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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Protecting important files with TrueCrypt

06-Feb-08

… but sometimes you want to protect your key files as well, either on your system drive, an external hard drive, or a USB thumb drive.

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A cow’s eye view of airport security

03-Feb-08

If you travel frequently by air, I think you’ll understand where I’m coming from. Originally posted 15 May 2003.
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Moo, moo…..
That’s how I felt earlier this week going through security at Newark airport. I was recently re-reading parts of Thinking In Pictures : and Other Reports from My Life [...]

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Another definition of “knowledge worker”

02-Feb-08

At a break between meetings at a recent big get together, the following defintion of a knowledge worker occurred to me:

A knowledge worker is someone that makes it up as they go along.

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A conversation on the nature of knowledge work

01-Feb-08

A few weeks ago there was an interesting exchange of ideas among Shawn Callahan, Matt Hodgson, Stephen Collins, and Dave Snowden (and many others, I’m sure) on the nature of knowledge work. Some key excerpts:

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