Attending the Non-profit Technology Conference (NTC), DC, March 2011

In a couple of days, technology professionals working in the non-profit sphere will gather at the Washington Hilton to deliberate issues, trends and the future of their trade. When these happens, I will be there, with my colleagues from other non-profit institutions from all over the world. My personal goals are as follows:

Maximizing Social Networks

Social Networks have become the signature word of the second incarnation of the Internet. The first incarnation being the development of hyperlinks and the the hypertext mark-up language – which literally made it possible for several documents to link to and from several others. The second incarnation – christened web 2.0 by Tim O’Rilley – […]

Reasons I will wait for the Playbook!

I love technology – especially if viewed from the lens “technology makes life easier”. But, in my acquisitions, I have always had one guiding principle, ‘juice out the maximum benefit per dollar invested!’ For this reason, I am not always the first of all people to buy new techs, though usually, I am the first […]

First thoughts on hardware virtualization

Originally written on Tuesday 20/07/2010 Today, I had my first direct experience with the term virtualisation – note my choice of words. I am certain I have had many indirect ones and in most cases the term virtual/virtualization did not count or I was not aware of my interactions with virtual machines. I equipped my […]