Office Toil
PC to Mac and Back
When I started with my company in the summer of 2006 I was issued a PC. This PC had belonged to someone else previously so I don’t know how old it really was. We got along just fine for a long time – it was reliable and dependable and I really didn’t give it much thought. Then, after I returned from maternity leave last February, it started its slow and painful decline.
Wolfram Alpha - Will it change our lives?
There is a lot of discussion in the search community (and likely academic though I don’t run with that set) about the impending release of Wolfram Alpha. For those of you (us) who thought that adoption of online search killed the wall set of Encyclopedia Brittanica you’ve had since 1978 - this will likely take the corpse out and blow it up in a field.
What to take to Europe from the US?
In the interest of minimizing some of the pain and suffering that is bound for my husband and kids while I, the only one of us who speaks French, am at work and they are navigating a new foreign city - I asked around about what we should bring from the states. What items can [...]
Email invite + no site = bad plan
Aside from the double standard applied to my big agency verses the specialty agencies… how in 2009 could this happen? We are not talking about semi-pros. Everyone involved is in the big leagues. You don’t have to be a web expert to know that you don’t invite people to a store that isn’t open yet.
In memoriam
One of the first people I worked for in marketing was a woman named Tracey Woodcock. I was young, smart and full of myself. We worked for a small, very good graphic design studio called Frankfurt Gips Balkind and Tracey made me, and my equally smart and full of themselves workmates, insane.
Why offices are like airports. Or, how to maybe have meetings start on time.
In my world, 9:30am meetings start at 9:45am. So, like airports, by the time afternoon meetings come around they are all at least 15mins behind and in some cases cancelled all together.
