CNN: In remarks at the annual conference of the UK Airport Operators Association in London, he said that the practice of forcing people to take off their shoes and have their laptops checked separately in security lines should be ditched. Nationalism aside, even noted security guru Bruce Schneier says we’re way off the mark with
Read More...Classic Shipley. Now, let’s play a game: pretend for a second that Steve Ballmer is driven by his need to conquer, and he’s also so angry at one of the people, say, I’m working with that he wants to kill them at all costs. So one day he shows up on my doorstep with a
Read More...One year ago, I had not exorcised my deep-seated fear of skeletons. Fast forward to the present, nothing has changed. This is bothersome to me. Am I the only one who has stuff like this? Instead of unearthing other petty fears a 41 year old man shouldn’t even be entertaining, here are some links. Am
Read More...I noticed PSoft Search on Twitter a few days ago, despite their single tweet and small community list. As I do with every new Twitter follower, I check them out to see if they’re worth a follow back. PSoft Search is. Because PSoft Search itself is a front-end to a custom Google search, it’s relevant.
Read More...This cluelessness manifests itself in many ways; for example, one study showed that people in power were more likely to grab more cookies and to eat like pigs. To give Huffington Post readers a sense of the horrific actions of the worst bosses and, to entertain you a bit too, I put out a call
Read More...Please join us at the Fall 2010 Ohio PeopleSoft Regional User Group (RUG) meeting on Thursday, November 4th, 2010 at The Conference Center at OCLC. The Conference Center is located at 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017. If you’re a regular at this RUG, please note that this RUG is at a different venue than
Read More...Halloween is a funny time, especially if you have a six-year-old boy with an active imagination and a level of cynicism that belies his age.
Read More...These days, we’re all familiar with the variations of Apple’s now-famous spinner animation that’s the modern-day incarnation of the ‘waiting’ hourglass. It began at Apple and has since spread just about everywhere in many variations. Panic’s Cabel Sasser found a web spinner created by Ajaxload.info that is driving him nuts. And the reason it’s driving
Read More...Apple, reporting just upwards of $20 billion in revenue and $4.3 billion in profit: Apple sold 3.89 million Macs during the quarter, a 27 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 91 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.05 million iPods during
Read More...“We are in the people business. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the banking business, your customers, you’re in the people business, and it’s how you treat people. I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I’d like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it’s
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