Category Archives: Business

On the Radar: Up Late Waiting for iDVD to Encode

* ??Alissa Clark??: “Weekends and Things”:http://www.alissaclark.com/?p=261. And this, my dears, is why God made coffee for his beloved. It’s a common grace thing, like the rain.
* “Ask a Ninja”:http://askaninja.com/. Don’t ask me why, but I think this is hilarious (”iTunes podcast”:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=115933673&s=143441).
* “ScrewTape on the Da Vinci Code”:http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2006/04/screwtape-on-dvc.html. If anyone’s going to revive ScrewTape, [...]

How Not to Suck at Your Job

??Ken Walker??: “Getting the Basics Right”:http://relevantmagazine.com/life_article.php?id=7104. Hey, that’s me.
“Alissa”:http://www.alissaclark.com needed an article for the Career and Finance department of ??Relevant Magazine??, so I thought I’d divulge all the secrets of my success in 1,000 of my favorite words. Speaking of not sucking, do you know _how_ to condense everything you’ve ever [...]

Do Business Right, Keep Your Soul

??Fast Company??: “The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart”:http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/open_snapper.html?partner=rss. Snapper chooses to continue doing business with excellence, but not by selling out their brand and everything they stand for to Wal-Mart.
Indeed, the productivity of every factory worker is measured “every hour, every day, every month, every year,” says Snapper president Shane Sumners, who walks [...]

Justifying My Existence

It’s that time of year again. The holidays? Well, yeah, that too, I guess. I’m talking about Year-End Reviews. You know: those few weeks where you get to explain to your boss about what a wonderful job you did and how he can’t live without you. I usually take ‘em [...]

Document Surgery

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Things with the job have been okay lately — sometimes really good — and people are telling you how happy they are that you’re there. Admittedly, though, this is one of those low moments of the job that you don’t want the people you meet at Christmas parties to know you do. You’ve [...]