Technology
Choosing the Right Lighting Options to Save Money
In a recent article called “The Light Bulb Showdown” on The Simple Dollar blog there was an analysis of the best deal between LED, CFL, and incandescent light bulbs. While this may not be the most exciting discussion it is noteworthy because it happens to be one of the easiest ways for consumers to [...]
Living with My Head in the Cloud
Over the past couple year’s career changes have made me a much more mobile professional and as such I have become heavily reliant on my laptop, wireless, mobile internet, and Blackberry. I have also shifted my work, reading, and communications patterns over time to become more efficient and effective in my personal and professional [...]
Save Time Printing Files in Batches
I was reading a recent post on lifehacker that describes how to use Automator on a Mac to print documents in batches which inspired me to comment on a simple technique I have used for many years. Like most corporate employees I work with a shared network attached printer. The hassles of leaving my desk [...]
Four Tools Technologists Need to Remain Effective
Image via Wikipedia In a recent survey of technology workers that allowed 330 respondents to choose their four most critical tools to ensure productivity from a list of eight: Laptop Desktop PC VPN access Mobile Phone Blackberry Desk Phone Video Conferencing Assigned desk The results were interesting because the priorities were listed as: Laptop (88%) [...]
How I Use Twitter
I have been using Twitter for a number of months both to connect with others online in conversation as well as managing my status updates. Although the technology is referred to as micro blogging I have found it is more interactive than traditional blogging. Since I allow Twitter to update my Facebook profile and FriendFeed [...]
Social Media for Business Users 101
In a recent article on TwiTip Darren Rowse provide a number of hint for Twitter users who are looking to interact for business purposes. While these tips apply to Twitter they reach much further into other social sites. Be more interested in helping than making money. Create relationships first. Introduce your company at [...]
50 Most Influential People in Business IT
Recently Baseline released a slide show of the 50 Most Influential People in Business IT that includes the likes of many of the technology thought leaders, CIOs and CEOs of extremely influential companies. While there are many obvious names on the list there are many not so obvious. I found the list to be inspirational [...]
Outlook Macro: Flag and Move Message to Follow-up Folder
As my readers know I follow many of the Getting Things Done methods and when it comes to e-mail I try (usually unsuccessfully) to keep my inbox uncluttered. In Outlook there is a great feature called Flags that will turn an e-mail into an item on the To-Do list without creating a task. Of course [...]
Fighting Against Alternative Fuel is For the Birds!
I was reading an article in my local newspaper this morning in which a lawsuit was has been filed for an injunction against building a wind farm in south Texas. As I read the article I was disappointed that this is another example of why alternate energy policies are destine for failure in the United [...]
Wow! The WordPress Upgrade Was Easy
I just completed the WordPress 2.6 upgradd and it was incrediably easy. The instructions simply tell you to backup the previous version, delete the previous files, run the upgrade program and thats it. Following the client upgrade you will be prompted to upgrade your plugins; for fortunatly all the plugins I use had an automatic [...]
