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- Comment RE: The Factual Core
- My sense is that Wikipedia is imperfect...and should acknowledge that fact. People do simply have to make their own judgments, in the end, and not leave it to Wikipedia or anyone else. As long as they don't set themselves up as the objective arbiter, they're fine. But once they...
- White papers 2004-11-29
- How To Fix Your Laptop's DVD Player
- In the New York Times today, there's an interesting article about a computer problem for PCs that has happened to me several times. I'll be getting set up in an airplane to watch a movie or presentation on my laptop when the sound stops working. Once, it was because I...
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- SWOT Does Not Need To Be Recalled: It Needs To Be Enhanced - Description Of The Problem - I
- While everyone is talking about the SWOT analysis, however there are quiet a few glitches that many a few organizations come across. This article takes a close look at the issues of validity and reliability of a crucial tool of SWOT. This paper looks at the misconceptions held about the...
- White papers 2000-01-11
- Deformation Analysis for Shape Based Classification
- Statistical analysis of anatomical shape differences between two different populations can be reduced to a classification problem, i.e., learning a classifier function for assigning new examples to one of the two groups while making as few mistakes as possible. In this framework, feature vectors representing the shape of the organ...
- White papers 2001-09-14
- Turn Your Blockbuster Card into a Hotel Key
- Staying in foreign countries on business—even in upmarket hotels—often means dealing with radically different ideas about customer service. One thing that Ive noticed recently is that in many places in Europe and Asia, hotels require you to put your plastic electronic key into a slot in the room in order...
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Lessons in Customer Support
- A few days ago, I wrote a post titled, Caught in a Geek's Gravitational Field. The truly unimportant post just outlined the geeky stuff that I have been working on and the fact that the mess I have been making has gotten me into an infinite loop of debugging,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- A Mouse that Fits Inside your Laptop
- One of the biggest bummers of traveling with a laptop is trying to use the built-in trackpad and nub to navigate. Apart from my general difficulty dealing with the cramped design, I always end up inadvertently hitting the pad with my thumb while typing, thus moving the cursor...
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Crankypants In the Workplace
- Crankypants In the WorkplaceCrankypants are often the managersA client company has a vice president whom I believe suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. He's hostile, abusive, manipulative and totally without empathy or scruples. Yet this jerk (who by the way started acting in a threatening and abusive way toward me as...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-13
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Giving and Receiving FeedbackQuestion about giving feedbackThe problem I run into often when I'm giving feedback is that I feel uncomfortable by giving a "not so good feedback". I usually make two mistakes:1) don’t say much and go do it myself, I know is terrible! But how can I ask...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-08
- Taking Different Approaches to a Problem
- We are under such time pressures at work that we tend to solve problems based on what has worked in the past. This approach precludes us from finding new and effective solutions. Instead, we look for “quick fixes.” Considering a problem from different perspectives helps us solve...
- Articles 2007-12-03
- Forget What You Learned in Grade School: Five Teamwork Myths
- Forget What You Learned in Grade School: Five Teamwork MythsCollege 2.0, overcompensating?Having just graduated with a degree in computer science, I learned a different set of 5 myths, they are:1) Teams are always bad2) Reaching consensus is always a waste of time3) "I" is the only team you can count...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Countrywide, Bear Stearns: Failures in Governance
- We've now seen two financial firms fail in the subprime mortgage mess--Countrywide Financial and Bear Stearns. What do they share in common? Spectacularly bad corporate governance. Â There's been a long-running debate among shareholder activists and corporate leaders whether "good governance" equals "good business," or merely consists of...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Should You Buy a Refurbished PC?
- Should You Buy a Refurbished PC?Bought several. No problems.We've bought several Apple refurbs, both desktops and Mac Books with never a problem. I agree sometimes you actually get a better unit as it has been looked over closely. At times they have also come with more memory or larger HD...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Closing Rule #2: Set an Objective.
- Myth: Every sale has a single, all-important point where the deal closes. Truth: Some extremely simple sales processes have a defined close point, but complex sales processes (i.e. almost all B2B sales) have a series of points where the prospect makes a decision, even if it's just...
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- My Juggling Act
- Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm an organized person -- even obsessively so. I love to plan and put things in order just right, and I'm hugely detail-oriented. Luckily, this kind of behavior comes in handy when you go back to school: Finding a balance between work,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Get Work Done When You Work From Home
- Get Work Done When You Work From HomeThe Bong are you kidding!?!Really I am no prude. The Xbox and Oprah might draw my attention, but "the Bong"!?! What sort of society do you live in?RE: Get Work Done When You Work From HomeYour comments about 'succombing to the bong' and...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Windows (Image Gallery: Best and Worst Workplace Design)
- Windows (Image Gallery: Best and Worst Workplace Design)The UK seems to have it right after all!My new company is about to have a new building built and as I had been asked to input into the design requirements I went into this article hoping for lots of ideas. Having...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Medical Problems, In Confidence
- Medical Problems, In ConfidenceMedical problems in the workplaceDifferent laws exist depending on where you live and employers must familiarize themselves with the rights and obligations of accommodating a medical condition in the workplace. In my province employers must reasonably accommodate the needs of an employee whenever possible (i.e. create an...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- 10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)
- 10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)Finally, someone gets it right.I have read a couple of Tom Peter's books (first one was bad, shame on me for biting on the second one). Peters is completely full of crap. He only manages to point out what's wrong with everyone...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
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