Recently I was looking for a very particular music track. It is a song from the anime adaptation of “Ghost in the Shell” with Scarlett Johansson. More precisely: the official trailer music, which was not included in the sound score and therefore cannot be found in any of the mainstream music stores. Read more

Even measured by Microsoft’s own standards, the half-life of promises is astonishing. Since it has been said that Windows no longer follows the classic licensing and version scheme. Windows is the “last Windows”. Six years later, everything has changed. That roughly corresponds to the lifespan of a PC office desktop. Read more

There is an unwritten law in software development and IT operations. An anti-pattern for effective problem solving and complexity reduction. No one is crazy enough to adopt it. No customer on earth willing to pay for it. But they exist, the bright moments in the life cycle of a company, where this law can be applied. Read more

There is an uneasy feeling when reading reports of major hacks and data leaks. Am I exposed is the main question. Leak checkers promise to provide answers. The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam runs a well-known plattform, another from the University of Bonn is slightly less popular. Read more