When I was laid off back in 2001, it was the first time I had to get a personal name card, with my own phone number and email address. I make the cards from companies like Vista Print.1 My first card looked like this:
Last year, I experimented with the “Google Me” template. This one works [...]
I often asked myself: What’s important in this world? There are just so many things going on, it’s difficult to keep up with everything. After a moment of thinking (probably less than 3 minutes), I’ve concluded that “my world” is more important. It means anything within 50 miles around me. There’s not [...]
With the mainstream media constantly touting economic recession, unemployment, and spending cutbacks, it’s easy to believe the doom and gloom. However, I just got back from the malls this afternoon and it’s so far from the reality that was reported on the news. I’ve twittered what I saw in the malls in the past couple [...]
Ever since I attended the JBOSS World User Conference in February 2008, I’ve been getting a lot of junk emails from companies touting “Cloud Computing” technologies. It’s the latest buzzword in the tech industry. With big players such as Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, it sure gets a lot of attention. Essentially, cloud computing is the [...]
UPS service in my area is great. They’ve delivered my stuff without any problem. My company also has a discount rate for UPS products and services. UPS even figured out how to save gas and time during their routes by turning mostly right.
But when videos like this float around, showing the carelessness of one UPS [...]
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