Image via Wikipedia This is just a quick rant. Meets are a pain in the butt. I mean, sometimes it’s necessary to meet and talk about a project or get people up to speed on the latest information. We have them each week for the bloggers and our group and I usually held a network meeting each week at my last company but to have meetings to decide what will be accomplished at the next meeting is rediculous.
People who set these types of meetings up — and you know who you’re — stop it! Email and IM are great tools to collaborate while getting work done. A quick, “Who will do the research on the new cat toy?” email will do wonders. It doesn’t take blocking out 30 minutes of someone else’s time to decide on this.
Oh yeah, and when the research comes in, email it out to the group before the meeting. It’s of almost no use if people have to thumb through 30 pages of junk at a meeting table before they can even begin to spea...
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Green technology and the future of energyFrom: gadgetforlife.info
Post Date: 2008-06-25 22:32:39
Fellow biz reporter Sheryl Jean has an article up today on the growing number of “chief green officers” at major companies , including some in the Dallas area.
Dale Hoenshell, global environmental sustainability manager for Plano-based Electronic Data Systems Corp., wasn’t quoted in the story, but I was recently out at the EDS headquarters to talk to Dale and a handful of “futurists” about the future of energy, and it made for a fascinating discussion.
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more Microsoft says Windows 7 out in January 2010From: gadgetforlife.info
Post Date: 2008-06-25 22:32:19
According to NetworkWorld , Microsoft has sent a letter to its big corporate customers stating that the successor to Vista will be released in January of 2010, three years after the launch of Vista:
[Senior vice president Bill] Veghte went further in addressing customer concerns over application compatibility, which had been a problem shortly after Vista’s release.
“You’ve also let us know you don’t want to face the kinds of incompatibility challenges with the next ...
more Architecture Tech: Floors rotate independentlyFrom: gadgetforlife.info
Post Date: 2008-06-25 22:31:59
David Fisher, an Italian architect with a decidedly un-Italian name, has apparently created skyscraper designs that let each floor rotate independently . More surprising, it looks like a couple developers, one in Dubai and one in Moscow, are willing to test them out
Apparently builders put the core up on site and then snap on the prefabricated floors, which come from a factory. In theory, the turning motion will be powered by solar panels and/or windmills in the buildings.
Fisher says ...
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