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The Best SPAM Blocker is…
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!SPAM comes in many forms. Of course, I’m not talking about the kind you buy in the store. This is the kind of SPAM that even Hawaiians don’t want to have. I’m talking about good ol’ fashioned unsolicited emails. [...]
Who Killed the Electric Bus?
Today marks the 126th anniversary of the very first trolley bus in the world. In a suburb of Berlin, Dr. Ernst Werner von Siemens presented what has now become one of the most efficient methods of mass inner city transit. Cities like San Francisco are known for their incredible trolley systems that enable daily citizens [...]
Stop The Innovation Trend: Buy a Dell or Thinkpad Running Microsoft Windows
I am sitting here, rebooting my new Thinkpad T61, running Windows Vista Pro (hating both the chunky beast that is my laptop and this horrific version windows running it) and while I wait for the 5 minute start cycle, I have time to read and write a short entry on WordsCause.
Today, I read that two major OEMs [...]
Never Forget Your Password Again!
What is a password manager? This Saturday, Dean and I are going to sit down with the co-founder of Internet darling PassPack: Tara Kelly.
Learn how Tara took an art school education and turned it into a vision to survivie the brutal startup landscape. Handling all the social aspects of the business, from sales to marketing [...]
The Myth of the Electric Car
Earth Day has passed. I spent a fair amount of time making sure that people knew it was Earth Day. Honoring the planet on which all of our lives are dependent is a good practice to get into, in my opinion. So, I chose to finally sit down a do a little research on the [...]
The Women of Words Cause
I know, the pervs were probably expecting some pictures of scantily clad women. For that, you should go here. For the rest of you, Dean and I had four incredibly amazing women on the Dean and Jared Words Cause radio show yesterday. Here is a little bit more information about Laura, Lori, Marianne, and Rebekah:
Laura [...]
Successful Micromanagement in Information Technology Part 3: Remove Ineffective Players
Successful Micromanagement Series Continued
Since the last post in the Successful Micromanagement Series, I’ve been struggling with how to convey the third part of successful micromanagement without sounding like a Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap. After all, how can you tell someone that potentially firing/laying-off people is an essential part of any success without sounding like a callus [...]
What is Fanbox? SPAM
I’ve been encountering a large number of emails sent to my Yahoo! email account from a company called Fanbox. They have a very slick looking web 2.0 interface that claims to be the next evolution in social networking. They are perhaps the most advanced SPAM and Phishing organization I’ve seen to date.
Their developers have clearly [...]
Successful Micromanagement in Information Technology Part 2: Motivate
Successful Micromanagement in Information Technology Series
Micromanagement requires a specific type of motivation. The existing team is likely going to experience some concerns about their work and their jobs, even if you have made sure to create an immediate success as outlined in the first step to successful micromanagement.
The immediate success provides a sense of instant [...]
Successful Micromanagement in Information Technology Part 1: Create Immediate Success
Micromanagement is a common problem in many departments of a business. It is particularly rampant in the Information Technology industry. Whether it was developing the largest real estate database in America or a criminal records system for law enforcement in one of the largest counties in America, I’ve seen some common issues inside IT that [...]
WTF! No way is it alright for one dude to wizz between another two dudes! That's in the Man Law ...
What I have observed is that gas stations seem to watch one another to see how high they can price ...
Gas/service stations are independently franchised and prices are not set by the corporations that own them, but by the franchisee. ...
Chevron is setting a bar for other stations to charge more. Chevron is choosing to do this. I understand ...
Chevron price gouging? No way :-P
The crack down should be on our education system, not Chevron. 
Yeah, I agree with the other post. This so-called university obviously is not a institution of Higher Education.
Is gouging ...
Mindblowing, but sadly very common, and in more contexts than just restaurants. A lot of it, IMO, is simple ...
