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Written by Michael Stuhlreyer
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Friday, 26 February 2010 01:00 |
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Less than a week before the Super Bowl, a technophobe makes a mad dash for a big-screen TV.
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A certain frenzied logic takes over five days before the Super Bowl when the Saints are playing and your wife was born and raised in New Orleans and you can't possibly justify $3,000 a ticket plus airfare and hotel. The rationale is unassailable: I presently have a 30" television screen. A 30" screen just will not do. Therefore, I need a bigger TV.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 11:45 |
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Written by Michael Stuhlreyer
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Friday, 22 January 2010 01:00 |
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Ever wonder what the free market in full indulgence mode looks like? Browse the list of Apple's Web apps.
Written by Michael Stuhlreyer
Editor's note: You asked for it, and you got it! Back by popular demand is our "Tirade" humor column.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will eventually type the complete works of William Shakespeare. Well, the monkey's still at work; no Shakespeare yet. But I'm convinced that all the monkey-babble typed to this point has not gone unused, that Apple and its legion of app developers continually sift through the mountains of nonsense words for ideas.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 11:45 |
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Written by Chris Smith
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 20:00 |
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The corporation continues to keep layoff numbers secret but is obliged to report that executives received millions in bonuses and extravagant perks.  By Chris Smith
While wandering the aisles of Wal-Mart the other day, I noticed that the store's stock of resumé paper was completely sold out. I don't know why I should be surprised by this, but it made me wonder if a few thousand laid-off IBM employees might have been responsible. Perhaps they first met at McDonald's for coffee and then marched over to Wal-Mart together and swarmed into the store like a hoard of locusts, wiping the shelves clean of the precious commodity that everyone wants: resumé paper! |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:09 |
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Written by Chris Smith
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Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:00 |
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Danes plan a working model of a large-scale fleet of electric vehicles powered by the wind.  By Chris Smith Ralph Nader once said that the use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. Efforts by the Danish government and IBM, however, may eventually lead to renewable energy being within reach of everyone. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 27 February 2009 09:48 |
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Written by CJ Rhoads
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 20:00 |
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Do you think it's time to cut back? Maybe a different approach makes better sense.  By CJ Rhoads MC Press Online Editor's Note: The following article was previously published by Klee Associates, Inc., publisher of JDEtips Journal and SAPtips Journal. A sample issue of either journal may be requested by clicking the respective links. Klee Associates Publisher's Note, October 2008: As a result of the economic downturn occurring in September 2008, companies worldwide tightened their belts and started cutting budgets for everything that didn't appear to drive sales and profitability, including IT budgets. But is that the best strategy? In March 2008, we published an article by Dr. CJ Rhoads in which she anticipated the current events and advised companies to remain level-headed and even take advantage of the coming slowdown. That advice was true in March, and even more so today. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 07 November 2008 12:51 |
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Written by Maria DeGiglio
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:00 |
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IT employees must develop multiple strategies to protect their jobs during this economic upheaval.  By Maria A. DeGiglio Cathie Black--media mogul, president of Hearst Magazines, and author of the book Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life)--was interviewed recently on NBC's Weekend Today (remember, folks, I only watch the best on TV; I am also a devotee of South Park and Family Guy) for tips on how to avoid losing one's job during the economic crisis. "Be essential," was her reply. Also, be indispensible and/or irreplaceable. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 October 2008 15:18 |
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Written by Maria DeGiglio
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:00 |
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While each generation has left its imprimatur upon the workplace environment, the old workplace paradigms are arrantly still in effect today. By Maria A. DeGiglio Remember the 1990 movie Joe Versus the Volcano with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan? Recall the office scene with Joe, a veritable drone, in his cold, lackluster, monochromatic office, going through the motions of working under the flickering fluorescent light bulbs? Bingo! |
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 September 2008 11:07 |
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Written by Chris Smith
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:00 |
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IBM Labs comes up with novel idea to make the Web more accessible. And we can help. By Chris Smith For some reason, when I think of the size of the World Wide Web, I think of that scene at the end of The Perfect Storm where fisherman Bobby Shatford (played by Mark Wahlberg) swims up and away from the sinking Andrea Gail to emerge on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean only to see a limitless--and hopeless--panorama of high seas and wind-whipped waves. As of the middle of this week, the closest estimate of the total number of indexed Web pages found on the World Wide Web is at least 27.77 billion (see WorldWideWebSize.com). Thinking about taking any universal applicable action on this--including reading all the pages or even a portion of them--seems simply overwhelming. |
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