There are some good tips in this article about protecting your privacy online, some of which might seem a bit extreme. I do, though, have one quarrel with the article that I’ve mentioned before. If you are just now concerned about online snooping because of the change in President, you simply haven’t been paying attention. The US government has been snooping on data for years.
Unspoken, but hinted around, in this article, is that employees who aren’t trusted, probably also don’t trust their employers, and then this is where we end up. “People who didn’t trust their employers were three times more likely to say that they felt tense on the job, and they were four times more likely to…
There’s a lot of good stuff in here for managers, and CEOs and anyone who has people who work for them, but I wanted to highlight this one: 2. Really have your employees’ backs. With mental health issues so common, it’s not a matter of if your employees will ever need support, it’s a matter…
Just a few things that have struck me about my new Vista machine: OK, so Dell announced on June 18 that they were going to allow customers the option to not have some pre-installed software. I ordered my system the week before that and saw that option, how new is it really? This system came…
When we moved into our new place at the end of October, and it turns out that the only available cable TV/internet bundle available to us is through Charter. It would not have been my first choice, given experiences I’ve heard from others, but it is what it is. I had U-Verse in my apartment,…
One of my many pet peeves with trying to use Google+ is the lame app for the iPhone and iPad, and the inability to do simple tasks even in the mobile version of the website. Seriously, just try and manage G+ pages, or add a link to your stream from a mobile device without jumping…
I was thinking last night for a little bit about that EULA for Windows 2000 SP3, and some things occurred to me that I hadn’t thought of before. Now I’ll probably get flamed like hell for saying this, but after I got over the original knee-jerk reaction, I could see why Microsoft is doing this….