If you want a personal update on where things are with me this week, go here. I think you’ll see why I haven’t been blogging much at all lately, and may not be for a while.
I did, in the midst of it all, catch this little story about MS cutting the price for Office and offering “home-use rights” again. That’s huge. Huge enough that I had to post it, even though I’m not in the mood to play “blogger” today. 🙂
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Updates on my week so far: Mac is still crashing. More graphics work has been lost. Possibly going to work exclusively booted into OS 9 for now. (It can’t hurt at this point..) Massive amounts of research done (Thanks to Google) to show that a company has made deceptive, if not outright false, statements to…
You know what, I hadn’t thought about this, but it is true. How differently we view a request for a call or quick online chat than we did just a few months ago?
“If you think now is a bad time to network it’s because you think networking is about events. It’s not. It’s about connection and conversation. And so, while now is a terrible time for events, it’s a great time for connection and conversation. All the more so because you can more easily expand your geographic reach. Asking for a Zoom call or even a phone call would have seemed awkward with some folks just a few months ago. Now it’s just how we do things. Which instantly expands the pool of potential connections. “
Quoted from a post at the Office Weblog concerning that study about home users and the lack of internet security tools in use. [quote]Do a friend or family member a favor and help them secure their PC with the free tools available to prevent virus and spyware attacks.[/quote] Something to think about as we head…
Because I’ve been in the “not putting up with any BS” mood all weekend, I present to you some critiques of things you commonly see online: As more information came in about the blogger hack, it is amazing how many people who immediately kicked in with their own “expert” opinions about what happened were so…
Interesting questions come to my mind as I read an email from a coworker about adding some stuff to email signatures as a way to promote an upcoming event. How many people actually read past the name field of a sig file? If you do, at what point does it become too long and you…