Brilliant Examples of Thinking Outside the Box

by Bruce Keener // June 16, 2015 // No Comments

Einstein once said that Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. He then went about proving it by completely re-imagining the concepts of space, time, gravity, matter, and energy. Of course, Einstein had a superior working knowledge of advanced mathematics and... Continue reading →

Donate $33 to LIVESTRONG and Get ‘Delivering Happiness’ Free

by Bruce Keener // June 9, 2015 // No Comments

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, and author of the book Delivering Happiness, has worked out a deal with Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG grass roots cancer organization so that you get Tony’s new book with a $33 donation to LIVESTRONG. How can... Continue reading →

Project Management Tip from J.K. Rowling

by Bruce Keener // June 5, 2015 // No Comments

Ever wonder what tools authors use for managing a project as immense as writing a book? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use their tools for managing our more complex projects? You might suspect, as I would have, that... Continue reading →

VMware Fusion Updated with Key Remapping in Windows VM

by Bruce Keener // May 20, 2015 // No Comments

Vmware has just released a neat update to VMware Fusion. They tell me it has about 15 bugs fixes, which surprised me because I didn’t know it had 15 bugs. It works great for me. But the big change is... Continue reading →

Save Money on Tech e-books via Twitter and Facebook

by Bruce Keener // May 3, 2015 // No Comments

Twitter and Facebook may cause us to waste a lot of time, but they can be useful, too. I’ve even saved some money using Twitter (probably wasted some, too, but let’s not get into that). For example, by following OReillyMedia,... Continue reading →

Forbes and Atwood on Password Security [re: the Gawker Incident]

by Bruce Keener // April 23, 2015 // No Comments

The recent hack of Gawker Media sites has compromised over a million passwords. Although I had not commented on Lifehacker in a long time, my password and email (from the one or two times when I did comment) were among... Continue reading →

Announcing a Great New Blog: Team Fusion

by Bruce Keener // April 22, 2015 // No Comments

I had not planned on blogging again until Monday or Tuesday but just found out that VMware now has its own blog: Team Fusion Several of you will find this blog to be very interesting, since, like me, you have... Continue reading →

Framebusters Break WordPress Theme Activation

by Bruce Keener // April 4, 2015 // No Comments

If you manage a WordPress site, you probably need to know about this. If you use any “framebuster” javascript in your WordPress theme, and you deactivate that theme and then try to reactivate it, you cannot reactivate it. Well, you... Continue reading →

New VMware Fusion Beta: One Problem on My Bootcamp System

by Bruce Keener // March 28, 2015 // No Comments

Last week, VWware made available a second beta of its VMware Fusion. There are a lot of new features, which I’ll highlight briefly in a moment. But, first, I wanted to cover a problem I ran into with one of... Continue reading →