IT solutions for outdoor grilling

Since we're approaching the pinnacle of grilling season with the 4th of July holiday, it only seems appropriate to take a short break from enterprise IT and point to my friend and neighbor Andrew Leonard's piece in Salon's "Object Lust" series. This week, Andrew writes lovingly about the Maverick Remote-Check Thermometer that I gave him a while back (or, as he says of the Remote-Check, it was "provided to me by a high priest of the digital age." That is a real compliment from a man who works the grill like LeBron James plays hoops.)

For serious multi-tasking grillers, the Remote-Check offers remote administration at its best. Of all the IT solutions I have recommended and implemented over the course of my career, this one ranks very highly on the pride list. At the very least, giving one of these to your neighbors is a nice way to distract them and make them forget they were about to ask you about their latest spyware infection or Wi-Fi issue.