Category Archives: Business

At the end of Kathy Sierra’s essay Creating Passionate Users: Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide, she states: [Be warned, though, that I was asked or rather urged to leave Sun as a result of some of what’s in … Continue reading →

Here’s your Get Out Free Card, provided by Intuit QuickBase. A list of how to navigate the phone systems of major corporations to quickly speak to a "real human". Apparently Klein bottles can be found at AT&T Wireless and Compaq. … Continue reading →

Come to Frontier City for the Fun!And stay for the great rides! Get the #@$% out of here. Why are you bugging us? My mother-in-law took my daughter and niece to Frontier City yesterday afternoon for a day of fun.  … Continue reading →

I’m a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (despite the name, I am not a machine).  I subscribe to ACM Tech News which sent the following to me today: "Senators Promise ‘Brain Drain’ Bill"InternetNews.com (07/21/05); Mark, Roy U.S. Senators … Continue reading →

Mike Duffy has transcribed at least a few of Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.  Check out his list, and if you like what you read, order the book (for free) from Raytheon. Apparently it started from an article in Business … Continue reading →

William Bulkeley examines IBM claims of adding a net 2K to US jobs and finds the numbers don’t add up. Read WSJ.com – New IBM Jobs Can Mean Fewer Jobs Elsewhere (paid subscription required) for the full details. If IBM … Continue reading →

I’ve been mulling the recently attempted outser of Eisner from Disney. How a “board of directors” can retain a CEO who has 43% of the shareholders voting against him is beyond me. I think it probably would have been over … Continue reading →

WSJ has an interesting article on China “outsourcing” iron mining to the US. Read WSJ.com – Chinese Outsourcing (paid subscription required) for the full details. A iron mine in Minnesota has re-opened to fill iron requirements for manufacturing firms in … Continue reading →

Motley Fool examines stock options and IBM’s new policy. Seth Jayson likes what he finds in Fool.com: IBM’s Options Upgrade [The Motley Fool Take] February 26, 2004. The change may not seem like much on the surface, but take a … Continue reading →