Stegosaurus or Stegnography?

This week in our technology class we were introduced to stegonography- a very cool way to conceal information such as word documents, mp3s and other documents, masked with a photo. So to the naked eye, an email containing harmless photos could actually be filled with words, and unless you had the password, you would not be able to access the document. I really think that it is a cool thing to use for fun with my family over emails. It is very, very easy to use, which I thought was nice.

Practicality in the FM industry? I don't know but here are some of my ideas:

1. You could take a picture of possible security liabilities of your building, then encrypt the photos with explanations of different ways that people have exploited these liabilities, preventing the future security breaches. Doing so, you would ensure that only the people you wanted to see it, could.

2. When giving out Christmas bonuses to your employees, you could encrypt a picture of Santa Clause with the amount of their bonus.

3. Other than that, I don't really have more ideas. I am looking forward to class today to hear what other people think.

May the Vektr be with you

This past week, I had the "vektr-experience." I thought that it was a fine tool to use for tracking and recording work orders. At my current employment, we use JIRA, which is very similar. I didn't find anything too amazing about Vektr, but I can see that it would get the job done.

When creating a work order, I felt that I had too many options and too many clicks to make, when sometimes the order is just simple. I prefer less pull down menus, and only a few fields. Again, I see the benefit of pull down menus for filtering purposes, but I thought there were too many.

Also, the resource tab was not intuitive. I was trying to create a work order, but I needed a resource, and I didn't know where to find it. Eventually, after clicking around I found out how to create one. I also thought that the Help menu was not very descriptive.

It is a fine product that will get the job done.

One shall stand alone

Well, after further study and feasibility, I have decided that I am going to do my report on GIS. I use it at work all the time, and I don't know the background or capabilities of it. I just know that it is very cool. The nanotechnology for green buildings really opened my eyes, but the main study on it is in a book that costs $90, so the simple economic principle of poor-college-kid ruled that one out! I look forward to posting more findings when they come. Until next time.

Flattened the internet

Well, I have officially joined the blog-nation as of September 9, 2008. This blog will initially be used as an assignment that I have in my FPM technology class, which thus far has been great. For the first assignment, we are to identify 3 different technologies that we could implement in the facilities management field, and eventually whittle those options down to one, which I will present.

So, my 3 initial ideas for technologies are:

1. GIS-Global Information System- how to use satellites, maps and other resources to identify your needs.

2.Showclix or etix- they are an on-line ticketing company that provides an internet based way of ticketing for any event; sports, musical, speakers, anything that needs ticketing.

3. Nano technology for green buildings- it may seem crazy, but they have done some cool stuff with nano technology. Paints, insulation, adhesives, etc are all different things that scientists are looking into.

Those are my 3 ideas for now, and I will have it narrowed down to one by next week.