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  Seen this a few times in the past couple years The major focus of this blog has been information, misinformation and how we as individuals sift through it all.  Then once filtered we make a decision.  I have not focused on the provider of the information.  To be blunt,  given a particular topic and associated information a poor decision is on you.  As the responsible person it is up to you (or me) be properly informed and come to a correct decision.  Over the years there has been many controversial topics affecting our daily lives. I remember when mandatory seat belt usage was proposed.  Oh my the horror this was going to reap on society.  I vaguely recall being in a movie theater and seeing a short documentary on seat belts and the danger of their usage.  Crash test dummies were seat belted into cars and various accidents were simulated.  The result of each crash were dismemberment of the dummies caused by the seat belts.  T...

  Bus topology A quick note:  I have tried to keep the technical aspects of this blog to a minimum.  If you are interested in understanding some of the technical details leave a note in the comments. How do you know when you have enough information to make a decision?  Can you ever have too much information?  I am not sure if I have mentioned this before but I was a trainer in the IT industry for 20 years.  I began with application classes such as word, excel, word perfect (anyone remember it) and many others.  When an opportunity opened up in what we call technical training I jump at it.  Now I was teaching Microsoft, Comp Tia and Cisco certification classes.  I taught classes for a corporate training company as well as at the local community college.  There are many interesting dimensions to teaching these technologies.  I would like to highlight one of these. I am going to start with a story from one of my classes.  I was te...