Comments on: Power of the Web http://blog.brodzinski.com/2007/01/power-of-web.html Dealing with software projects in real life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Headworx http://blog.brodzinski.com/2007/01/power-of-web.html#comment-1778 Headworx Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:01:00 +0000 http://blog.brodzinski.com/2007/01/power-of-the-web.html#comment-1778 Yeah, join the club! When I was young I was hoping Microsoft would make changing hardware and doing upgrades easier. But they absolutely do not care about our precisely crafted configurations. Examples are many, most of them around <a href="http://headworx.blogspot.com/2006/04/metadata-metachallenges.html">managing personal metadata repositories</a>.<br /><br />The primary reason I have moved to Firefox was the <a href="http://headworx.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-browser-sync.html">Google Browser Sync</a> - at least I have my cookies and links and browser sessions "out there".<br /><br />We have new Microsoft Office version n+1, yet still the words we keep on adding to the spellcheckers are lost when we upgrade laptops. Bummer.<br /><br />The mobile carriers do not get it either. Last week my wife spent three hours moving the address book from the old to the new phone, with the help of Bluetooth and a spare so called "high capacity" (250 entries, give me a break!) SIM card. I use ActiveSync equipped business phone and while it breaks often, it takes 3 minutes to bring it back - set up an Internet connection, email account and place a digital certificate, the rest (800 contacts, 100 calendar entries, lots of tasks etc.) is one - click restored from the server over the air. Yeah, join the club! When I was young I was hoping Microsoft would make changing hardware and doing upgrades easier. But they absolutely do not care about our precisely crafted configurations. Examples are many, most of them around managing personal metadata repositories.

The primary reason I have moved to Firefox was the Google Browser Sync – at least I have my cookies and links and browser sessions “out there”.

We have new Microsoft Office version n+1, yet still the words we keep on adding to the spellcheckers are lost when we upgrade laptops. Bummer.

The mobile carriers do not get it either. Last week my wife spent three hours moving the address book from the old to the new phone, with the help of Bluetooth and a spare so called “high capacity” (250 entries, give me a break!) SIM card. I use ActiveSync equipped business phone and while it breaks often, it takes 3 minutes to bring it back – set up an Internet connection, email account and place a digital certificate, the rest (800 contacts, 100 calendar entries, lots of tasks etc.) is one – click restored from the server over the air.

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