​October 2014

It’s Halloween! What are you afraid of? Global warming? Your mom? Getting toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe? What about losing crucial company documents? Even on Halloween, there’s not much scarier than not being able to find something important when you need it. Information is worthless if you can’t get to it.… Read More»

Maybe your office building is more like a maze with walls made of filing cabinets. Maybe you can’t remember what color your desk actually is after it’s been covered in documents for so long. Or maybe you’ve got a warehouse haunted with the memories of files that have been lost for years, with enough spider… Read More»

Windows 95 was great in its time. There was Paint and Internet Explorer and 32-bit applications – it was a magical world! Today, if we found someone playing Doom on Windows 95 with a monitor the size of a microwave oven, we might suspect some strange sci-fi plot involving a time vortex or a DeLorean.… Read More»

Fifteen years ago, if asked what a cloud was, one might answer “tiny droplets of water that form around dust particles in the air” or “the white things in the sky”, depending on how well they did in 5th grade science. Just five years ago, their answer might be “You mean the ones in the… Read More»

What do the following sentences have in common? “I wish I had been put on hold a little longer.” “It’s too bad I got paid for my services on time.” If you guessed “They’re both things that have never, ever been said in the history of humanity,” you would (probably) be correct. Waiting is no… Read More»

There’s some pretty cool stuff floating around out there in that giant space vacuum in which Earth currently resides (as it always has). For example, one planet named upsilon Andromedae B has one side that always faces the sun, resulting in massive temperature differences. The sunny side is around 2700 degrees Fahrenheit, and the other… Read More»

Did you know that employees spend an estimated 30% of their time at work just looking for things? Assuming you work an 8 hour day, that’s 2 hours and 24 minutes that you’re losing to searching for information, every day. That’s over 11 hours a week. You can do a lot with that much time… Read More»

I have a confession to make: I have a terrible habit of making to-do lists and then forgetting about them, resulting in multiple to-do lists full of the same things that never get done. I should probably start renaming my to-do lists to “Things I Should Do but Will Instead Just Repeatedly List Out.” How… Read More»

Everything is suddenly pumpkin-flavored. Halloween decorations are prematurely appearing in stores. Your whole office is sneezing, a large bottle of hand sanitizer has taken up residence on your desk, and you can’t remember whether or not you actually like butternut squash. Yep, it’s fall. Fall is a time for preparations. Prepare for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and… Read More»