Patience is just for Doctors and do we really need all these IT updates

I have been reading this publication called EWEEK for at least 20 some odd years now. Much of what I know about business computing I have learned from reading the pages of Eweek. Trouble is, just when you get to liking a column or reporter of Eweek, they change the reporter or promote them. The other thing just when you get to liking a certain part of the publication they kill it.

They used to have this part on the back page of Eweek, that was a sort of comic book look to it, that featured a two legged cat called Spencer Kat. For the most part ya’ll didn’t need to read the rest of Eweek, all you needed to do was read Spencer Kat, and you had the weeks IT 411. Then for some odd unknown reason, maybe the Kat wanted more Kat nip who knows, but they killed the feature. But here is where I wonder. If you go online to any of the Ziff Davis web sites to read anything, its no longer a read. They have this idiotic slide show and that’s it. Must be reminders to the geeks that put Eweek, Baseline and a few other Ziff Davis things together of their das in college and eating pizza at the local Shakey ’s Pizza parlor and watching slide shows of the recent ski trip. If they can’t do a better job of producing a product, then either improve or quit. Here are though some suggestions, how about spotlighting unusual IT environments. Like say IT in military aircraft, or even agricultural aviation. Truck transportation, towing and emergency road service. Production as well as what is called Precision Agriculture etc. Show what IT engineers in these areas are doing. This would increase readership, likewise, advertisers. All would be well.

Okay then onto IT upgrades. As I ignited my computer this morning, I got a reminder from AVG to upgrade my virus protection program. Which I dutifully did. The upgrade took about 45 minutes with no real need for me to do anything, trouble is while doing the install, the program disarmed my virus protection program which meant that for that 45 minutes my computer was still hooked to the modem and open to invasion by virus’s , malware etc. Even then, I had to have the program update the update. AVG 9.0 is now operational, but dang Sam, couldn’t they have done better with the update so it would roll out better, the first time.

Then still having trouble getting into my Gmail account. I have to identify myself 2 times, once from the icon in my task bar and then to the sign in, at Gmail. Ever try to find a phone number and a human to call at Google? Doesn’t Google realize there is a problem under its hood and that it might be good to get an IT wrench in there to repair the problem? Now one might say the problem is on my end. Nope, both my Hotmail, and Yahoo email clients work fine automatically logs in and no big problem . Which brings me to my last look at IT this morning.

Since mid summer 2009, when an associate and member of the Knytes-of-Anarchy, turned me on to Ning.com and doing the really important blogs etc there. I have dropped the idea off to Ziff Davis that they ought to spotlight Ning.com . Of all the business and personal blog sites I have ever used from the days of free blogs etc with Microsoft(Msn)to Yahoo, and then Blogger to name three, Ning.com is one of the most uncomplicated there is. Eweek ought to spotlight Ning.com .

More on upgrades Saturday.

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