September 11, 2010

On the ninth anniversary of September 11, Dr. Dave remembers sitting in the same chair in shock and trying to conduct business that morning, then relates his son’s moving encounter with a severely wounded Gulf War veteran; the resulting political commentary is preserved as Dr. Dave’s own historical perspective. A Microsoft service outage returns him to a practical principle from the prior show: cloud services may be useful, but a person or business still needs an independent way to communicate and reach important data when one provider fails. The episode also preserves caller Rick’s careful decision between Palm and Android, with Dr. Dave openly separating present experience from unknowable corporate promises. Security behavior, phishing-email design, Amazon’s campaign against difficult packaging, the Windows Phone 7 launch and ARM’s new mobile processor form the major technology and consulting threads.

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