Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Competitive Edge

December 1, 2010

Creativity

Found a Backupify blog on controlling employee access to social media odd. Preventing employees from discussing work on social media may help, but really you need to operate like the Manhattan Project. Sequester them in a town you build in the middle of nowhere, go through all of their correspondence paper or electronic, and control…
Special Characters Are Meaningful Too

November 24, 2010

Algorithm, Unix / Comp Languages

Dear Google, When you treat special characters such as underscores, colons, and hyphens as a space, you corrupt my search for a single term into multiple terms, aka not what I sought, so I get too many useless results. Function names, class names, or file Â names ought to be treated as a single word not…
If you won a $1,000 shopping spree for any store, which store would you pick?

November 20, 2010

Uncategorized

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ to get one decent camera lens. Ask me anything
If you could have a super power, what would it be?

November 20, 2010

Uncategorized

Control the minds of others. Ask me anything
formspring.me

November 20, 2010

Uncategorized

Ask me anything http://formspring.me/sneezypb
Communication

November 16, 2010

Communication

A while ago, there was some kind of difficulty understanding why we (the DBAs) and another group were unable to read the same words yet not draw the same conclusion. The words in bold are what I wrote on my white board explaining why there was a difficulty. Communication Vocabulary Standards: Words have agreed upon…
LMS Non-Negotiables

November 15, 2010

Blackboard Vista

I listened in on the first town hall meeting for our USG LMS Transition Task Force on Thursday. There are 3 more town halls this week and a final one December 9th. It sounds like the task force is looking for what items are non-negotiable, extremely important, nice to have. Here are the non-negotiable items…
Teeshirt Roundup

November 13, 2010

Geek / Nerd / Dork

Recently, Patrick asked how many geeky teeshirts do I have? I have 17 unique shirts. (Bought multiples of a few.) Bruce asked how many have a picture on Facebook? He had posted many of the pictures of me and most of those involve a geeky teeshirt. Thinkgeek Shirts got root? /Everyone stand back/ I know…
Things We Can Live Without

November 11, 2010

Toys

We have a tendency toÂ over-exaggerateÂ what will make us either happy or sad. That gadget, clothing, car, etc. probably will not turn the world into a Utopia. So I found this Profhacker post, “Things We Can Live Without” interesting. I donâ€™t mean annoying things we could do without, like complaints about grades or being stuck in…