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Honey I just blew up the ERP

Sigurd Rinde, one of my Irregular pals is also one of the sharpest people I know. He constantly challenges the status quo in a creative way. This morning's offering made me smile: Good thing about working from home is that I can watch webstreams from conferences -...

Tags: Innovation, Business Process, Accounting, Crowdsourcing, ERP, Sig, Dick, Steve, Effectiveness, Operational Planning, Web 2.0, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-29

After the wake-up call: time to focus on our young talent

After the wake-up call: time to focus on our young talentPersonallyI'm hoping for a realization that government is the problem never the solution, and that all governments tend toward tyranny, so you keep them as freaking small and weak as possible, not hand them your life hoping they'll suckle you...

Tags: Vertical industries, Workforce management, government, talent

Discussion threads 2008-12-06

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Blogosphere declares open season on Cheney

Blogosphere declares open season on CheneyNot Cheney...Don't go after Cheney, go after the White House spokesman who said they wanted to first focus on the attorney's medical issues before announcing it.Correct me if I'm wrong, but how exactly does a White House spokesman figure into medical practice? I really...

Tags: Games, blogosphere, Cheney, Dick, white stain

Discussion threads 2006-02-14

Move over "Friends" and "Seinfeld." Here comes Java, the series.

Ask the average Tom, Dick, or Harriett what Java is and chances are they'll probably tell you it's either a nickname for coffee or an Indonesian island.  Ask the same Tom, Dick, or Harriett what Windows is, and they'll tell you it's what runs their computers in their offices and at...

Tags: Ask, Tom, Java, Dick

Blog posts 2004-07-08

Additional Resources

Electric Sheep 2.7b19 (Windows)

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the...

Tags: Screensaver, Animation, Microsoft Windows, Computer, ElectricSheep.org, Productivity, Open Source

Software downloads 2009-11-08

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Wondershare PPT2DVD 6.0.2.8 (Windows)

Wondershare PPT2DVD is a reputed tool designed for easily creating high quality DVD movies and videos from PowerPoint presentations by retaining animations, sounds, video clips and even links between slides. Why do you ever want to convert PowerPoint to DVD? Easy sharing PowerPoint is powerful for creating engaging presentations but...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft PowerPoint, Wondershare Software, Wondershare PPT2DVD, Sharing PowerPoint, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Office, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Strangest Windows 7 promotion

Bloated?Are they saying Windows 7 is bloatware?RE: Strangest Windows 7 promotionNo Fat Tax ?RE: Strangest Windows 7 promotionIts a metaphor. Everyone is going to want a taste of Microsoft Windows 7.The Real QuestionThe real question is whether sales of the Windows Vista Whopper will now tank....yeap, that's a clever punch...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, whopper

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Can a BlackBerry watch succeed where SPOT watches failed?

Oh no another gadget ...where's my card statement Before I begin, let it be know that I am a true gadget geek therefore my judgment is not functioning at full power. I still have a Timex Data-Link (contacts, appointments) do I use it, No. I...

Tags: Bluetooth, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, BlackBerry Watch, RIM BlackBerry, towel

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Microsoft hires digital-identity/open-source maven Dick Hardt

It appears that most Americans supportShould Microsoft be quaking in its boots this time? I?d like to say yes ? after all, who doesn?t love a good fight? But given Google?s track record in this space, I?m inclined to say no.RE: Microsoft hires digital-identity/open-source maven Dick HardtShould Microsoft...

Tags: Dick Hardt, quaking, Google?s, I?d, Microsoft Corp., I?m

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

a whole string of international meetings aimed at coming to some kind of globally acceptable agreement on global warming. Consider this a warm-up for the sci fi imagined event of the killer asteroid headed our way. Can humans really co-operate on the mega-scale? We haven't so far....

Tags: Agreement, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pittsburgh, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Amazon makes up for '1984' snafu but the chapter isn't over

Uh huh...Yet another reason to buy hard copy. Write your notes in it. And have to worry neither about it getting electronically "pulled" from you, nor about "the committee" taking stock of the type of annotations you have written they may be quite politically incorrect!How ironic that this...

Tags: Storage, Amazon.com Inc., snafu

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Works of P. G. Wodehouse. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography & article in the trial 10.2 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Autobiographical NovelPiccadilly JimThe PothuntersA Prefect

Software downloads 2009-09-03

Windows 7 to sell in UK for half the US price

Summer exchangeHow about I send my daughter for her summer student exchange to you guys in the USA loaded up with Windows 7 DVDs ... and you send your child with new PC and ADOBE software purchased on that side of the pond?We'll split the difference in cash.You can keep...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Sony Ericsson taps Nordberg as new CEO; Stringer as board chairman

Struggling handset maker Sony Ericsson said on Monday techmeme that chief executive Dick Komiyama would retire at the end of the year, naming Ericsson executive Bert Nordberg to take the helm from October 15. Adding to the executive musical chairs, the firm also...

Tags: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Board, Cell Phone, Ericsson Inc., Cellular Phones, Corporate Governance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?

Parents with Save / Train, that's what they are there for.for many parents today, this is new to them since the older you get, the less change you want to see. At a younger age, you're more inclined to adapt. Another thing is, more parents are getting home...

Tags: Save/Train, social media, Horror

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Target's departure from Amazon creates IT risk; Opportunity for GSI Commerce?

Target plans to leave Amazon's e-commerce platform to build its own site ahead of the 2011 holiday season. The transition is going to be one of the more visible IT projects in the next two years. Amazon will take a bit of a profit hit from the...

Tags: Information Technology, GSI Commerce Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Target.com, E-business, Target, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Retail, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Auvio In-Ear Armature Headphones (blue)

It seems like every Tom, Dick, and Harry is putting out headphones these days, and far be it for Radio Shack to be left out in the cold. The electronics retailer is turning out a line of earphones sporting the brand name Auvio. The line includes a handful of models...

Tags: Branding, Auvio In-Ear headphone, earpiece

Product reviews 2009-07-30

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towers

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towerscome on keep politics out of it"It?s good to know not every scare tactic from the Bush Administration has been eradicated. Things like companies yelling ?terrorism? to protect their bottom lines are still in good stead."Yada yada. Don't care. Bush isn't President...

Tags: Apple Inc., cell tower, Bush, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-07-30