A Tablet PC
Technically is this not a tablet PC? The letters PC on a tablet, and therefore by definition and grammatical rules of rearrangement, a tablet PC. Given our current culture’s allowance of Unnecessary Capitalization for the purposes of Emphasis, it is a Tablet PC. Now I understand how we can see them being sold for $10 a pop, [...]
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Who are you?
A Tablet PC
Technically is this not a tablet PC? The letters PC on a tablet, and therefore by definition and grammatical rules of rearrangement, a tablet PC. Given our current culture’s allowance of Unnecessary Capitalization for the purposes of Emphasis, it is a Tablet PC. Now I understand how we can see them being sold for $10 a pop, [...]
Let’s put the Fanboy-dom aside ...
Microsoft's Visual Studio Logo
I was a Java guy for 5 years when Java first came out, and then I was at Microsoft for 5 years when .NET first came out, and now having been outside of Microsoft for nearly 5 years (egad, that sums up my career right there). While Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch family of products have a lot of co [...]
Customers Adapt, Panic!
by http://www.sxc.hu/profile/ilco
There are a couple of prevailing philosophies when it comes to planning out a strategic endeavour. One of those philosophies is the Go Big OR Go Home! Another is the “A mouse would eat an elephant one bite at a time,” and variants there of.
The problems with the “Small and Steady” appr [...]
Dress for Success, but the right kind
Real Photo
I was at a big box store the other day, and saw this item on the shelf for sale (I removed the pricing, bar codes, etc to protect the undeserving innocent). Employees were regularly walking by, and ignored it. There was another item missing knobs right beside this one. No accountability, no interest, no nothin’. What type of [...]
Sense of Community
by http://www.sxc.hu/profile/hagit
This could go in a column called “What I learned at Microsoft” or “Lessons of a great kindergarden class”, or “The Rise and Fall of Community Man! A Failed sense of community.” All would be right and good and enjoyable, and bring us to the same point that it is vital for a [...]
Wisdom of the Wife
My wife said the other day that we could delay on the renovations but not delay the arrival of the baby, and that made me think about how many times I’ve needed a phrase like that on a project to get the message across. How many times have we all been in the situation where there were some decisions that needed to be addressed now, whil [...]
Of Goals and Lessons Learned
by http://www.sxc.hu/profile/christgr
Sometimes life just smacks you on the head to get you to stop doing what you’re doing and to get you to reflect. Then it throws a couple of “but that would have never happened if that smack on the head hadn’t happened” type stuff. Then she dusts you off, and sends you back into the [...]