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| Thursday Market Meltdown: AKAM, GT, BID, AAPL & GM |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Aapl, Apple, Bid, General Motos, Generalmotos, Goodyear, Inthenews, Market, Odp, Office Depot, Office Max, Officedepot, Officemax, Omx, Sotheby S |
| (AAPL), General Motors (GM), Office Depot (ODP), OfficeMax Inc (OMX), Sotheby's (BID), Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT)While the market plummeted 311 points today on loan worries; it is easy for people to forget the market is still up. Last week when the Dow broke 14,000; it was up 12.3% for the year. Now the market is up 8.1%. But are we really in |
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| Box Office: The Simpsons Aims For $55 Million Weekend |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:39 pm |
| Tags: Box Office, The Simpsons Movie |
| The Simpsons Movie debuts today in just under 4,000 locations, and, to me, the question is Will this be a $10 experience? After 19 years and 400 episodes, how many jokes remain untold? We're about to find out. After averaging 13.4 million viewers per episode back in season 1, the TV series on Fox declined to an average of 9.2 million |
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| Styles that Stick: Pencil skirts |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 8:02 am |
| Tags: Dresses, Office, Pencil Skirt, Pencilskirt, Retro, Skirts, Styles That Stick, Stylesthatstick, Victoria S Secret, Victoria Ssecret |
| Filed under: Dresses and Skirts, Styles that StickDespite being notoriously tough to walk in, the pencil skirt has been a wardrobe staple to many ladies since the 1950s. The skirt instantly creates a classically shapely silhouette, but, unfortunately, it seems to only flatter people who already have a small waist, curvy hips, and long legs, and it |
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| Box Office: Simpsons on Track for $72.5M |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 2:20 pm |
| Tags: Box Office |
| weekend in modern box office history and the all-time 3rd-best opening weekend for an animated film, trailing only Shrek the Third ($121.6M) and Shrek 2 ($108M). Not only does this monstrous start guarantee a movie sequel, but it will almost certainly reinvigorate the television series on Fox, which finished the 2006-2007 season as only |
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| Home Office: Work at home isolation - good or bad? |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Home Office, Human Fellowship |
| Web Worker Daily brought up an interesting question near and dear to my work from home heart in a recent article: is the isolation experienced working from home helpful or harmful? It's a bit of a paradox. Working from home can be isolating, that's for sure. Sometimes this isolation is a good thing, i.e., when you're working under a deadline or |
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| How the Copyright Office Hurts Bloggers |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 1:51 pm |
| Tags: Punditry, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Cmi, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyright Office, Law, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Registration, Riaa, Usco |
| be an issue if the copyright office and copyright law would recognize online distribution of a work as publication. Since you have three months after the date of publication to register a work without missing out on any damages, it would, theoretically, be possible for a blogger to re-register their site every three months. However, the copyright |
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| Microsoft fights back against Google |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 6:19 am |
| Tags: Goog, Google, Google Apps, Googleapps, Microsoft, Microsoft Office Online, Microsoftofficeonline, Msft |
| offering full versions of Office online, but this is three or more years away according to the article.It's very unclear if this move will have a significant impact on Microsoft or Google's financials, but one thing is clear: consumers stands to win from the heavy competition, as they would in any sector. In this case, Microsoft is |
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| Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta) |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 10:15 am |
| Tags: Beta, Microsoft, Office 2004, Office 2007, Office2004, Office2007, Open Xml, Openxml, Xml |
| also a new beta Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta). What the heck is this? It converts Office files that use Microsoft's new Open XML file format (i.e. files created in Office 2007 for Windows) into a file format that Office 2004 for the Mac can read. This release promises improved conversion of files containing |
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| Microsoft Gets In The Online Apps Games |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:14 pm |
| Tags: News, Excel, Google, Microsoft, New York Times, Office, Online Applications |
| features to Excel and Office that resemble those offered by Google. Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer spoke to the New York Times about the plans and said, We're moving toward a world of software plus services. Ballmer expressed his doubts about Google's confidence that most applications will eventually be housed online. He adds that |
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| Pilgrim's Picks for July 27 |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:29 am |
| Tags: General, Bbc, Eric Schmidt, Interbrand, Iplayer, Microsoft Office |
| Congratulations! You made it to the end of another week. Sit back, relax and enjoy these great marketing news items: Google’s brand has increased in value by 44% over the past 12 months - earning them the #20 spot, according to Interbrand. (via SEL) Microsoft has plans to provide their popular desktop applications as internet services. |
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| DIY: De-clutter your cables with sleeves |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Clutter, Diy, Household, How To, Office |
| Collaborative how-to web site wikiHow describes how to clean up your cable clutter using cable sleeving. The guide focuses on sleeving the cables inside your computer (handy if you're building your own computer), but the steps could also be applied to cable clutter outside your PC box—like behind your home theater. Sleeving is an attractive |
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| Pop Sociology: The Sexy Reading Habits Of The Petit-Bourgeois |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Doree Goes Into The Office, Pop Sociology, Romance Novels |
| This morning on the R train, a woman got off at the City Hall stop. She was middle-aged and heavyset, wearing a light green polyester shirt tucked into snug pinstriped pants. We imagined her sitting... |
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| 90210Insider |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 10:30 pm |
| Tags: The Stories, 90210insider, Ancient Salem, Better Sense, Blogger, Blogosphere, Blowjob, Breaking Any Public Decency Laws, Fit To Print, Fortune 500, Gossip, Hosuewives, More Money From Advertising, Naked, Office Building, Pcitures, Sara, Senator, Slutty Sara, Supermodel, Teen |
| overpriced closet in an office building that housed all the names that were fit to print in the lower half of the Fortune 500 list. It was leased by a blogger with a taste for celebrity gossip and a talent for making the most innocuous comment read like an agreement to collect firewood by a woman's peers in ancient Salem. More average people |
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| Work: 7 ways to cope with job burnout |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 11:30 am |
| Tags: How To, Office, Office Culture, Work, Workspace |
| Weblog Web Worker Daily knows the pain of on-the-job burnout and offers 7 suggestions for coping. For example: Find a new project. Especially if you work in a team of substantial size, there's usually room for individual workers to move around to different tasks or projects. If you ask for changes too regularly and never finish any projects, this |
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| South Korea Replaces Intoxicated Drivers with "Replacement Drivers" |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 12:38 am |
| Tags: Entertainment, Inventions, Life Lifestyle, News, Travel, Work Office |
| South Korea is often at the forefront of inventions and new ways of living, and now they are proving this fact yet again by inventing a new career. read more |
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