Zoho MS Office plug-in falls short of my expectations

I started this post rather upbeat, intending to sing praises to Zoho and its nifty Microsoft Office plug-in. Alas, as I was writing this and experimenting with the plug-in at the same time, a couple of things had dampened my excitement.
As of late, I’m pretty much exclusively use Zoho for my personal documents. My [...]

First day of PMP Prep workshop

What fun! 8+ hours of a glorious summer Saturday spent indoors attending the first of 4 sessions of a PMP Prep workshop.  A few eye openers:

It’s been too long since I was forced to sit for so long in one spot.  By the 7th hour I could hardly refrain from getting up and pacing around [...]

The importance of being professional or How to behave on a conference call

Today more and more of my meetings happen via conference calls with meeting participants joining the calls from home, from their cars, from offices around the country and, in some cases, around the world.  The benefits of modern technology and the convenience of being able to bring people together for a meeting without all of [...]

On lack of Lotus Notes integration

When talking to customers, one of the arguments against Lotus Notes that comes up time and time again is the lack of integration options.  There are many examples.  Book a flight on-line or buy tickets to an event and there’s likely to be a link on the page to add this event or this flight [...]

Bad news, good news

We are continuing to bring you the news from the Lotus Notes/Exchange Chicago front. I wish I could say that it was all quiet on the Chicago front. But the battle rages on.
One of PSC clients has just completed migrating all of their email users from Lotus Notes to Exchange. They are [...]

How to read everything you should read

It’s bad enough that I can’t keep track of the books I read.  Everyday I’m faced with massive volumes of information that I should be reading.  What to read first: the book on my nightstand, the several dozen blogs I have in my Google Reader, the pile of magazines on my desk, the online publications [...]

Business life and personal creativity or I used to brilliant

Business is bad for good writing.
Following a chain of blog posts — Seth Godin in his post linked to this post, which linked to this post — I read an old essay by Paul McHenry Roberts.  Reading it, I thought to myself, I used to be able to think, write and otherwise express myself like [...]

How to remember the books you read

I can’t believe that I’m about to say this, but my mother was right.  She was right when she was trying to make me keep a journal of the books that I read.  When I was a kid, after I finished a book, before she would let me start another one, she would make me [...]

Lessons from Mexico or Where NOT to go in Mexico

For quite some time now I’ve been wanting to visit a city in Mexico. Any city. I came to North America in 1990 and in all this time never been south of the US border. I know a lot of people who had vacationed at one of the many resorts in Mexico. [...]

Happy birthday, America!

I’m writing this sitting outside on my patio at 11 o’clock at night on this uncommonly cold July 4th. I’m wearing long pants, a long-sleeved shirt and a sweatshirt — so much for global warming. My clothes were made in Asia, mostly China and Macao. My laptop was made in Malaysia, I bet [...]