Following from my previous entry, BusinessWeek now reports that Microsoft is undergoing a restructure. In a memo to Microsoft staff, management announced that the previous seven divisions will be restructured to three: Platform Products and Services, Business, and Entertainment and Devices. The coincidence is amazing.
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… which contained my assignment (due next Tuesday) and all my church stuff. Sad. Thankfully, the following happened: I conveniently kept a backup of my assignment on my work computer—-meaning that I only lost two paragraphs; It was a software failure (i.e. Windows not writing the FAT properly) rather than a hardware failure, so it’s […]
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The other day, in my workplace Bible Study group, a Christian actuary made this very insightful comment. The comment was spurred from a reflection of the “scoffers” behaviour in 2 Peter 3:3-6. One of the tempations for intellectual people is cynicism. When faced with a series of facts, one can deal with it cynically, or […]
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From Forbes, an article on Microsoft’s Midlife Crisis. Alternatively, an article on how not to structure your business. Structuring your business along major product lines is not a bad thing in itself, I’ve seen successful ones from my business. But you have to do it in such a way that the divisions complement each other, […]
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As an occasional dabbler in web design, one needs the necessary tools to do it quickly and do it well. I develop in Mozilla Firefox, since it’s generally standards-compliant, and generally less annoying than Internet Explorer. This blog entry and accompanying slide show, showing all the web developer extensions that are available, again reaffirms that […]
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Via Couldn’t Help Noticing, this is an interesting insight into 1 Corinthians 4 and what that tells us about Paul. A quote: By contrast, the apostle Paul’s self-esteem was so high that he didn’t care what anyone thought of him. … he didn’t even care what he thought of him. As long as God had […]
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