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Mike Benzen Missouri State CIO

Mike Benzen Missouri State CIO




What kind of computer do you use at work?
Do you have a home computer?

I have an IBM Pentium II 266 at work, and a Gateway Pentium Pro 200 at home.

Favorite Internet bookmarks?

The state of Missouri homepage

What are you currently reading?

The Source by James Mitchner. I read it many years ago. Mitchner's recent death brought it to mind. I'm enjoying it again.

What's your most important current project?

I have two projects of equal importance: data center consolidation and Y2K.

How many e-mail messages do you get a day?

It varies -- around 30.

Favorite recreational activity?

Gin rummy

One thing you'd change about information technology?

I'd abolish acronyms. Perhaps then I could understand what the staff is trying to tell me.

Favorite quote?

"Most people don't know what they want, but they know they haven't got it." --Alfred E. Neuman

Person you most admire?

Harry S. Truman


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