When your house is worth nothing and our economy is completely in the tank (soon), you will have the gentleman below to thank.  Rep. Barney Frank wanted to give people something for nothing.  Want a house?  No problem.  No down payment, no income to pay your mortgage, no nuth’n.  And to the bitter end, the honorable Rep. [...]

Recently, I have been receiving a lot of spam through my email at work, Organizational Announcements.  I am getting these emails more often than viagra or cialis email and the spam filters don’t seem to catch these.  You know the ones:
I am pleased to announce that Josephine Smosephine has been promoted to Director of Sales.  [...]

My latest journey to Asia (1 week in Japan, 2 weeks in Singapore) is coming to a close and the desire to be home is growing very strong.  During these times, I have a tendency to wonder why I do what I do.  Weeks at a time away from my family, living in a hotel, [...]

I achieved a milestone on my latest trip to SE Asia, I became a 1K member in my “preferred carrier’s” frequent flyer program.  Even if they send the obligatory “Congratulations!” letter, I won’t get to read it for the next couple weeks because this is a long trip.  But that doesn’t stop me from imagining what the [...]

It is with fear and trepidation that I enter this week.  The reason?  Next week, I will be required to change my password on our LAN, an event that now occurs at least once per quarter.  Why should this cause anxiety?  Three reasons:

It will take me a week to figure out a good password that [...]

A warning:  This post is going to get revised a lot over the next few days, weeks, and months.  A few reasons:  First, it is an EXTREMELY important topic for publically traded  American companies.  Second, it is sucking the life out of publically traded American companies.  The fine folks at Wikipedia have been working on this topic [...]

I don’t know if Tom Peters is serious with his question, “Should I buy SAP or invest in my team?“, but it seems like we could give him advice. After implementing 7 domestic sites and 7 international sites on SAP (and 5 more international site to go), you would think we would be experts at answering [...]

I have noticed an alarming trend in email lately; changing the subject in the body of the email without changing the subject line of the email. So, why is this a problem? For me personally, there are three primary reasons:
Reason One. I am trying to avoid the annoying email administrator emails that state, “You have [...]