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...
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...
DO NOT USE Verizon Business! The current year is 2015. Websites and technology has been an integral part of business for at LEAST 20 years now. Yet this year, in setting up a Verizon Business SIP / VOIP line has been one of the most challenging, frustrating, and annoying processes I have dealt with in...
Capital One Bank says they have “delivered” four “bill pay” checks, but the people have never received the checks. When asked how they know the checks were delivered, they told me they had delivery tracking on the checks. However, they cannot, or refuse to give me the tracking numbers – which means, they are lying....
I was scrolling through someone’s social media timeline and noticed they had a lot of selfies. The idea popped into my head that this is where actual AI (not NLP / Natural Language Processing, that people are CALLING AI) could be used – even if just for fun. Remember the videos of people who have...
I grew up in Southern California, and spent a lot of time at Disneyland as a kid. After spending many years in software development at places like Microsoft and Sony, I started my own technical consulting business, which gave me the flexibility to work at Disneyland for fun as an adult. During my time at...