GE/Durham makes the pages of Fast Company. GE/Durham has more than 170 employees but just one boss: the plant manager. Everyone in the place reports to her. Which means that on a day-to-day basis, the people who work here have no boss. They essentially run themselves. Link courtesy of Jeremy Zawodny’s blog
Yep, after over a year of updating this site on a regular basis, somehow the last few months have proven remarkably challenging on that front. Just when I thought things were starting to calm down at work, and I was going to have some more time to blog, suddenly things changed. :| Anyway, long story short, I’m now managing our primary Web presence. That proved pretty busy when it was just me and our programmer handling everything. We’ve hired someone to help out, though, and that is working out well. I’m hoping I’ll have a bit more time, as I catch up all the stuff that piled up while I was too busy to think about it. ...
Apparently The Gap, along with subsidiaries such as Old Navy, shut down their online stores for two weeks to launch a much-improved ecommerce solution. Their site is kind of slow right now, and I didn’t use it in the first place, so I can’t really give much of a critique of how the shopping experience improved. …Oops, I guess they’re not selling short-sleeve casual shirts right now: “We’re sorry, but the page you are looking for is no longer available.” ...
I took a short online personality test, and I realize since I started working my current job I’ve changed from an INFP to an INTJ. Seems appropriate, given the recommended jobs, but it also seems odd that a few years of web development would change your opinions about interacting with others and the world around you.
Here at work we’ve been watching bouncebacks flood into an email inbox, apparently triggered by the recent spread of Sober.p. The bouncebacks are coming from virus-laden emails heading out to the world with fake “From” addresses…in this case, that particular email address. Now, given the fact that we use this address primarily as an internal address inside a small, secure, virus-protected network, don’t publish it, and have only used it to communicate with a few relatively computer-savvy people, it bothers me that even the few machines where it is likely to exist outside our network are still vulnerable to this sort of thing. Email viruses have been well publicized for around a decade. Why — given the fact that this one doesn’t even look like a real message from us — are people still clicking on the attachments?!? Shouldn’t we be making the virus writers work harder now? :| ...
Daring Fireball translates a recent Q&A about Adobe acquiring Macromedia: “Once Freehand, Fireworks, and GoLive are killed, customers will have the benefit of not having any competing apps to choose from, and we benefit from not having any competitors.” Link courtesy of ongoing
This is potentially very bad, if Adobe tries to make Macromedia products more Adobe-like. Adobe might “get” the print world, but Macromedia gets the Web, and I haven’t really seen any Adobe products that do as well for what I do. Of course, the other problem becomes readily apparent. If the companies’ competing products were already selling for high prices, what’s going to happen now?
I was just archiving my Outlook personal folders here at work, and I realized I had sent over 4,000 email messages last year…and those were just the ones that I saved. Ouch.
Channel 4 covers the worst jobs in British history. You can take the quiz and see what you might be doing.
I wince when I hear I’m invited to a brainstorming session. I understand why people have them, but I prefer for the ideas that I communicate to be in some sort of thought-out, vetted condition. In other words, I don’t like spouting whatever bizarre idea pops into my head until I think about it. (I save the bizarre ideas for when I’m bored in regular meetings.) :) What we seem to have here is a big brainstorming session on how to save the Internet from growing security and noise risks. At least I think it must have been, because folks came up with ideas such as this one: ...