole market in the world (cheap and all that)?

Companies, writers, etc., need to come up with something different, we’re already tired of breakthroughs that aren’t breakthroughs at all.

The other day, in the Business Administration class, the professor mentioned Wireless Electricity, don’t remember what was the topic about at the moment but I just wanted to document here the couple of sources I found about it.

On my feed reader, the first reference I have about Wireless Electricity is the Power to the People post on patrickWeb, that dates back to December 18, 2006. Then we have this article in Slashdot that points us to the Boston Globe article MIT discovery could unplug your iPod forever (they had to use the word iPod in here, right?), to the Wireless energy promise powers up in the BBC News, and finally to the article Goodbye wires… in the MIT News.

Another interesting topic I remembered when WiTricity was mentioned is the one about levitation, here’s an article I had stored in my del.icio.us bookmarks: Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of levitation. And yet another thing I just remembered right now is the control of computers with the brain, see this reference.

Almost all of the links stored on del.icio.us.

Looks like during the week, Micro$oft won an award.

I’m just wondering if they’re going to claim their prize.