“Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days” Daniel Pink provides this great descriptive of sluggish afternoons in his provocatively titled LinkedIN article, You’re more likely to screw up in the afternoon. Here’s how to stop afternoon errors. How severe is the problem? “Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics,…
Multitasking is not a skill to add to your resume, but rather a bad habit to put a stop to. –Larry Kim, Warning: Multitasking is Killing Your Brain Even the ancient Romans knew better: “A man who chases two rabbits catches none.” MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller points out that the human brain is designed to…
Instead of killing bacteria, turn it off! Apparently, there is close at hand the ability to reprogram bacteria. This is significant because people tend to develop resistance to antibiotics. The antibiotics are effective at killing the bacteria. But the body tends to resist the antibiotic making it no longer effective. Solution? By reprogramming the DNA…
What is the test of loyalty? My mom saved green stamps. That was a long time ago, so I was just a kid. But I got it. When she made a purchase, she was rewarded with sheets of stamps. She pasted these in a book and when she had sufficient number of books, she turned them…
Properly Marketing your Website Your website should be more than a business card. Business cards have the bare essentials – a statement of your name, address, & phone number. That helpful card is what you (used to) hand to someone who asked, “What do you do?” As you gave your well practiced 1-2 minute explanation,…
“It’s not nice to fool the Internet Searcher!” Right up there with “fake news” as a current-event irritant, are “fake reviews.” No one appreciates being fooled with something fake, especially when decisions are hanging in the balance. So we appreciate the research of BrightLocal in publishing their annual Local Consumer Review Survey-2017. Published since 2010,…
Our World is Smaller through Transport Accessibility In our current existence on earth, it is necessary to have transportation. Whether by air or land or sea, the world is on the move to be a part of the rest of humanity. Eventually, we will all have electric vehicles (EV). This will happen soon as each…
“On July 29, 2017, Equifax discovered that attackers had gained unauthorized access to private data belonging to an estimated 143 million Americans by exploiting a vulnerability in a website application.” Whom to Trust? When the breeches are multiple and continuous, where does one turn for good advice? Alliant’s Reliable Tech News is such a source.…
Technological Rite of Passage The first step into adulthood for me many years ago, was the purchase of my first car. Before that it was starting school – the first step away from home. I can still remember my mom taking me shopping for school clothes at the ripe age of 10! She probably made…
The New and Reproved Ransomware Recently, a new variant of the notorious Locky ransomware – IKARUS delapidated – has become part of a large-scale email-based campaign. The attack is gaining traction because it is able to slip past the defenses of some unsuspecting companies. On August 9, the first campaign of a worldwide ransomware attack…