My family recently moved to the northern Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta. We found a house that needed a few fix-ups, and some of those take contractors (I’m handy, but I’m not a skilled craftsman). Anyway, the way most contractors act, you’d have a hard time believing there’s a “recession of history proportions” underway. Most never [...]
Video rental titan Blockbuster might be unable to continue operating. According to auditors and Blockbuter’s executives, the retailer is struggling to meet lender conditions to secure a loan for it to continue operations. Pundits point to the success of Netflix as the main reason of Blockbuster’s troubles. I don’t think it’s that simple. Consumers are [...]
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If you’re an early adopter, then Sony is out to punish you. Blu-ray Disc Players that support BD-Live (aka, Profile 2.0 players) will be receiving advertising for other Sony Blu-ray titles. This reminds me of the classic movie A Christmas Story. Ralphie anxiously awaits delivery of his Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring so he can [...]
The Stimulus Bill passed both Houses of Congress and is headed to President Obama’s desk for a signature. After reading and hearing about the contents of the Stimulus Bill, my concern is that it’s 98% spending and 2% tax cuts. That’s not a very good ratio. BTW, all the talk about this package ushering in [...]
Congress outsmarted itself while hammering out a compromise between House and Senate versions of the mammoth stimulus package (childishly referred to as ‘spendulus’ by FoxNews.com). The US$15,000 home buyer’s tax credit was removed from the bill. In its place is an $8,000 credit for first-time home buyers, up from $7,500 credit that was already available. [...]
TechRepublic’s Scott Lowe has an insightful article on using some valuable, low-priced services to start your own small business. Sounds crazy in a down economy, but recessions can offer unique opportunities like relatively lower initial investments. My 2 cents: Stay away from Mozy for backup service. I’ve read that while it’s easy to backup, it [...]
I just wasted a few minutes of my life reading Andrew Filev’s take on Project Management 2.0 over at TechRepublic. He states the obvious very, very well. Email is the de facto communication standard, but there’s too much of it. The disjointed information structure that any Inbox presents becomes a black hole for knowledge. We’ve [...]
Here at Massive Dynamic, I experienced an unexpected problem of using virtualization: Determining its cost. We provide services to one of our customers on a cost-plus contract. Anything we do, we must associate an objective cost and then add a percentage (sometimes called a burden rate). We determined that a really easy way to provide [...]
CNBC has the skinny on office decorating costs of Merrill Lynch’s former CEO, John Thain. The biggest splash (no pun intended) is the uproar over a $35K commode. The misconception here is that a commode is a toilet when it’s actually a handwashing table with drawers. Still, $35K is quite an extravagance. The point here [...]
