It seems like in the finance and service driven work of ZingNet we often struggle with how to reach our Great Food! bottom line. We don’t cook food and we don’t sell food. But we do support businesses that do both.

IT sends out a survey whenever we close a trouble ticket. The feedback we’ve gotten has all been in a similar vein: bring food.

ZingNet huddles every-other-week, usually twice a month, and there is always food at the meeting. ZingNet is also striving to establish a presence in all the businesses.

Thinking of these things while noshing on some Rick’s Picks, I thought, “ZingNet needs to eat more. We need to get lost in the land of a thousand flavors.” (more…)

I don’t take any pleasure in writing negative reviews. I’ve been using the iPhone for two weeks now, replacing my Treo 700, and I have discovered more things that I don’t like than those that I do. I’ll share some of them with you.

The iPhone has a lovely interface for Contacts, the scrolling rubber band feel is great. However, there is no way to search. On my Treo I could enter a partial bit of info, like an area code, and have it search everything in Contacts. Or some snippet of text I knew was in the Notes field. The only way to access my over 1000 Contacts is by scrolling a list of either All or a Group from my Addressbook. This is a frustrating limitation after having the ability to search on anything. My memory is not good enough to remember all the info in my Contacts by firstname or lastname.

The Calendar is another place where I feel the other side of the blade - beautiful, simple, clean interface - no customization, no view preferences, no modification. (more…)

VentureCake has a great article about the kernels used in VMware. It comes almost immediately after VMware’s IPO, which generated lots of investers for the virtual machine software maker. The trouble: VMware basically has two kernels, one of which is the popular Linux kernel. The GPL of the Linux kernel makes redistributing the kernel (for profit) illegal. So now that VMware is $79.99, is it violating the Linux GPL? If so, can it run without the Linux kernel? “VMware had these serious questions posed directly to them a year ago, repeated in a public forum many times since, but have yet to respond at all.” VentureCake explores these questions and the workings of The VMware House of Cards.