by | Tuesday | Business, Business Strategy, focus
My mother has Alzheimer’s. She’s been in a nursing facility since February of 2005, and she’s more or less bed ridden. One of the many negative effects of Alzheimer’s is rapid memory loss to the point family members’ names are forgotten and some members get forgotten...
by | Saturday | Business Opinion, Business Strategy, Buzz, Sales / Marketing, Word of Mouth
I’m sure many of you have read or heard about the Microsoft blogger “scandal.” If not, click here to read an E-Week piece on it if you wish. To summarize, Microsoft and AMD sent some prominent bloggers a honking Vista based laptops for them to test...
by | Wednesday | career, focus, strategic planning, time management
I engaged in an interesting activity today that shed a little light into why I’ve been so maxed out of late. I worked on a spreadsheet that broke down my hourly activities to quantify where the time goes and whether there are any areas I can reallocate hours...
by | Sunday | Business Strategy, musings, Sports
Among my circle of friends, we have a running inside joke about our favorite sports teams achieving “sponsorship” from a fictitious company called “Medicore” when they’re average at best. We don’t accept mediocrity (the company...
by | Saturday | General, holidays, rant
I’m happy to report I’m more or less finished with the Christmas shopping chores for 2006, but I’m rather disappointed in myself again. This was to be THE year I got all of that stuff done in September or October instead of waiting until December to...