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· Naughties
· · 2003
· · · February
· · · · 18 (2 entries)
Off to See the DoD · I'm spending the next couple of days at Fort Monroe, VA, attending (and addressing) a session run by the Center for Army Lessons Learned on knowledge technology. The US Military has as much information, and more computers, and as many networks, as any other organization in the world. I think they think they're not getting enough mileage out of what they have; I'm inclined to cut them some slack because of the sheer scale of the problems they're addressing. I do think, though, that problems of this scale aren't going to be addressed properly without better user interfaces, which is why I'm visiting ...
The Great Reconfiguration · This technology stuff is more work than it ought to be. Over the past weekend, we tossed out an obsolete computer and reconfigured everything, and everything works a little better now, but it cost us, all told two full days' work, and the application of a lot of expertise ...
