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 …
Over 60 generation loving self checkout! Who knew? Read More »
Technology has finally concentrated on the elderly – Thank God! As a caregiver to both parents for over 20 years – manually checking blood pressure, lungs, heart rate, respiration, and blood sugars was exhausting for my parents and myself. Congestive Heart Failure is a monitoring nightmare for the caregiver. Observing changes in walking and balance …
Technology for the elderly and caregivers. Who Knew? Read More »
So, just landed in Logan, 1am. Need an Uber to my hotel downtown. I was worried…it’s kinda late, right? Not so. And what amazes me is how Logan and the world has totally embraced #Uber (and Lyft). It’s not just “a something”, it is: “it”. Walk thru the airport and terminal exits…1,000’s of signs pointing …
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 …
Risk Management – Leverage Excel for fast, easily revised Risk Analysis Read More »
You’re probably reading this on the weekend. The workweek is over. You get your break. We often look forward to the weekend for a much-needed rest. To get away from our hectic work. It becomes easy to see work as a necessary but undesirable evil. But if we peek under the hood at work, we …
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 …
I grew up a bit in a fear of theft and crime, even though I was in a nice upper-class suburban ‘hood. I think (checking) the world different is today. We *might* have more trust than before. And why? Technology. Like many new-age-work-reformers, our life is the road. Yes, work-from-home (WFH) really means: work “wherever” …
We recently attended the Boston Pops Holiday concert; short: It was AMAZING (and always is!!!). You simply sit there in the beauty of the theatre, the magic of the perfect music, and the wonder of a detailed theatrical experience. And maybe, for a moment, you’re not thinking about technology (maybe). But in a very good …
The TRANSPARENT beauty of technology (and, Boston Pops!) Read More »
#Staples is also another great store where customer-focus and customer-value is just #1. I grew up in the day where the customer was considered evil at most stores; under-helped, under-appreciated, constantly threatened on prices. No more; welcome the “vote of the web, the vote of us”. This week Staples has the #HP #Chromebook for $189, …
#Staples, pod casts, Chromebooks: Great additions to life Read More »
