Monthly Archives: July 2012

Fix Failures Fast

What makes PCs fail? Recently Microsoft Research published a research paper that looks at PC failures. The research spanned a million consumer PCs and examined failure rates and the suspected causes of those failures. The data came from the Windows Error Reporting … Continue reading

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Colorado Wildfires

More than a few people have asked how I’m doing with all the fires in Colorado, so I wanted to drop a quick note. I’m fine and the family is safe. We are near Parker, CO, so not very close … Continue reading

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Security and Honesty

Information is power. That’s been a saying I’ve lived by as a data professional for years. That has guided me to capture additional data in applications, often data business users did not think was important initially. The power of information … Continue reading

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