Archive for June, 2007

The minister’s fingerprints

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

This seems to break all conceivable diplomatic protocols, but there’s this newspaper which pretends the Romanian minister of foreign affairs was searched at the arrival in the U.S. just like a common immigrant. His fingerprints were taken, his iris pattern was scanned, he was ordered to take his shoes and his belt off, and he […]

Stupid software can ruin even the greatest of products

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

My company has over time acquired a few Fujitsu-Siemens workstations, some models of the Esprimo series, and some of the Celsius series. They are all decent computers, they are doing their job admirably under the tough circumstances, and although their cases are really ugly (see below), they have good thermal design. The power supplies with […]

Webmasters rule the world

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

My boss, the IT manager, had the really bad idea to put my e-mail address on the corporate contact page, next to the Webmaster label. There are only 3 e-mails on that (lousy if you ask me) website: a PR executive’s, mine (the webmaster, right), and the HR manager’s — this last one somewhat hidden, […]