Know This Last year’s definitive list of April Fools pranks as curated from the internet at large. Can’t wait to see what this year’s list looks like. Familiar with the uber-nerdy +1 meme? You should be, because Google just announced a product called +1 and its name is clever, but obscure. How to write a
Read More...From MarketWatch: Oracle (ORCL 32.80, +0.25, +0.76%) said its third-quarter net income rose to $2.1 billion, or 41 cents a share, compared to $1.19 billion, or 23 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter ended Feb. 28 rose 37% to $8.76 billion. Excluding one-time items, Oracle said earnings
Read More...Indian lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 has discovered an enormous volcanic cave under the surface of the moon, big enough (and with a steady enough temperature) to serve as a home base for human voyagers. But back to the temperature aspect: Its main attraction is a temperate climate. Temperatures on the moon swing wildly, from a maximum
Read More...“Don’t worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.” — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (Via Merlin) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing inPeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management) andBusiness Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d
Read More...Know This I missed this last week, but better late than never: Alec Baldwin offers advice to Charlie Sheen. Voice map assures Britons they’re not speaking like Americans. Why most of the world’s cuisine is comfort food, despite modernist trends. A clever deconstruction and analysis of the phrase, ‘it turns out.’ It turns out I
Read More...From Peter Bregman over at Harvard Business Review Blogs comes a story with a lesson everyone – literally, everyone – can use for the first time or, if you’re really lucky, be reminded of: Nothing we said seemed to have any impact on her. Nothing changed her expressionless stare. Nothing helped. Then her grandmother Mimi
Read More...Good industry trend news from CFO.com: If your employees’ salaries are still frozen or reduced from where they were in the premeltdown days, your company is behind the times. A noticeable thawing is in progress, according to new research from Towers Watson. Among 381 U.S. organizations that were surveyed, only 9% have frozen salaries for
Read More...“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and
Read More...Know This Gmail power user? If so, check out Smart Labels, new from Google Labs. This is the logical extension of Gmail Priority Inbox, released last year. The iPad 2, after two and a half days of being on sale, is sold out everywhere. (I can testify to this personally. Over the past weekend, I
Read More...From The PeopleSoft Blog: Rowset and XML doc data source are deprecated Connected query as a new data source XML generated in C++ for query data source Schema files no longer required for bursting Email as an output option “File name” field on the output page in report definition Use “Alt XML” for previewing the
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