How to Lose Customers and Adversely Influence People
Dale Carnegie wrote the famous book How To Win Friends and Influence People (also available in Kindle edition). According to Wikipedia, “it has sold 15 million copies world-wide”. That’s all well and...
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What’s Important To You?
Metric measuring tape (image by Zapyon) I previously wrote in “Projects, Process Improvements, Etc., But What of the Intangibles?“: More to the point, are you measuring what is important? Chance are,...
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The High Cost of Not Failing (or Why My Computer Never Works Right)
Thomas A Edison, circa 1877 Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas A Edison “Innovation.” Companies love to say that word,...
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Articles on Getting Ahead by Dishonesty and Politicians Debugging Laws
Punishment for dishonest traders in Ottoman Empire by Claes Ralamb, 1657 OK, it struck me as a bit ironic to run across articles on dishonesty and politicians in the same day, but the articles are...
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Time Warner to Raise Modem Rental Fee Again
Word is that Time Warner is once again raising its “modem rental fee”. The thing about it is that by the time you’ve had it for a year, you could basically had bought one at the lower tiers. Gizmodo...
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A Survey? Really? Do You Think That Is Appropriate?
Subject: Customer Service and My Change in [Service] Hello [Company name], I contacted your company’s customer services yesterday in order to [change something about my service]. It is handy that I...
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Why I Still Might Leave Facebook (and Take My Business Page With Me)
I honestly wasn’t planning on posting anything today, but this morning was when “it” happened. I get it, Zuckerberg. Facebook is free, which means I’m not the enduser but the product. I also get...
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I’m preparing for my annual hiatus, but when I came across this Washington Examiner article “Companies lay off thousands, then demand immigration reform for new labor” this morning, I had to share it....
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Facebook Yields to Users, Sometimes
I posted a little over two weeks ago how business pages are at the mercy of Facebook. In it, I explain “Why I Still Might Leave Facebook (and Take My Business Page With Me)“. Well, as of yesterday,...
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Merger Between Giants OfficeMax and Office Depot Approved, and Why This Is...
In 1997, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) turned down a merger request between Staples and Office Depot. Yet, at the beginning of this month, the FTC gave a green light to a merger between giants...
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Judge Rules Against Net Neutrality, and Why That’s a Bad Thing
Outdoor “cable salad” in Croatia Photo by User:Manfreeed You’ve probably heard by now how a judge recently ruled that the FCC overstepped its bounds by enforcing what is known as “net neutrality”,...
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Comcast to Buy Time Warner Cable
And, you thought your cable sucks now! Time Warner Cast? I am no fan of Time Warner, as some of my past posts can show. Actually, I am no fan of cable, period. However, that’s all that is available...
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Windows 8 “Biggest Loser” as Microsoft Extends Windows 7 Preload for Business...
“Windows 7 Experience Bus” Photo by Rico Shen, used under CCA-SA All I can say is “Wow!” In an extremely harshly titled article by PCWorld, “Windows 7, XP vulnerabilities doubled in 2013, but IE’s...
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Is Snow Leopard Apple’s XP?
How a dumb business strategy turns unethical and makes Apple look stupid In a rather scathingly toned article, TechEYE.net tells us that “Apple betrays its Snow Leopard users“. The problem I have with...
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Heartbleed Bug Follow-Up, What Everyone Needs to Do
Don’t listen to the iFUD, and don’t set your hair on fire. In the Army, we used to talk about people who went around “setting their hair on fire”. According to StackExchange, “Is ‘Set one’s hair on...
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No-IP Dynamic DNS Service Partially Shut Down — By Microsoft?
Since when is Microsoft part of the government again? Microsoft security forces, anyone? OK, I was minding my own business today (for a change, perhaps), and I wasn’t of a mind to post anything, but...
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Will Windows 9 Upgrade Be Free?
With various pundits comparing Windows 8.x with Vista, could Microsoft push free updates to get people off of XP and 7? Windows 9 log concept image (not actual logo) by Helixsoft, under CCA-SA Last...
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The Attitude of “Just Do It”
The extreme of not planning is not doing. Which is worse? Publicity photo of Clarine Seymour, 1919Public domain Do, or do not. There is no “try”. ~ Jedi Master Yoda “Just do it.” We’ve all heard the...
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So, Is Munich Happy With Linux or Not? Are They Reverting Back to Windows?
Linux + Munich = Limux While it is hard to pin down the exact date (since they apparently don’t advertise the date on some of their articles, for shame!), TechRepublic around November last year posted...
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Moronic Monday: Avast Deserves Being Ditched For Spying on You
Seriously, there is shaky, and then there is unethical! It is one thing for some piece of freeware/shareware sneaking on a toolbar or some other potentially unwanted program (PUP), but it is another...
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