TripIt Goes Pro To Monetize Travel Itinerary Management
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal on 12. May, 2009 | View Comments
Without a doubt, TripIt is one of the best online travel tools I’ve come across. With very little effort, TripIt creates consolidated travel itineraries including air, hotel, and car, enabling automatic calendar integration and sharing. They even introduced an iPhone app, putting the itinerary, along with helpful links to maps and flight tracking, right in [...]
Spring Storage Networking World 2009, Here I Come!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 06. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
I’m off to Orlando this morning for Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2009. It will be great to see all of my friends in the industry again, though EMC will be quiet in the run-up to EMC World and the DMX-5 “Tigon” launch mysterious April 14th announcement!
I will be wearing two hats at the show [...]
Can’t Get There From Here
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 30. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
I’m currently making my travel plans for my final storage virtualization seminar. Or, to be precise, trying to make my plans. You see, apparently one cannot (reasonably) get from Cleveland to Toronto, even though they’re only 193 miles apart.
Want a direct flight? That’ll be $1,080 round trip on an Air Canada Dash-8. But it only [...]
Out of the Office and Away From Home
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 26. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
It is acceptable to give exceptional effort to your job, but far less so to have this become the normal expectation. One should never settle for accommodations or treatment from work that we would not be willing to offer to ourselves.
My Carbon Footprint
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 10. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Sitting in a jumbo jet five miles above the Sierra Nevada, I got to thinking. Now that I work at home and fly to work rather than drive to an office every day, has my carbon footprint increased or decreased?
Let’s lay down some facts for comparison:
I rarely got on a plane for work until the [...]
The Road Warrior’s Laptop
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 07. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content.
For IT-centric workers, being productive from the road requires more than just exceptional personal skills: A killer laptop is needed to replace an entire office full of equipment. Let’s consider what a [...]
Three Incredible Travel Websites You Ought To Use
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 26. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
I travel for work. I also travel for pleasure. You could say I travel a lot – not as much as some but definitely a lot. For example, I’ve spent at least one day in another state almost every week so far in 2008. Although getting there is never really fun, [...]
