Outsourcing your offshore nearshoring? What?

Can someone explain what this means? I found it in my email this morning: “You heard it, India is outsourcing outsourcing. So why should you consider nearshoring your outsourcing, instead of offshoring it?”
The article was about how India is now outsourcing to Mexico, apparently because India is becoming as expensive as the United States (or [...]

Snow Leopard headache

Being the helpless technologist I am, I had to install Snow Leopard (OS/X 10.6) the day it shipped. Actually I’ve been looking forward to this release for some time — a release almost entirely focused on making the operating system more stable, faster and more compact. How novel! Of the handful of new features coming [...]

Antiprivacy policy

According to AT&T (via Wired Threat Level) AT&T has the protection of your privacy in mind. No really, despite their record (there was that little thing with the unwarranted wire tapping, after all), you can trust them. I mean, their new policy says they’re listening. Yes, it says that: “We’re listening.” Hmm.

The Force is not with them

From whatever angle of their approach — age, race, economic status, geography — they have come to a remarkably similar conclusion. Almost all indicators are pressing the Republicans into minority status.

No real ID?

I’m happy to notice the Real ID Law looks like it’s getting more and more opposition and may be scaling back (or dare we hope, dying?). According to the Washington Post the Obama administration has moved to reduce the scope of the law — passed after the September 11 terrorist attacks — that was designed [...]

Backwards

Oh my god, I can’t help but read articles like this and be amazed at how incredibly backward much of the world is… and that we will find complete morons everywhere we go.
One [Mujahideen] fighter climbed into the lion enclosure but was immediately killed by Marjan, the zoo’s most famous inhabitant. The man’s brother returned [...]

It’s solid!

I’m impressed. The day of the purely solid state consumer laptop is rapidly approaching:
Toshiba on Thursday announced another big step in the industry-wide adoption of solid state drives—the first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD. The drive will make its public debut at CES in January.
The company will also be debuting a number of different capacity SSD drives—64-, [...]

Too much social networking

Gah. How am I ever supposed to keep up with flickr, facebook, myspace, linkedin and whatever else comes along? I just don’t have time for this — even if I just try to keep one or two going. You know, there would be a fantastic market for some little application that synchronizes all of them… [...]

Parallels 4.0 printing problems

For those of you thinking of upgrading to Parallels 4.0, you might want to wait a bit yet. At least, if you are, like me, hoping that Parallels 4.0 solves its long-standing printing problems. Unfortunately, it appears to be worse than in 3.0, although the problem may not be entirely the fault of Parallels.
The “old [...]

Low IQ connection

I found this post interesting, although the lack of citation means that it’s potentially meaningless. But the graphic somehow explains a lot:

What I really identified with, though, is not the fancy chart that shows how red states tend to have lower IQs, but some of the comments posted by other readers. The fact that the majority [...]

Installing Adobe CS4

Looking forward to CS4? So am I, but you best be warned… Adobe is sticking true to form and making the installation process a nightmare. I’m terrified of what kind of crap it’s going to leave behind on my disk after I upgrade. Probably best to completely remove CS3 before attempting CS4…

Defending elitism

Oh my god, I haven’t been writing much lately. My apologies. I promise to amend the situation in the near future, but in the meantime here’s some excellent writing from Sam Harris published in Newseek:

…You can learn something about a person by the company [Palin] keeps. In the churches where Palin has worshiped for decades, [...]