The financial ignorance of the Average American is so widespread, that you — yes you: sitting in your cubicle, making close to six figures at a stable white collar job — you are probably sitting next to someone who’s financially...
Steve Aschburner’s article on Mike Miller’s surprising drop in productivity contains a nice gem from Don Nelson: “My first years with Nash, he wanted to be John Stockton,” Nelson said. “He wanted to get 10 points and 15 assists. I...
From an SI article on the success of the San Antonio Spurs, a quote from Jacob Riis which coach Greg Popovich uses to help his players gain perspective: “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away...
An interesting story (with some heated comments) with regards to a recent move by Spansion: While Spansion Inc. was cutting 35 percent of its workforce, or 3,000 jobs on Monday, the company’s board was restoring full pay to its top...
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I recently finished up Eric Brechner’s I.M. Wright’s Hard Code. One of the more interesting aspects of development and project management that he brings up is the concept of working depth first as opposed to breadth first. Too often, I...
I encountered an interesting problem while working with our FirstPoint Office add-in (one of the many joys of working with the Office API!). In this case, a call to ActiveDocument.CanCheckIn() would return true, even when the value was clearly false. Testing...
Got myself a Bialetti cappucino/latte set this week. I have to say, I’m pretty impressed. Check out the results for yourself: It comes with a milk frother cup, which worked out really well. Check out my Amazon review: I’m a...
Heroin in Afghanistan A cool story on how some enterprising individuals are working to battle the heroin trade originating in Afghanistan: A former homeless drug abuser from Swindon is the unlikely champion of an initiative that aims to fight Afghanistan’s...
Well, so far anyways: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3981697/Scientists-plan-to-ignite-tiny-man-made-star.html While it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years, scientists now believe that they are on brink of cracking one of the biggest problems in physics by harnessing the power of nuclear fusion,...