Category: Business

Small Gestures for Remote Employees

Business / People

In 2025, most jobs are all about producing ‘work product’ and just getting things done. What makes it worse is ‘remote’ workers. You can’t have a fridge stocked with sodas or snacks in the kitchenette for everyone. In the 1970s, Publisher’s Clearing House put fresh cut flowers on every employee’s desk – every Monday. Even when they got up to 1,000 employees. That small and relatively inexpensive gesture (per employee) likely made everyone feel like mom or your wife might feel if you brought them flowers on a …

WordPress Doesn’t Want Honest Reviews

Business / Reviews / Software / Technology / Websites

WordPress (Automattic) has blocked and banned me before for writing reviews that weren’t positive about a plugin or theme. (Kinda sounds like fascistbook, right?) And now they’ve done it again when my review was very simple and clear – that a plugin doesn’t mention that it’s VERY limited unless you upgrade to their paid version. Of course I support developers making money on the code they write – but bait and switch should have gone out with greasy car salesman and wide ties. So why does WordPress think …

The Super Bowl and the World Cup Names

Business

I know companies protect their trademarks and copyrights to build and develop their brands to make them more marketable and increase their value to advertisers. But… I don’t understand why the NFL says that people, radio stations, TV stations, etc. CANNOT say “Watch the Super Bowl” – instead, you have to say “Watch ‘The Big Game’.” I recently found out the same is true for FIFA’s “World Cup”. You can’t actually say “World Cup” when referring to their event. Doesn’t it just cause confusion among fans and followers? …

I Know Why Business Want To Go “Passwordless”

Business / Marketing / Technology

It’s painfully obvious why businesses want to go “passwordless” for their websites. And I’m not willing to accept the answer that it’s “less expensive”, or “easier for customers”, or “more efficient”. The real reason is because businesses want (more of) your personal information. There’s an argument to be made for SOME websites to send you txt messages to verify it’s you, but not many. And yes, as a software tester, I understand how easy it is for spammers/scammers to create profiles on websites using fake email accounts, which …

Business, Ideas, and MouseMingle

Business / People / Technology

For many years I’ve said that social platforms are for social networking, while LinkedIn is for business networking. And while I’ve preached that for a very long time, I haven’t always practiced it. I’ve relied on my personal network and phone calls. However wonderful my network is, they are either sick of me, have golden handcuffs, or just aren’t interested in business the way I am. Ben Franklin created the “Junto” when he was a printer (also called the leather apron club,) so that like-minded people could sit …

Google has Eaten Microsoft’s Lunch

Business / Microsoft / Software / Technology

I worked at Microsoft for many years in the mid-1990s and late 2000s. I was a Microsoft fanboy. I got especially good with the Microsoft Office suite, and could do just about anything faster than most anyone I knew. I had all the keyboard shortcuts down, was great with Microsoft Excel formulas, could format anything in Microsoft Word, and was a master with Outlook, Publisher, PowerPoint, and even did a lot with Access. Then, Microsoft completely messed up Office with their “ribbon” toolbars. They drastically changed – or …

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