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- 10 wording blunders that make you look stupid
- One word I've come to almost hateThe word like. It is SO overused, especially by today's generation. I have mentally put the word in my "do not use" list because I hear it spoken so often and not in the proper context.Anyone else have a word that they...
- Tags: Team management, electronics_md@..., blunder, team
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- What is the worst blunder you have made during your IT career?
- Over the years, we've had a lot of fun in the TechRepublic forums talking about the blunders and silly things that end users do and say. Now, we're turning the tables a bit and asking IT pros to tell about the worst blunder they have ever made in their IT...
- Tags: Information Technology, Career, Blunder, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
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- How do you deal with dumb?
- That is a stupid question.When being paid to provide a product or service, you are the one who might make a "blunder", not the [b]paying[/b] customer. When [b]you're paying me[/b] you may offer your opinion. When [b]I'm paying you[/b] you do your
- Tags: off-topic, professional courtesy mandatory, not optional, Absolutely
- Discussion threads 2007-03-10
- Geek Trivia Calendar blunder
- Did anyone spot the blunder on this months (November's) Geek Trivia Calendar page? The "Bet you didn't know" fact states that the most luminous celestial object ever discovered is The Pistol Star and it resides in our own Galaxy!Any self respecting geek knows the most luminous celestial objects are Quasars...
- Tags: Pistol Star, galaxy, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-11-24
- Management Blunder of the Month: October
- My Favourite Line"(What does it say about National Intelligence if they wanted a communications guy like this?)"The first thing that came to mind when I read that was "it sais to me that they're sticking to age old quality of Intelligence leaders then?" followed quickly by "a leader who's not...
- Tags: Leadership, Neon Samurai, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- 10 things you should do if you make a big mistake
- We may mess up sometimes in our work, and the mistake we make could be a major one. But even a big blunder can be rectified, with damage brought under control and the lessons learned prompting improved processes and safeguards. Calvin Sun offers a list of measures to take when...
- Tags: Mistake, Calvin Sun, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2007-11-16
- Google accidentally sends out e-mail worm
- The 50,000+ subscribers of Googles Video e-mail group should double check their computers. CNETs News.com reported the security blunder Wednesday. On Tuesaday, three postings were made an e-mail list the send alerts to the group. "Some of these posts may have contained a virus called W32/Kapser.A@mm--a mass-mailing worm,"...
- Tags: e-mail, e-mail worm, Google Accidentally, Google Inc., Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Security firm trashes customer e-mails
- You get what you pay for.I work for a small business & always have a non existent IT budget, therefore my boss chose GFI for our Email Security & Spam detection, as it's about 1/3 the price of Trend, Symantec products etc. We were affected by this blunder & I've...
- Tags: e-mail, E-MAILS, gary@..., security
- Discussion threads 2005-03-07
- High Level Best Practices on Software Configuration Management
- When deploying new SCM software configuration management tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor, large-scale practices from their previous jobs or previous tools. The result is a well-executed blunder. This paper promotes some high-level best practices that reflect the authors' experiences in deploying SCM....
- Tags: Software Configuration Management, Configuration Management, Best Practice, SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-04-06
- Recovering from hardware upgrade problems with SQL
- Hardware upgrade problems? No, isn't.The title is a kind of blunder: there is nothing of a hardware upgrade involve in the matter, but software update with service packs.Niether it is a software upgrade problem, but a software update problem.Nevertheless, the article is good information.Thank you for it.What about sql2005Hi, I've...
- Tags: hardware, hardware upgrade, sql, software update, jtabio, software, SSIS Packages, SSIS
- Discussion threads 2006-02-25
- Your career and the Imposter Syndrome
- In an article on BNET recently, Sean Silverthorne discussed a Harvard Business blog post by Gill Corkindale about a phenomenon she calls Imposter Syndrome. Briefly, this is something seen in managers on fast-track careers who have been promoted to roles that challenge their abilities. At some point, they feel like...
- Tags: Corkindale, Professional Development, Career, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- When the phone is smarter than the person
- This News.com story reveals the results of the annual Mobile Usage Survey from security software firm Pointsec: "Vital data often stored on unsecured devices." As you can tell from the title, quite a few people are careless with the private information that they enter in their smart phones and mobile computers. In fact, "Three out...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2005-11-15
- Me, myself & I
- Does anyone else have a problem with the erroneous use of the word "myself". I can't even begin to say how often I receive emails or sit in on meetings where the writer or speaker writes/says:"If you have any questions, please feel free to call myself".or"Myself and the VP...
- Tags: cathy.e.arbogash@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-15
- Management Blunder of the Month: October
- Anyone can make a mistake, right? Misunderstanding a situation, shooting ourselves in the foot, failing to take action as or when required - these things happen occasionally. It comes with the territory when you're in a management role. And, as long as our good decisions...
- Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John McKee
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Why some co-workers will never admit to mistakes
- I encountered two words the other day that I'd never heard before: unaccountability and sorrylessness. They appeared in an article in the Wall Street Journal, which was about people in the workplace who won't admit to making a mistake. They are my new favorite words. Admitting to...
- Tags: Mistake, Mindset, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Help desk rants: What do you need to get off your chest?
- My neighbor at the office and I have something we call Saucy Fridays. Whenever it's coming to the close of the week, and one of us feels like we're down to our last nerve, we'll warn the other by declaring "I'm having a Saucy Friday." It's a...
- Tags: Help Desk, Call Centers, E-mail, It Operations, Online Communications, William Jones
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- ignore this
- just for oneamazingwriter's education ]:)I knew it! :DI finally learned how to go down the list of My Contacts discussions and I saw ignore this and thought, "OK, Jaqui, I am NOT going to bite!" But....You must have read my blog The Blunders of Beth.You just KNEW I'd bite, didn't...
- Tags: new friend, D, humour, Jaqui, off-topic, typo, blog
- Discussion threads 2006-04-07
- Starbucks and Intermountain Healthcare "lose" sensitive employee data
- Last week was a bad one for personal privacy. Starbucks and Intermountain Healthcare announced shameful lapses of basic data security. According to a November 3, 2006 Starbucks’ press release, “four retired no longer in regular use laptops have been identified as missing from the Starbucks Corporate...
- Tags: Intermountain Healthcare, laptop computer, Starbucks Corp., Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- PC Bug Doctor NOT FREE!
- The May 5, 2005 newsletter had a link to PC Bug Doctor and implied as did the link site that it was FREE!What a mis-statement.Downloaded, run, found close to 5,000 collective errors and when I selected FIX, it came up with an "Unlock Key" request.Selecting "Get the Key" and I...
- Tags: newsletter, PC, FREE, PC Bug Doctor, FREE!, fadbel, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2005-05-07
- Ubuntu reaches out to Novell: backlash ensues
- With the recent blunder *er* partnership of Novell and Microsoft the Linux community quickly flew up in arms about what was to happen. Many conspiracy theories were tossed up into the wind and few of them fell back down to earth.But one thing did come to light in this tiny...
- Tags: Distribution Upgrade, Fedora, Gpl, Linux, Netware, Novell Inc., Open Source, proprietary software, software, Suse, Ubuntu, Uncategorized, Windows
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
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