When going to a vacation-destination city on business, the best plan is to take a day before or after (works really nice if the work is done during the week...

Personally, I would prefer to pay only for the channels I watch. I see no reason why they can't allow us to pay just for our preferred entertainment.

David.Poole (8/10/2009)

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It depends on the personality of the person you are speaking to.

Some managers view any resistence as dissent to be crushed. A carefully phrased question can start a...

The most common white lie of IT: "I'll get on it right away."

I don't mind having my shopping habits tracked when it means they send me targeted special discounts for the things I shop for regularly .. which my grocery store "club"...

What you are advocating, Steve, is keeping code abstracted and divided into objects. This is the core to good software engineering. When you take delivered source code and modify/enhance it...

Grant Fritchey (7/31/2009)

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I guess my question is, why would you NOT go to one of these events? Fear that maybe the people presenting don't know what they're talking about? So...

mikefolden (7/29/2009)

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At my office in Mpls, the purchasers saw fit to buy "Herman Miller" chairs for everyone, and I have to say that the money has been well spent. ...

rob.nickolaus (7/29/2009)

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At my last company, I used chairs as a recruitment/retention tool. I gave each new employee up to $100 reimbursement to go purchase the chair that they preferred and...

Chris Harshman (7/29/2009)

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blandry (7/29/2009)

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Buy a new chair??? With hundreds of companies going out of business and still more laying off workers, you are going out and buying a new...

Bill Nicolich (7/29/2009)

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Blandry: The spa treatment comment had me...

Hear, hear! This happens too frequently (the correct answer is mostly, but not always, the...

Jason Miller (7/24/2009)

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jpowers (7/24/2009)

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But haven't we learned from recent legal history that it is almost impossible to completely get rid of emails and other supposedly ephemeral transmissions? Somewhere, there will...

Aaron N. Cutshall (7/24/2009)

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JJ B (7/24/2009)

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For interest: My office recently started a group library. People leave books on the shelf for anyone to read for as long as they...

Steve Jones - Editor (7/24/2009)

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If I had that shared library at work, I might use that as well. However, like my local library, the selection isn't great. I'm amazed how...