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Engineering is boring?

I was reading the following article in Engineering Times: Engineering is not boring

The author of this article, Dylan McGrath, mentions a speech given by John Cohn, and IBM Fellow, on what we can do to get more people interested in the profession. Mr. McGrath also indicates that the secondary topic in the speech was [...]

President Obama, pay caps, and responsibility

In the news this week we read of the plan of President Obama to force pay caps on CEOs of companies. While the libertarian in me does not like to see government intervention in the market, this situation is probably for the better. One of the problems I see in our country is that because [...]

One year review of AT&T U-Verse

I decided I would write a review of AT&T; U-verse service after having it for a year. We still have the same service that we signed up for last January. We have the U200 package, and have the 6mbps download speed.

I’m still very happy with the service. The picture on my standard definition [...]

Recession planning / strategy

I’ve been thinking and working on a strategy. I’ve done fairly well with business over the last few years, but still took losses most years, due to putting money back in my business. I’m thinking that at this point in time, it would be very prudent to cut spending in areas that aren’t essential.

The [...]

Forecast for 2009

2008 was a difficult year for my company. A single project consumed all my time, and I left marketing and sales by the wayside. Sales were very minimal.

Towards the end of 2008, I committed more capital to position myself to better serve clients, and handle larger projects. The company website and client websites are [...]

All-Battery.com 9 month review

At first I bought a large quantity of batteries from All-Battery.com, and was happy. After several months, I’m no longer satisfied. I bought the 2600mAh cells, in various sizes from AAA-D, and initially, they seemed to work ok. Some of them still do. However, most of the batteries now do not hold much of a [...]

Card Services Phone Call

I normally don’t write these kinds of posts, but I just got a phone call that could have really done some harm. I received a phone call from “Card Services”, saying that they could lower the interest rate on all my credit cards down to 6.9%. I pressed the button to speak with a representative, [...]

Opensource CRM tools

I’ve found a customer relations managment software package that I’m trying out for my business. SugarCRM is available both as a paid software package, and an open source “Community Edition”. Loading the community edition on my server was no more difficult than installing any other MySQL-based blog or portal software.

I like having it on [...]

Thanksgiving Thoughts

This has been an incredibly hard year for our family. We have had many things that have happened, that have caused us much stress and financial difficulty. My roof needed to be replaced, both cars broke down, and all kinds of medical problems and expenses. We have also had many blessings along the way. Our [...]

Using social networking for advertising

Recently, I created a facebook page for my company. I’m hoping that it gives me some exposure where I would otherwise not be seen or considered. If you have a company, maybe it is worth creating a page. I wonder how many people will be shopping for high-tech services on a “fun” site, but then [...]

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