Archive for August, 2012

Tweets From Mars

Monday, August 6th, 2012

You probably know that Mars rover Curiosity landed on the Red Planet this morning, but did you know that Curiosity has its own Twitter feed? (652,120 followers and counting.) Gotta love the way NASA is playing with this.

Cloud Computing Sucks

Sunday, August 5th, 2012

Woz agrees, calling it horrendous. Of course, it’s not like the risks haven’t been pointed out loud and clear. Stay tuned for the backlash when some cloud provider inevitably goes belly up or suffers a comprehensive hacker attack or data loss.

This Is Now

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

This is interesting: real-time views of five cities worldwide. C|Net reports.

Quote o’ the Day

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

“You throw your best punch, otherwise don’t do it.”
Don Rickles

Falling Up

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

We all know people who seem to have made a career out of falling up. “What? You mean the promotion went to him?!” That person who was so lousy in that job lands a new job with greater responsibility and double the salary. It can be infuriating. Some people in the business world seem to have the proverbial Midas touch.

Or maybe not. Check out the Harvard Business Review’s article detailing the reasons why winners keep on winning.