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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
A perspective on personal budgeting as you think about your New Year’s resolutions
Power Trio Breaks Down Complicated Budgets - Business Insider: "According to Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar, authors of On My Own Two Feet, you really only need three basic expenses in your budget: foundation expenses, fun expenses, and future expenses."One thing it...
The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind – NYTimes.com
The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind - NYTimes.com: The new frontier for men's ministry in churches?
Preparing for a new era of knowledge work
Via McKinsey Quarterly: …a broad swath of employment remained largely untouched: work requiring extensive human interactions. Among these positions are the jobs held by knowledge workers—the doctors, engineers, lawyers, managers, sales representatives, teachers, and...
CIOs Struggle With Relevance of Role to Business
Via CIO: “The role of the CIO is going to vanish in the next few years,” says Yuvi Kochar, chief technology officer for the Washington Post Co. “We really need to change because no one is satisfied with IT; the business is frustrated.” “The traditional role of the CIO...
CIOs Struggle With Relevance of Role to Business
Via CIO: “The role of the CIO is going to vanish in the next few years,” says Yuvi Kochar, chief technology officer for the Washington Post Co. “We really need to change because no one is satisfied with IT; the business is frustrated.” “The traditional role of the CIO...
From gum-stick to postage-stamp sizes, the era of small-form-factor embedded computing has arrived
Via Military and Aerospace Electronics: …demand for small-form-factor embedded computing continues to increase, driven by size- and weight-constrained aerospace and defense applications like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), wearable...
From gum-stick to postage-stamp sizes, the era of small-form-factor embedded computing has arrived
Via Military and Aerospace Electronics: …demand for small-form-factor embedded computing continues to increase, driven by size- and weight-constrained aerospace and defense applications like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), wearable...
Cray Titan Supercomputer Now the World’s Fastest; IBM’s Sequoia No. 2
Via e-Week: IBM's Sequoia supercomputer in June became the first U.S.-based system to reach No. 1 on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. Six months later, the system—at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory—was moved to No. 2, displaced by Cray's huge Titan...