Category: Education

Surprise, surprise.  I am actually going to defend Lindsay Lohan on my blog.

Lindsay Lohan was arrested in 2007 after getting caught drunk driving twice.  Much more recently, her alcohol detecting bracelet determined that she had been drinking.  The circumstances surrounding this incident are incriminating: she had just attended parties after the MTV Music Awards.

I have had experience with alcohol detecting devices, including ones that use the same technology as Lindsay Lohan’s alcohol detecting bracelet. … read more “Lindsay Lohan Should Not Be Sent to Jail”

Below are my 8 favorite Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts / hotkeys to use:

1. Windows key + M minimizes everything on your desktop so you can see the background.
2. Windows key + Shift + M restores all the windows you just minimized above (but not ones individually minimized beforehand).
3. Windows key + E opens the windows explorer for quick access to files and folders on your computer.

I have been following the strategy of Hire Slow, Fire Fast when it comes to recruiting and have come to realize that there are a number of severe limitations to this strategy. Here are a few:

1. If your company’s customer base is growing rapidly, your team of brilliant people can become overworked and demotivated because of it.

There was an excellent article in NPR today about the Social Security Disability Scam. At $260 BILLION a year it is by far America’s largest scam. Bernie Madoff only managed to achieve $60 billion through his entire lifetime. However, the Social Security Disability scam is considered politically untouchable because 14 million Americans benefit from it and don’t have to work.… read more “Social Security Disability: America’s Largest Scam”

How often have you thought to yourself how great would it be to make a lot of money without a lot of work? To have a passive income stream? To build the next Instagram?

Do you think you’re the only one who wants to do that?

The marketplace of people who want to make a quick buck is huge.… read more “The Foolishness of Chasing the Quick Buck”

Almost everyone agrees that the Italian captain of the Carnival cruise ship was utterly incompetent and caused the deaths of several people when he ran his ship aground.  He is now being charged with manslaughter, abandoning ship and other crimes.  Read more about him abandoning ship here.

The question is: Why was this idiot the captain of a major ship in the first place?… read more “Italian Employment Law Caused Carnival Cruise Ship Debacle”

I am starting to do some very interesting things with Google Apps using the API & some basic Javascript code…. sending emails based on certain events, running master reports that aggregate data from multiple docs and other fun stuff.