Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
The Network World article on telecommuting appears to be getting a lot of play this morning on the RSS feeds.
I agree with Daemon at the Web Worker Daily: Yeah, and your point?
I learned a long time ago that I would NEVER be happy as a do-nothing management hack (whoops! did I say that out loud?). [...]
In: RANTING
19 Aug 2006I’m with Kevin Burton on this.
The more restrictions they place on air travel the more our economy will suffer – which means the terrorists win.
Technorati Tags: Terrorism, capitalism, ryanair, economic+terrorism, relative+victory, Political+capital, politics
In: smp
19 Sep 2005At my real job, we monitor and report on the performance of a number of different e-commerce verticals.
[I will now try and stop using marketing-speak.]
In the retail index, the Gap has been down for nearly 3 weeks. Well, they have come part way up, but it is flaky, and they don’t have a search function.
No [...]
In: smp
12 Sep 2005Here you go. Read this.
New Orleans has exposed the lie that is the Melting Pot.
The United States is one white, christian nation, indivisible, except when profit is to be made.
Then slave labour is allowed.
In: smp
11 Sep 2005Don’t you love this country?
Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina
President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
Oh, and in the arrogant, rich, white people category, the award goes to Jefferson Parish near New Orleans. It seems that the righteous folks [...]
In: smp
3 Jun 2005Back in March I commented on some things that Dave Winer said about California Schools. [here]
The main point of the discussion was that the California Public School system is in a near third-world state (with apologies to the oppressed in the third-world) due to the short-sightedness and greed that grew out of Proposition 13.
Today, Tom [...]
In: smp
17 Apr 2005Spent Saturday prepping for a yard sale, and today we executed on the plan. Lot’s of geek books went cheap to deserving homes: a former full-time Linux admin who has been downgraded to working in a liquor store by the economy, and a grad student who nearly cried when he saw what I was selling [...]
In: Life
13 Feb 2005Received my order of LiveStrong Yellow bracelets on Friday. I am wearing mine right now, despite something that Samantha found. She flipped it over, and said “Oh look, Made in China“.
My heart sank. I m a firm believer in the global economy, but you woulda thunk that Lance Armstrong could have supported some US firm, [...]
In: RANTING
7 Feb 2005Great article on how FedEx needs automated customer tools, and humans too! [here]
The Takeaway.
For every anxious caller that FedEx diverts to its Web site, the company saves as much as $1.87. FedEx says its call centers handle 83,000 fewer calls per day than in 2000—currently 470,000 calls per day—a saving of $57.56 million per year. [...]
Immigration: Thoughts on the Green Card Process – A Personal Story
In: Canada| Commentary| Immigration
26 Aug 2008Being a Canadian in the United States for the last nine years has been an interesting adventure, to say the least. Although our nations are neighbours, there can be two more different approaches to the same problem so close to each other.
I can’t claim to be an expert on how Canada processes new immigrants, but [...]