Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Wireless works We've moved well beyond hype in wireless and into practical use. Greg McMillan of Emerson in his Modeling and Control blog discusses his surprise at how well wireless works in some of his applications. 3:37:40 PM    comment []

End of an era The Evolving Excellence blog has a story about how management can destroy a company by destroying its Lean culture. So sad. 3:35:26 PM    comment []

New blog I added a new blog to my list--it's IT focused, but appears to be quite useful. Mu Line. 3:33:41 PM    comment []

Facts are facts, sort of Sometimes you need to read beyond the headlines--heck, most of the time you need to read past the headline. This Infoworld article notes the facts behind the hyped facts on tech industry layoffs. If you go beyond just adding the hyped numbers of tens of thousands of layoffs and look at the reality, there really haven't been that many (not that the 9,600 people laid off will feel better because of that). Many of the announcements are of the nature of not filling open positions. Read the whole story on these things before quoting numbers. 3:32:31 PM    comment []