Today is the day. While I’m on-call for another week, and will return to the office next Friday for a cake&coffee with the team, I’m leaving the company that I’ve been with for 15 years (give or take a month). That’s 15 years through 7 different jobs: Research Assistant Staff Writer Marketing Project Manager...
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Interesting page on trying to search Google: Apparently, Google thinks I’m a bad guy running an automated query. I get the same result from Firefox’s search box as at Google’s own home page. Odd! Off to Yahoo!
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Here’s a photo that I took on our second or third day in Hawaii: the legendary and iconic rainbow tower of the Hilton Hawaiian Village hotel on Waikiki beach in Oahu:
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This is where Twitter comes in handy … proof that it’s not just me. WordPress downloads are not working right now – when you click on the download link, you simply get an empty page. I first thought it must be a problem on my end,...
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I feel like one of the seagulls in Pixar’s Finding Nemo. When they see lunch in the form of Nemo and his sidekick exposed on a dock, they all start shouting “mine, mine, mine, mine” and swoop in for a bite. A colleague who knows I drive a Mini just sent me a link...
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I noticed with some degree of surprise this morning that I might know the future president of the US: Barack Obama. However, that’s exactly what LinkedIn‘s likeness algorithm told me. Perhaps I am more powerful than I know. Seriously, in the past months, LinkedIn’s “people you may know” feature has come up with some...
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This guy has it right … While you watch, run this slide presentation as well (hope your screen is big enough). That will give you the full flavor: IgnitePhilly View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ignitephilly education) (Thanks, Carl, for the link!)
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It’s been tough re-adjusting to normal life after our Hawaii trip. This morning was cold, wet, and punctuated by the arrival of 200+ stampeding emails flooding my work in-box. Ah well … it was great while it lasted. Every so often, I’m going to post pictures of what we did and saw in Hawaii...
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If you’ve noticed a lull in posting on Sparkplug 9 over the past 10 days, that’s because I’ve been on vacation with the whole family in Hawaii. It’s been amazing, and we’ve packed so much in that it’s seemed far longer than 10 days. Here’s a quick taste – just one of the 20...
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So SAP’s in some trouble … Adding fuel to the raging fire on which stock valuations are now burning, SAP (SAP) Co-CEO Henning Kagermann this morning warned in a statement that market developments of the last few weeks have been “dramatic and worrying to many businesses,” which has triggered a “very sudden and unexpected...
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Now this is interesting: Click through to get the version and see more of the social web than you ever wanted to know about.
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