If you use Gmail as your primary email provider, you had a problem yesterday. Gmail went down for a lot of the day. From the thunder reverberating around the web, Twitter, and elsewhere, one would have thought the digital world had ended. Strangely, I use a Gmail account for my personal mail and never noticed a thing since I was accessing that mail via Blackberry yesterday. Aside from yet another example of how these machines are evil, sentient beings, the outage raises a bigger point in my mind. Continue reading
Category Archives: Reality checks
A Higher Standard
We were watching 60 Minutes Sunday evening and they re-ran a report on the dumping of computers under the guise of recycling. This piece first ran last November and I’m surprised it hasn’t had more repercussions. As the piece went on, getting more disturbing by the minute, I had one of those little epiphanies I have from time to time and which I like to share with you. I realized that this piece is why professional content matters. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
The Blue Grotto
There was a report last week that The Blue Grotto, one of Italy‘s most-visited tourist locations had been fouled by raw sewage. The suspicion was that some local mafiosi had dumped the waste they’d been paid to haul away in the water rather than pay the dumping fees to increase their profits. Fortunately, in the few intervening days, the smell has gone away and the early reports may have been wrong. But the entire incident got me thinking anyway about how many business people do the same sort of dumb things. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks
Consult Keith 