Frank Uncovers Excellence in Leadership

© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2008

Found this article on BB Technology:

Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.

Interesting idea!

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Early in the afternoon my wife told me that we had to go to the hospital. Contracting too much.

I actually don’t dislike it too much. First it’s a one and a half hour drive to get to the hospital and secondly it gives always some time to talk.

If you wonder why a hospital so far—that’s where the doc works who delivered the two other ones. Both he and wife are now out of the military and my wife found him via a web search.

Anyway, her doc was not there, but another doc. Boy, was she out of it: “We can’t find the heart beat because the baby is too small”. Mind you my wife is 22 weeks far.
Talk about creating a disaster: You have a contracting female and you tell her the baby is too small? You can’t find the heartbeat but do not even ask where the baby lays? You tell the patient with a long history of difficult pregnancies that there is no such thing as an incompetence cervix? (Only 12,200 search results from Google). She actually said that the other doctors had no idea what they were talking about.

Don’t worry; neither my wife nor I took her serious. The contractions went down and the baby is doing fine. And I have another day to admire the strength of my wife! Any pregnant female for that matter.

So anyway, I think that over the past few years too many people have become too addicted to machines and what machines can do. Humans and their feelings and/or knowledge get ignored, because a machine knows better.

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“I’m sorry.”

According to an article issued by Associated Press [Update 2/26/2007: The link does not work anymore. Please let me know if you of are aware of a working one. Thank you.]:

The hospitals in the University of Michigan Health System have been encouraging doctors since 2002 to apologize for mistakes. The system’s annual attorney fees have since dropped from $3 million to $1 million, and malpractice lawsuits and notices of intent to sue have fallen from 262 filed in 2001 to about 130 per year, said Rick Boothman, a former trial attorney who launched the practice there.

When was the last time you said sorry? Or one of your team members?

It might save you a lot - reputation, stress, money,…

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21 Tips on How to Get Bums on Seats from my friend Philip Calvert:

Getting a room full of people is always seen as one of the main challenges when hosting a seminar, workshop, product demonstration or other ‘live marketing’ event.

Here are 21 great ideas to help.

1. Charge an entry fee


2. Bonuses for attendence


3. Irresistible material


4. Stress the benefits


5. Early bird discount


6. Discount for booking on-line, by fax, etc


7. Door prize


8. Invite existing clients


9. Invite business introducers


10. Bring a friend


11. Work with the press


12. Write articles


13. Get help!


14. Get sponsorship


15. Hot seats


16. Ask for referrals


17. Choose the right day


18. Choose the right venue


19. Be recognized as an expert


20. Use all types of promotion


21. Give to get…


22. Bonus tips

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My wife and I enjoyed watching that short movie (Be careful when driving )

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Yes, the one we’ve all been waiting for… the Darwin Award 2001.

The candidates have finally been released! For those not familiar with the Darwin Award, it’s an annual honor given to the person who provided the Universal human gene pool the biggest service by getting killed in the most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition this year has been keen again. Some candidates appear to have trained their whole lives for this event!

The Candidates

In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who “totally zoned when he ran,” according to his wife, accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.

Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach goers said Daniel Jones, 21 dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on.Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.

In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.

According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was
trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was wearing.

Sylvester Briddell, Jr, 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario, Daniel Kolta, 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie in the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles.

Darwin Award Honorable Mentions
In Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede with a shot from his 22 caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull.

In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house.

Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, in September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, by a quarter-stick of dynamite that blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window was closed.


More also rank:

Tacoma, WA - Kerry Bingham, had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 am. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman’s cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham’s leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. “All I can say,” said Bingham, “is that God was watching out for me on that night. There’s just no other explanation for it.” Bingham’s foot was never located.

And the winner:

Paderborn, Germany - Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly-and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him like a dump truck full of mud. “The sheer force of the elephant’s unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him,” said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. “With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. “It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that happen.”

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That’s an easy one

200 grams butter
2 eggs
200 grams sugar
200 grams flour
herbs and spices as you like.

Stir the butter until white, add the eggs and then slowly add the sugar. Then the flour.

The secret is that you really need to mix the ingredients for a long long time. At least ten minutes for the butter, then an additional ten when adding the eggs and so on.
Thank God we have electrical mixers!

Bake at 375 for around 40 minutes.

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Although we were disappointed to learn that you guys had known about this vulnerability for several months and did not notify us. [Or fixed it!]

Classic.
Scary.

How can you look at yourself in the mirror knowing that your software has a vulnerability but doing nothing about it? How can you even sleep tight a night?

Over and over again have I witnessed developers been ordered to stop testing software—because the management did not like the fact that they discovered uncounted bugs and vulnerabilities.

Brian Tracey said:

“The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. Profits are a measure of how well a company is fulfilling its purpose.”

So - what is the purpose of a company not revealing known security issues for several months?

Taking a closer look we can come up with a few possibilities: Read the rest of this entry »

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