Daily Entries

I’ll be speaking as part of a Digital Marketing Series offered by the Regional Technology Corporation in Springfield, Massachusetts next month. Cohosting with me will be Bill Bither of Atalasoft. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the event is already sold out! Next time, we need a bigger venue.

Fellow blogger Rob Walling posed an interesting question in his post titled “The Next Frontier in Offshoring“, and asked me what I thought of the idea of “Offshoring” business to rural Mississippi. I’m going to call it outsourcing, since it’s not really offshoring if you don’t go offshore. For the record, I don’t think Hawaii…

CNN.com recently published an article called “101 Dumbest Moments in Business“. I’d like to draw particular attention to #77: Bank of America, which laid off 100 tech support jobs in the San Francisco area and told their employees that in order to receive their severance pay, they needed to train their replacements. That’s funny in…

This week was a pretty good week. It was a bit hectic, some good things happened, some bad things happened, but overall it was a good week. I’ve got my first non-work related speaking engagement tentatively scheduled. I have a new employee starting on Monday. I have a consultant coming in for a week on…

Curse of the Expanding Lab My lab here at Moon River Software has started getting large enough that I needed to invest in some KVM switches. A small 4 port KVM wasn’t going to cut it, so I needed at least 8, possibly more. In addition, I needed to interface with both USB and PS2…

I know I’ve been a little bit quiet lately, but there’s a flurry of activity going on in the background here. I have a new employee starting in about 2 weeks, and I’m gearing up to wreak havoc on the business world this coming year. It’s going to take a lot of planning and solid…

I spoke with my CPA the other day and he informed me of roughly how much I would owe at the end of March when my business taxes are due. I almost had a coronary. The first few years of my professional career, I made less than I’m going to be paying in taxes. If…

So my ‘friend’ the recruiter called back again today. He had another sales guy call a few days ago and I told him that I wasn’t interested and didn’t expect to hear from him again. Lo and behold, this morning he called me again. I told him that he had wasted plenty of my time…

It’s pretty sad how incredibly pushy recruiters are these days. Not that I can really speak to how they were several years ago. Since posting the listing for a job opening here at Moon River Software about three weeks ago, I’ve gotten a number of calls from various recruiters. It has picked up in the…

Obviously, this all happened last week, but I thought I’d relate it anyway. My third day in Paris was non-stop all day. I got up early, went to the Arch de la Defense and worked most of the day. Went to the client in the afternoon, and then went to dinner and on a driving…