The June issue of Inc magazine has a list of Ten Ideas for Launching Your Start-Up Right Now. The top startup ideas that interested me where environmental consultant, exam prep and tutoring, self-storage leasing, translation services, and mobile application design. The green sector is fastest growing area in the home construction and remodeling [...]
Tagged app, environment, green, iphone, storageI started reading 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview, by Ron Fry. The author states that there are basically only five key questions that most hiring managers want you to answer.
Can you do the job?
Will you do the job better than other interviewees?
Will you take the job if it is offered to [...]
I’ve always have a problem with security questions asked by banks and other financial institutions. For one part, these security questions are not really that secure and are easy to guess and reverse engineer. In 2008, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s email hacked by guessing the answers of security questions. [...]
Tagged bank, credit history, data, email, hack, mortage lender, obama, palin, privacy, security, security questionThe home of an elderly couple in Brooklyn, New York was visited by police “50 or so” times over a span of 8 years. If you’ve had the police come for a visit, you would know that they don’t bearing gifts. When the police come a knocking, they might pound your door in [...]
Tagged brooklyn, data, error, glitch, nyc, police, privacy, software, stateBetter, faster, cheaper. Pick any two
Integrity, validity, security. Pick any two
Strategy, execution, luck. Pick any two.
Profits, Passion, Purpose. Pick any two.
Manual, Error Prone, Time Consuming. Pick none!
Here is a draft post that has been waiting to be published. The October 2009 issue of Smart Money had a short list of top 10 Ways to Make Your Boss Love You. I think these are still applicable now.
Put in the hours-when it counts.
Empathize
Defuse a bad situation
Be a conduit
Ask for help
Connect the [...]
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. My question is, what would get if you have Shakespeare hitting a typewriter keyboard for an infinite [...]
Tagged infinity, monkey, shakespeare, theoremThe September issue of Forbes has a list of The World’s Most Powerful Women top 100 list. Here are the top 10 women, according to Forbes.
Angela Merkel
Sheila Bair
Indra Nooyi
Cynthia Carroll
Ho Ching
Irene Rosenfeld
Ellen Kullman
Angela Braly
Anne Lauvergeon
Lynn Elsehans
Tumblr is a one of those micro-blogging social sites, not to unfamiliar to Twitter or the current incarnation of Facebook. What I find unique about Tumblr is the community of artist that gravitate around the site. Here are my top fab five tumblrs for the month of September, 2009!!!
Intentionally Untitled
Eat. Sleep. Draw.
Battling Pink [...]
Twitter’s search is pretty much useless for research. Twitter’s search is not search at all, in the Google sense, but instead it is database query with hard coded limits. Unlink Google, which can render a search result page out of hundreds of millions for a given search query in under half a second, [...]