Here are some links to help you shake off the nasty cold spell the whole country seems to have endured. In fact, this weekend here in Michigan, it’s going to be downright balmy for a change: highs in the low 20s to high teens. Bust out the BBQs! Have you seen the funniest thing
Read More...My flight from L.A. to Detroit via Las Vegas with a non-scheduled fuel stop in Milwaukee took about twice as long as planned. Some people said I could have flown to New York and beyond in that time. I said in another hour and a half I could have been in Fiji if I’d been
Read More...If you’re about to buy a new hard drive for whatever reason, Backblaze (the online backup company…which I highly recommend, by the way) has published an excellent roundup of hard drive deployment and reliability data. It attempts to answer the question, “What hard drive should I buy?” and succeeds spectacularly. Because Backblaze has a history
Read More...Upworthy.com (and, now, copycat sites) has become known for dramatic, click-grabbing headlines. As I write this, here’s what’s scattered across Upworthy.com’s main page: Remember When Music Videos Used To Mean Something? Some Still Do. About. Damn. Time. A Sports Network Takes On What No One Wants To Talk About In Locker Rooms. Oh Snap! Cat
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Featured in Building Services Management January 2014 From simple tasks like changing a light bulb to more involved duties like HVAC maintenance, facilities management professionals find that effective building care can often become a matter of rushing around and putting out (figurative) fires. However, through robust asset lifecycle management solutions, facilities management
Read More...MIPRO Promotes Tim Schinke to Vice President, Alliances January 16, 2014 MIPRO Consulting, a Milford, Michigan-based consultancy focused on implementations, upgrades and optimizations of Oracle’s PeopleSoft and Fusion applications announced today that Tim Schinke has been promoted to Vice President, Alliances. MIPRO Managing Partner and CEO Jim Prokes made the announcement. In his
Read More...Marc Weintraub, writing for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Apps Strategy blog, about the new PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 4. Here’s the summary of the release: Continuous Delivery of PeopleSoft Releases Provides Expanded Mobility and Business Process Excellence Continued investment in Oracle’s PeopleSoft solutions results in the delivery of the PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 4. This deliverable increases
Read More...PeopleSoft 9.2 is here. It’s been out for a few several months now. Oracle has committed to innovation on the PeopleSoft platform through 2027 so the vision for the future of your PeopleSoft system is coming into focus. There will be new functionality. There will be enhancements. There will be opportunities to reduce customizations and
Read More...A little while ago, I told you about a device that brought some super useful data to my health and fitness awareness: the Fitbit. I won’t go into it again, but suffice to say that nearly a year later, I still use the Fitbit every day, for nearly every activity. Today, I’d like to tell
Read More...I can’t think of one industry today that isn’t considering cost-effective ways to manage their assets, capital equipment and facilities to maximize their longevity and return on investment. Everyone’s thinking about it. My father once said, “The best kind of car is one that’s paid for.” A simple statement, but when you think about it,
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