Casual Friday: Forcing Yourself to Admit You Messed Up

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Casual Friday: Forcing Yourself to Admit You Messed Up

I was thinking the other day about the idea of fault. Particularly, how quick we are to assign fault to another person or group, because that minimizes our role in whatever problem we’re facing. And I really got to thinking. There’s a certain liberation in something being your fault. It means three things: You are

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How Busy Is a Busy Airport?

Vimeo user Cy Kuckenbaker compressed five hours of airport traffic (in this case, landing planes) into 30 seconds of video. Kuckenbaker shot this over San Diego International Airport on this past Black Friday. It doesn’t even look real: it’s like an opening sequence to a videogame or cartoon. Amazing.

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MIPRO’s Presentation Session Voted Best of Show at Reconnect 2012

Larry Zagata, our VP of Solution Delivery, received this card in the mail recently. It’s a handwritten congratulations card from the folks at Quest/Reconnect 2012 telling him that his session (called Utilizing Native PeopleTools for Improved Business Intelligence) was the highest-ranked session of the entire show. That’s exciting, especially considering the very high caliber of

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Webinar: Preparing PeopleSoft for 2012 Year-End W-2 Processing

Do you cringe at the thought of reconciling year-end? Let us help.  At this time of the year there’s so much to do – apply your PeopleSoft patches, verify your employee data, test, print your payment summaries and more – it can all be overwhelming. Chances are, you’ve been there before. Instead of hoping the

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Casual Friday: Hurricane Sandy and the Best Versions of Ourselves

It’s been a tough week. First off, we’d like to express our thoughts and concerns for our employees, their families and clients who are dealing with Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath. We wish all of you continued safety and as speedy a recovery as is possible. Looking at the damage in New York, I can’t help but

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Casual Friday: When Clouds Go Bad

When ‘Convenient’ Comes Crashing Down Cloud computing is great – until it’s not. This past week, there was much ado made about Amazon shutting down a customer’s account based on fraud/DRM-related allegations. Problem is, Linn, the affected customer, did nothing wrong. You can read about the ordeal pretty much everywhere, but the site that kicked

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Casual Friday: Linkology, or Stuff I Found While Looking Around

It’s been several weeks since I’ve done a Linkology post, and my Google Reader is full of starred items. (At least you don’t have another story about me making stuff up to my son, right?) So, off we go. We’ll have fun. Right? RIGHT? Get Privacyfix and find out how much data you’re giving to

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