Archives: work
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How to beat workday blues?:
My tips on how to actually feel good doing work. (568 Words)
[August 15, 2014 05:37 PM]
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Quick script to maintain a diary:
This is easy in bash; posting it to help people stuck in Windows XP. (212 Words)
[July 30, 2010 11:30 AM]
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10 annoying office phrases:
My additions to a good list. aka how to survive a recession and have fun too! (163 Words)
[July 05, 2009 09:41 PM]
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Switch!:
Change of jobs. Change of technologies. (65 Words)
[June 21, 2005 05:57 PM]
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Excellent article on outsourcing:
Definitely not a link to forget. (247 Words)
[January 28, 2004 07:47 AM]
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Language skills for programmers:
Joel apparently gets annoyed by improper punctuation. (206 Words)
[January 26, 2004 01:19 PM]
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Process Change:
Outline of a presentation about the subject. In plain English. No buzzwords. (419 Words)
[November 12, 2003 06:40 PM]
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Offshore outsourcing or domestic process fixes?:
Domestic process fixes may be more cost-effective than outsourcing; but are they feasible? (807 Words)
[November 03, 2003 11:30 PM]
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Two sides of a fence:
An excellent article on "Communications Between Technical Professionals And Their Managers" (221 Words)
[October 10, 2003 07:16 AM]
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Grasso Quits:
NYSE regulator with exorbitant pay quits under pressure. (100 Words)
[September 17, 2003 08:00 PM]
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3 signs of a dysfunctional company:
Very good article from bCentral (104 Words)
[September 03, 2003 11:40 AM]
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Bringing Business Presentations To Life:
Absolutely right-on-the-point - and well written - article about the major waste of corporate time: PowerPoint presentations! (225 Words)
[August 02, 2003 08:48 AM]
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Outsourcing notes:
Some notes about outsourcing IT services in a non-IT company; from an ex-outsourcee. (739 Words)
[July 30, 2003 09:20 AM]
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Blaze of glory:
A very nice true story. Made me write my opinions a little bit; about usual management (non)-sense. (503 Words)
[July 28, 2003 12:19 PM]
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New job title!:
I got a new - and saner (IMO) - job title. (80 Words)
[May 07, 2003 10:35 AM]
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Omni Important:
Do you mark all mails you send as "Important"? Don't! (128 Words)
[April 09, 2003 06:45 AM]
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Spacecraft Design:
"Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is, at best, only an opinion." (372 Words)
[April 07, 2003 01:55 PM]
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Columns every IT manager should read:
Don't spend thousands for big consulting firms, just read these columns or use your common sense. (69 Words)
[March 31, 2003 10:07 AM]
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Big Business in America:
A perfect example of corporate America... Does this sound familiar? (265 Words)
[March 24, 2003 09:00 AM]
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QOTD - ideas!:
After 3 weeks of vacation, I got a nice fortune cookie... (66 Words)
[March 17, 2003 12:10 PM]
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Planning thoughts:
Thinking about writing thoughts on measuring work related stuff. (258 Words)
[February 06, 2003 09:16 PM]
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Giant sucking noise:
Thoughts after reading a recent article about off-shoring higher end jobs. (735 Words)
[February 01, 2003 07:01 PM]
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Pitfalls of taking charge:
The big problem with management: in a word, managers. (210 Words)
[January 05, 2003 08:20 AM]
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Musings on TEAMWORK:
Is WORK getting sidelined in TEAMWORK these days? (315 Words)
[January 03, 2003 10:27 AM]
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My pickle jar - Excel and Dates:
Getting information from date columns in Excel (421 Words)
[December 31, 2002 10:59 AM]
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My pickle jar - Introduction:
Notes on how I manage my time at work. (305 Words)
[December 31, 2002 10:36 AM]
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What is leadership?:
Some arbitrary thoughts about leadership (497 Words)
[December 17, 2002 05:58 PM]
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Letting it go:
Phil Windley resigns. (143 Words)
[December 04, 2002 01:57 PM]
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Quality Software Management vol 3:
Looks like a terrific book that has very good analysis. (189 Words)
[November 21, 2002 06:20 AM]
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Managing your company to death:
Great subject. Heated discussion. (216 Words)
[October 25, 2002 07:40 AM]
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What makes IT drain money?:
Everyone knows IT helps regular business. Why have very few people seen good ROI then? (489 Words)
[October 21, 2002 05:37 PM]
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Incubating employee's ideas:
One company gets it right to foster innovation from the ground up. (191 Words)
[October 09, 2002 06:21 AM]
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Layoff signs!:
Seven signs to watch out for! (105 Words)
[October 02, 2002 07:19 AM]
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Lining up for jobs:
Where do I stand with the current environment? (546 Words)
[September 15, 2002 08:44 AM]
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Job Interviews:
Bad economy is slowly changing my interests! (42 Words)
[September 15, 2002 07:40 AM]
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Culture of candor:
Here's another great article. Being polite without being honest doesn't help a team! (460 Words)
[September 12, 2002 06:39 PM]
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Seven Tenets for Business Prosperity:
A great presentation (69 Words)
[September 12, 2002 02:47 PM]
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Techies and management:
I think techies can make good managers too. Initial thoughts on this. (178 Words)
[August 28, 2002 08:33 AM]
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Women are better managers?:
Another one of those articles derived from "studies". (284 Words)
[August 28, 2002 06:32 AM]
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What if Honda made software?:
Honda's principles are very simple and sensible. Perhaps these should be used in software development. (707 Words)
[August 22, 2002 07:09 AM]
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Annual reviews:
Most companies set aside a special week or month each year for that dreaded ritual: employee performance reviews. (360 Words)
[August 21, 2002 08:01 AM]
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Dealing with a difficult boss:
Some tips from MSN on how to tackle a difficult boss. (512 Words)
[August 19, 2002 07:01 AM]
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Understanding and Outsourcing:
Great stories from the Shark Tank! (21 Words)
[August 12, 2002 08:59 AM]
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Setting goals!:
Absolutely helpful article when you boss wants you to come up with goals for the year. (52 Words)
[August 11, 2002 12:14 PM]
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Outsourcing!:
You can't outsource city hall! (77 Words)
[August 02, 2002 06:40 AM]
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Project management for programmers:
Raging slashdot discussion: "I'm a senior web developer in a medium sized company where the project managers have no programming... (186 Words)
[June 21, 2002 01:16 PM]
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Why do collaboration tools fail?:
One opinion is that quest to maintain existing power structure is to blame. (516 Words)
[June 20, 2002 06:10 AM]
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Job stress management:
MSN Careers: "Bill Delano, founder of Job Stress Help, an Internet service that provides confidential, individualized advice via email to... (56 Words)
[May 29, 2002 06:14 AM]
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Information is passe:
The Week: "Chief information officer to chief knowledge officer. Will businesses now need a chief wisdom officer? " Pretty good... (250 Words)
[May 27, 2002 07:50 AM]
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Managing time and stress:
Stress is anything that disturbs your healthy mental or physical well being. Isolation, overwork and poor time management all breed stress. Here are some guidelines to make it a little easier on yourself. (477 Words)
[May 21, 2002 09:21 AM]
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SME Webmasters:
Evolt.org has an article on how working for small and medium enterprises offer unique challenges, where you've to fill in... (267 Words)
[May 18, 2002 07:09 PM]
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Meetings:
A forwarded email about meetings. (87 Words)
[May 10, 2002 09:28 AM]
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Think you're having a bad day...:
Next time you have a bad day at work, think of this guy. Rob is a commercial saturation diver for... (570 Words)
[May 03, 2002 07:06 AM]
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Improving efficiency in IT teams:
May be it is because of the stellar economy during late 1990's when IT workers were very valuable. But the... (971 Words)
[April 28, 2002 07:52 AM]
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Why is open source REALLY better?:
Often, at work, I get to hear that most people prefer open source because it is free as in free... (892 Words)
[April 25, 2002 06:34 PM]
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Hanson's treatment of time:
"There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday." This morning's fortune cookie when... (23 Words)
[April 23, 2002 05:37 AM]
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Slashdot: games at work:
Slashdot is running a discussion on games in the workplace. Apparently newer games don't allow for Escape or ALT-F4 to... (77 Words)
[April 20, 2002 06:36 PM]
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What I missed in 3 years!:
A brief look back into my career on the wings of a morning tea! (150 Words)
[April 12, 2002 06:01 AM]
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QOTD - Einstein:
Albert Einstein - "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits". Amen! Saw it on a site... (43 Words)
[April 03, 2002 10:12 AM]
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One year at the new job:
On this April fool's day, I celebrate my first anniversary at The Nature Conservancy. It has been an eventful year... (192 Words)
[April 01, 2002 06:52 AM]
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QOTD:
I got this from fortune this morning - "Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve. Success is also... (47 Words)
[March 31, 2002 11:31 AM]
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Does efficiency cause career stagnation?:
Does being efficient prevent you from advancing your career? I had some really intense discussion about this today and I... (905 Words)
[March 26, 2002 10:02 PM]
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Internet and training:
I'm in a training for 4 hours now. It is a terrific location, with good computers and good internet connectivity.... (77 Words)
[March 12, 2002 04:07 PM]
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When good software goes bad:
What to do when you are *asked* to install software from a very powerful vendor and if it doesn't work... (63 Words)
[March 12, 2002 04:04 PM]
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Infocetera:
I was looking for an outliner and chanced upon Infocetera. It is an amazing tool that can implement a full-featured... (67 Words)
[March 11, 2002 12:14 PM]
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Taking less responsibility:
MSN article on lightening the workload without killing your career. Somewhat useful article. I strongly believe that one should take... (66 Words)
[March 06, 2002 08:00 AM]
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Busy busy day:
Very busy day at work since yesterday. How many lucky souls out there get to fix and tune an existing... (73 Words)
[March 05, 2002 09:17 AM]
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Office making you sick?:
Are You a Victim of Sick Building Syndrome? "Modern air conditioning can help, as long as the system is maintained... (44 Words)
[February 28, 2002 12:55 PM]
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The Cc: soup!:
Here is an issue that has been annoying me from time to time. I'd love to know your opinions on... (210 Words)
[February 26, 2002 07:01 PM]