Tech Ramblings
Back when this humble blog first started I was a technology executive. Some of my early blogging was mostly about technology until my love of poker took the blog in another direction. So enjoy my Tech Ramblings.
Dive into the Tech Ramblings archives.
- Glad to be back
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Some of you may have been wondering where IÂ’ve been the last several weeks. Well, I spent the better part of the last couple of months preparing to sit for the Project Management InstituteÂ’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) [...]
- Credit Card Fraud in Alaska
Ever since I wrote a short white paper on how merchants can protect themselves from online credit card fraud I’ve been getting 2 or 3 emails a week from people who have been ripped off and want to find out what their options are. Unfortunatey, in most cases, there’s absolutely nothing they can do. [...]
- Project Management Roundup
Here’s a collection of interesting project management links I’ve run by in the last few days:
Developing the Master Skill of the Leader - Ten tips to become a more effective listner.
Building Personal Trust - A must for any project manager.
Fingerprints of Unhappy Companies All Look the Same - Not an especially in-depth piece but one [...]
- Outsourcing Roundup
Here’s some random stories taking various points of view on the outsourcing trend:
TechDirt: Actual Numbers On Who Benefits From Offshoring - Mostly a summary of a McKinsey report which says many of the same things I already covered in my post about the Business 2.0 article on outsourcing. An interesting number cited by McKinsey [...]
- TextAds
After giving it a great deal of thought, I’ve decided not to release a new version of TextAds. As I was working on the current version I found myself increasingly copying features from existing solutions which guided me toward the conclusion that perhaps the market for text based advertising was currently being served. [...]
- Looking for some volunteers
So it took me a little longer to get the code where I felt comfortable with it but it’s getting there. It wasn’t a technology issue as much as it was trying to find some time to get in there and dig around. Anyway, I’m looking for a couple of PHP programmers [...]
- No Way To Run Things
Jay Solo posts an excellent post-mortem (lessons learned) report on a job he was stiffed on. Unfortunately, in the services business getting stiffed is a very real part of life. For some reason, just as in Jay’s case, it also seems to happen when people you know (i.e. friends) are involved.
- Michael Dell: Introvert
One of the difficult things for co-workers to deal with is that most technology people are introverts. One only has to look at where the biggest love/hate relationships exist within a company to confirm that. Marketing/sales and tech are notoriously unable to connect. Marketing/sales is usually filled with over-the-top extroverts who can’t [...]
- Leaders or Rock Stars?
Business Pundit has an excellent write up on the leadership lessons of the quest to scale Mt. Everest. Interestingly many of the lessons are the same as those cited by Jim Collins in his book Good To Great. One of the key points that stuck out for me was the difference between actual [...]
- Jupiter Personalization Story Only Gets It Part Right
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Ok, so I’m trying (probably unsuccessfully) to be funny. Jupiter’s report on web personalization seems like the typical hack job done by someone who only partially understands what they’re talking about. The study says that most companies would enjoy a [...]
