Injecting the CCP virus into BTC highs

What is BTC? For those of you who’ve followed the rise of digital currencies, you’ll know that BTC is a ticker symbol or abbreviation for Bitcoin, which emerged in 2008-2009 as the first decentralized cryptocurrency, and smashed all-time-high (ATH) prices in December 2020 from $20,000 to $27,000 USD per Bitcoin. Will another round of COVID-19 stimulus checks pump the BTC price even higher?

What is the CCP virus? Meanwhile, almost everyone knows about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, also known as the “Wuhan virus” or “China virus” that causes the COVID-19 disease, which first emerged in December 2019 from Wuhan, China, but was kept secret for weeks by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Conversely, will another round of COVID-19 stimulus checks devalue the USD even lower?

CCP Virus & BTC Highs

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA content designer/engineer at Wipro. Although the shift from IBM to Wipro in 2017 triggered an annual barrage of content migrations and conversions, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t noticed the shocking geopolitical and financial tremors over the last few years. So my question is: How will IBM deal with the USD impact of the CCP virus and BTC highs?

Blinding minds with technocratic IoT

Red-pilled! Did the 2016 US Presidential landslide by Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton open your political eyes? For many, it inevitably did. If so, you might’ve been further “red-pilled” or awakened by other globalist technopolitical realities like: (1) IBM had leased its Hollerith punched-card machine to Nazi Germany, and (2) mathematical flaws have exaggerated global-warming models for decades.

In my previous post, I wondered: “Not only is technopolitics a technological form of political action, it might also be a political form of technological action.” This concept strongly applies to the Hollerith tabulator technology, and loosely applies to the global-warming calculations rather than any direct carbon-creating technology. But, along these lines, what about the technocratic Internet of Things?

Technocratic IoT

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM. In fact, IBM TRIRIGA falls under the IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) business unit. So it’s hard to avoid any IoT news. But as IoT struggles with smart homes, driverless vehicles, and security attacks, one big question always lurks in the shadows: When will globalist technological elites exploit IoT to regulate your freedoms?

Investigating the IBM approval of TPP

Batman vs. Superman! Democrat vs. Republican! This year, 2016, has without doubt witnessed a lot of battles — cinematic, political, and ideological. So why not post something a little bit different? This time, I’ll talk about IBM vs. TPP. Or more accurately, IBM’s support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and Trade in Services Agreement (TISA).

To save time, I’ll focus on TPP. So what is TPP? According to Wikipedia: “The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)… is a trade agreement among twelve Pacific Rim countries [which aims to]… promote economic growth; support the creation and retention of jobs… raise living standards; reduce poverty…” But do these noble goals help the sovereign nations? Or the multinational corporations that defy them?

TPP, TTIP & TISA

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM. I never expected to write a political post. After all, I’ve avoided politics for the last two presidential cycles. So what changed this cycle? Good question. Maybe I’m beginning to see that this isn’t about Democrats vs. Republicans, but about Globalism vs. Americanism. And as my multinational employer, IBM is supporting globalism.

Mixing TRIRIGA with Bluemix and IoT

TRIRIGA remixed? With Bluemix and IoT? How? Well, let’s figure it out together. If you haven’t heard, probably the biggest IoT news in the last few weeks was the IBM announcement that it “will invest $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions.”

What does “cloud-based open platform” remind me of? You guessed it: Bluemix. In fact, the news named a future offering called the IBM Bluemix IoT Zone where developers could “enrich existing business applications – such as enterprise asset management, facilities management, and software engineering design tools”. What is our “facilities management” application? You guessed it: TRIRIGA.

Potential future of TRIRIGA, Bluemix, and IoT

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM. While it might be more direct to share my impressions from within our new IoT division, it might be more fun to show how a passing but perceptive observer outside IBM might figure out where TRIRIGA fits into the mix. After all, both perspectives might turn out to be similar. I might even learn more about what’s going on!

Sharpening senses with social media

“I share, therefore I am.” In a previous post about enforcing our reality, I explored the concept of our evolving social-media presence, its possible dangers, and its perceived influence on “our total social reality”. Despite our social technophobia, social media “poses no more and no less of a social threat than any other technological breakthrough like the automobile, television, and Internet”.

But can social media be something more than simply “sharing your thoughts, feelings, photos, and lives with the online world”? More than simply “an effort to declare or enforce your perceived reality or existence”? Why not? If we look up beyond our impulsive two-second retweets, sharing thoughts can lead to exploring new ideas, uncovering new interpretations, and discovering new insights.

Watch Dogs: Skills Tree

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM. When I launched my blog in November 2013, I knew next to nothing about cloud computing. But I didn’t let that stop me from learning the cloud basics. Now, 10 months later, I’ve sharpened my senses to a point where I’m finding flawed statements about IBM BlueMix PaaS and IBM Service Engage SaaS on other blogs!

Surfing through IBM Service Engage

Have you ever heard of IBM Service Engage? Back in February, during the IBM Pulse 2014 cloud conference, Service Engage was one of the hotter “software as a service” (SaaS) topics in town. Nowadays, 5 months later, I haven’t heard IBM talk too much about it. Maybe that’s the cyclical nature of user conference marketing. But recently, I’ve been feeling a fresh breeze in my direction.

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM. In the coming weeks, I might have an exciting opportunity to develop instructions in dynamic guided tours to help potential customers who are still unfamiliar with and exploring the benefits of our IBM TRIRIGA products. If so, then these guided tours or demos of our products could be added to the Service Engage portal!

IBM Service Engage

Naturally, to get familiar with the Service Engage portal, its look, its feel, its highlights, and maybe even its limitations, I decided to surf several of the guided demos myself. While I might not conclude with a negative review, I certainly won’t ignore the negative experiences. Besides, if I want Service Engage to improve, it’s best to not only celebrate its good points but also criticize its bad ones.

Splitting IBM TRIRIGA into mobile bits

IBM TRIRIGA! It’s been months since I last talked about delivering IBM TRIRIGA from the cloud or mobilizing IBM TRIRIGA on mobile. While it isn’t hard to see the trend towards centralized cloud-based and mobile-browser solutions, there might be other trends on the horizon. For example, IBM Endpoint Manager, formerly called BigFix, offers a more-decentralized processing-agent approach.

Recently, Google began splitting its Google Drive mobile app into standalone apps — Google Docs for documents and Google Sheets for spreadsheets — because the company realized that “more of you are starting to use your mobile devices not just to view, but also to create and edit content”. Here, we’re seeing another example of migrating towards a more-decentralized mobile experience.

Potential future of IBM TRIRIGA mobile apps

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA information developer at IBM. While cloud-based “software as a service” (SaaS) approaches might be delivered entirely through a mobile browser, such third-party browsers might also be limited in their processing power or interactive experience. Like Google standalone apps, will IBM TRIRIGA mobile apps evolve beyond mobile browsers?