How many of you have suffered – literally suffered – from standing in long checkout lines at Shaw’s or other supermarkets. Your children are cranky, your back hurts, your patience is at its breaking point – yet you wait and wait and wait. Your stress level is causing your face to redden and develop a …
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Both have a positive association on cognitive abilities such as executive function, short term memory, reasoning, global cognitive function, processing speed and recall. In older adults these skills can stimulate several cognitive abilities, brain plasticity and possibly reduce MCI (mild cognitive impairment). Knitting can lower heart rate and blood pressure and reduce harmful blood levels …
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Product release to the customer often requires a FMECA (Failure Modes Effects and Criticality) along with the Reliability Prediction to complete the delivery package; in addition, revisions are common along with the pressure to update the Risk Analysis package quickly and accurately. Excel provides data import, lookup, merge and formatting to automate this process and …
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Just in time for the holiday season – Texting manners from Emily Post. Growing up we were taught manners in how to greet people, introduce people – remember: Steve this is Pat; Pat this is Steve – dining manners – napkins on your lap, and where to place your napkin if you were leaving or …
More and more experts are telling us that interruptions and distractions have eroded our ability to concentrate. Can you imagine a world without smartphones and other devices that make us accessible and distracted and interrupted every second of the day. This fragmentation of our time and lack of concentration has become the new normal. When …
I always thought I was Staples worst nightmare. “Oh no, the non-techie is here again – RUN.” “The “sticky-thing” person is here again – HIDE.” I am one of the millions of people who think they can explain in detail what they need for their computer, Apple 6 Iphone, and printer and I really …
We are living in very interesting times of a new approach to work. More of us than ever own and control our own ability to work and make income. Uber, We Work, telecommuting, AirBnB, technology, and a very strong desire to be in control of our daily lives is painting the new landscape. I meet …
I spent (sadly) too much of my life at #mcdonalds or #starbucks, and THEY understand US…isn’t that comment (alone) on life? McDees has now decorative lighting, human-alive plants on stools, and, well, value. Bucks same but different. All: Free WiFi, so that you, I, can work, socialize. If I (or you?) go to a “coffee …
We took a weekend trip to the Berkshires. Of course with computer(s) and phones, but as-said: to get “away”. Lenox Mass, amazing theatre (#Tanglewood being so close). It’s a different life out here. Values are different, but technology is still present. So we saw this amazing play, “Pipeline” at the Shakespeare theatre. Front-row of a …
Community theater: And arts? What does that mean to us, technologists? Read More »
We all know, as we develop life-changing solutions for the world: “Mobile First” rules. Partly (if nothing else) is because: Responsive. Meaning, any-size screen, any rotation, and the “solution” needs to be very usable. Ok, got it, same page. Mobile is a bit different. Some apps are really mobile oriented, some are “game” (and def …
