I'm sending my kids to this school!

I recently read an article about a University doing things a little differently. Instead of sticking with their mix of Apple and Windows PC systems, the college is doing a 180º spin from your "business norm" and adopting an all-Mac policy on the campus. While I rarely think it's a good idea to standardize on any one platform, if you're going to do it, Macs are a terrific option now. Not only can you run OS X and Windows on them, they are virtually impervious to most security attacks.

"[Scott Byers, vice president for finance and the head of campus IT said] 'We think it will save $150,000 directly, in buying fewer units - even though the Macs cost more per unit than PCs. The school, which enrolls about 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students, will reduce its inventory from nearly 1,700 computers to around 1,450 after the change over... 'By standardizing, the IT department should be more productive, ' Byers said."

I'll take Hummers for $500, Alex

It turns out those tree-hugging, yuppie mobiles, the Toyota Prius isn't so environmentally friendly after all. An article from Central Connecticut State University raises some interesting questions.

"When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer - the Prius’s arch nemesis."

Ironically, it's the tree-huggers at Greenpeace who discovered much of this.

The Machine is Us

An interesting video done by a professor at Kansas State University. The syllogism here is that shortly after it was posted last month it had been viewed over 1.7 million times. "The Machine" on autopilot indeed.

What does "Web 2.0" really hold for us? Hopefully it means a smarter client base for me. That is, if I can figure out this whole internet thing.

First post, wheee!

What's this you say, a tech consulting firm without a blog?

Yes, it's true,

Superdoop

finally has a blog. Whoa wait a minute, don't start shopping for a survival ranch in rural Montana just yet, this is not a sign of the apocalypse. I've just been busy with so many projects that I've neglected my own site.

Well no longer!

What will follow will be semi-monthly posts relating to the tech industry and encompassing landscape. That pretty much includes everything, doesn't it? However, you will never see this blog delve into eclectic tales of midgets with

banjos

, or dogs that can bark

Ave Maria

. And there will absolutely be no

Microsoft bashing

.

"Rural Montana", as if there is any other kind.