Open data search engines

If you're looking for datasets for the purpose of research, statistics, etc, one way to find the data is to use the following search term in a search engine:

open data search engine

This will give you a few items to be going on with. Worth trying.

Ancient software

I was looking on the Internet today looking for PowerShell related information for a scriptblock I was writing when I came across this comment on one of the stackoverflow.com pages.

I don't work for a software company either. But that doesn't mean that your corporate computing environment gets a free pass on being stuck on ancient software. Staying current on your software is part of the cost of doing business today and if they're not willing to invest there, they're probably not investing in their people or other things that are important to keeping operations running.

On reading this, it certainly struck home for a number of reasons. How very true this comment is.