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Referrals and Reputations

October 15th, 2009

Have you ever wondered why some people are hesitant to refer their family, friends or even colleagues to perform work for someone else?  What does it take to get a job referral or letter of recommendation?  The key to getting a referral is not just having a history with someone, but having a history of success with this person.

How to get referrals: » Read more: Referrals and Reputations

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What games do you play?

October 2nd, 2009

Games help people stay mentally sharp by challenging their skills and abilities.  They also serve as inexpensive entertainment.

Games come in all kinds of forms

  • Board
  • Card
  • Dice
  • Dominoes
  • Stones / Gems
  • Pegs
  • Paper & Pen
  • Role Playing
  • Video
  • Simulations
  • Repetition

Some games are designed to be played solo where your goal is to finish the game.  These games tend to be based on memory, pattern recognition, logic and persistance. If you finish the game then you win.  Other games are designed to be played head to head.  These are usually games of chance or strategy or a combination.  There are usually points involved and depending on the point system the lowest or the highest score wins. The last kind of games are designed to encourage teamwork, social skills and comradery.

Here are a few of my favorite games:

  • Sudoku
  • Chess
  • Othello
  • Pente
  • Chicken Foot
  • Cashflow 101
  • Halo

Reply to this post.  What are your favorite games?

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Teamwork saves the day

July 4th, 2009

Even the go to guy can’t do everything by himself.  Well, he could but it would take a lot longer.  The smarter thing to do, is for him to bring in his team to help work on the problem.

The other day, one of our projectors started acting funny.  It wasn’t responding to the remote control and it wasn’t showing the video.  We have a dual projector setup.  One S-Video signal going out of a computer into an S-Video signal splitter then an S-Video cable connected to each projector.  This setup has been running beautifully for years.

I was able to resolve the remote control issue but we still had the video issue.  We determined that the signal wasn’t getting to the projector for some reason.  To figure out what was going on involved looking around in the crawl space between the exterior roof and the interior ceiling.  I threw on some overalls, grabbed a light source and a walkie talkie.  After several minutes of maneuvering around the duct-work, I was able to inspect the cables.  While I was doing all this work, I was in constant communication with my team via walkie talkie.

We verified that the front projector S-Video cable condition was pretty bad and needed to be replaced.  The cable going to the rear projector had been replaced not too long ago, so it didn’t cause any problems for us.

Fortunately, we were able to devise an alternative solution that would work while we are ordering the replacement cable.  There was still some VGA cable that was still in the attic from a previous projector installation.  We decided to take advantage of this cabling and a few minutes later the video was restored.

While we were wrapping it all up, my team suggested I plug the S-Video cable in just for fun.  It turns out that it was working again.  When I was in the attic moving around the cables, I must have touched the area that was shorted.  We don’t like intermittent behavior in our technical equipment, so we’re still going to get the replacement cable.

If I didn’t have the team to help me, I would have been working all day trying to resolve this issue.  With the help of the team, we got it done in only three hours.

Till next time, don’t forget your team is the key to your success

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