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April 3, 2014
Liking My New Computer Tie
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Funny..."Load Your Preferences." ;-) (Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Records Manager Appreciation Day!
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Records Management is not about 45s, 33s, or 8-track music collections, but managing key document and electronic records. It's criti...
April 2, 2014
Leadership Training, Where?
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Rapid Learning Institute (RLI) has toilet training for leaders. No, not toilet training, but T.O.I.L.E.T. training: T ime O ptimized ...
April 1, 2014
$5 to Plop Someone In the Face
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Everyone in Washington, D.C. is Spring Crazy today. Outside, kids raising money for Strike Out Illiteracy. For $5 donation, yo...
Why Do People Take The Cheese Off?
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So my question of the day is why do people feel it's okay to take the cheese off the delicious macaronic AND cheese? While I...
March 30, 2014
Corporate Dictators Gone Wild
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Interesting book review in the Wall Street Journal on Moments of Impact-- corporate strategy meetings. The authors, Ertel and Solomo...
March 29, 2014
Will You Take The Next Exit Or Not?
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I'm not really into the psychic stuff. First, I learned in Yeshiva that we are not supposed to divine the future. Second, I don&...
March 28, 2014
So It Really Is A Popularity Contest
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Good, Sue Shellenbarger in the Wall Street Journal finally said it..."likability matters more than ever at work." Yes, you ...
March 27, 2014
10 Keys To Influencing And Selling Anything
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Brilliant video by Kendra Eash for McSweeney's Internet Tendency . It is made entirely with stock footage from Dissolve . What is a...
March 25, 2014
Top 100 Most Social CIOs
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Thank you Huffington Post--article here on Top 100 Most Social CIOs. I never thought that an introvert like me could end up in a li...
March 23, 2014
Six Internet Creepoids To Beware Of
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There are a lot of basket cases out there--both in the physical world and in the virtual one. The New York Times today has an article b...
March 22, 2014
The Bigger Smaller Navy
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So our Navy is shrinking for real, but growing on the books. Steve Cohen writes in the Wall Street Journal how the "U.S. Navy is s...
March 21, 2014
Safely Detonate That Malware
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I like the potential of the FireEye Malware Protection System (MPS). Unlike traditional signature-based malware protections like antivi...
March 20, 2014
Fighting Someone Who Doesn't Care
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Today, an editorial by Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal said it outright about Putin's land grab of Crimea and his vie...
March 17, 2014
Time To Spread The Magic
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So I'm not the biggest fan of Disney theme parks -- maybe that is not a popular thing to write. But to me, the rides alternate bet...
March 16, 2014
There's No Line In Online
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I loved the article in the Wall Street Journal By Andy Kessler. Kessler's point is that technology is all about convenience. ...
March 15, 2014
U.S. To Give Up U.S.?
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This is just ridiculous already...I mean why do we even bother to try, if as a nation we are just resigned to give up. 1. Russia takes C...
It Can Happen To Anyone
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Life is unpredictable. Today, at the pool, someone collapsed. Looks like a heart attack or something serious. Most of the p...
March 14, 2014
Guns And Roses
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This was an interesting student portrayal showing decision on whether someone is a friend or foe--I like it! On the face of it, is a com...
March 12, 2014
Terrorism - Is it Going Away?
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Going on 13 years since 9/11... - Ukraine invaded by Russia seeking to annex Crimea - Malaysia Airline with 239 aboard missing and s...
March 11, 2014
Be, Be Yourself
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I thought this was a cute sign in the elevator at Safeway. "Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken." Why they put th...
March 10, 2014
Naked And Yelled At
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So true story...I'm in the changing room at the pool. There is a guy there, just a few feet away, naked. The pool supervisor co...
March 9, 2014
SCADA in Pictures
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So SCADA are Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems. They are a form of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that m...
March 8, 2014
Security Is A Joke!
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Fascinating video with Dan Tentler on the Shodan Search Engine...which CNN calls the "scariest search engine on the Internet." ...
March 7, 2014
We're Giving It All Away
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Nice little video from Mandiant on "The anatomy of a cyber attack." Despite the typical firewalls, antivirus, and intrusion de...
March 6, 2014
Beware of Botnets
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Interesting video demonstration of how botnets work and can literally take over your computer. In essence, your computer becomes a zombi...
March 4, 2014
A Different Definition For IV&V
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In IT circles, IV&V generally refers to Independent Verification and Validation, but for CIOs another important definition for leading...
March 3, 2014
Rejuvenate Like A Starfish
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Good video on centralization vs. decentralization. A spider is the model of a centralized organism or organization--cut of the head and t...
March 2, 2014
Restraint or Recklessness?
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Like many of you, as I watch the events unfold with the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, I am amazed at the "restraint" bei...
March 1, 2014
First We Must Live
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I liked this advertisement for the movie sequel to the 300 coming out this week. Anyway, for this scary-looking dude, "War is in m...
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