Entries from April 2009 ↓

a salty tongue in technology

My favorite interview question for people who will be working with me is: “how do you feel about a liberal use of profanities?“  Yup, for someone so enamored with the written word it surprises many what a salty tongue I have.  I learned my basic repertoire from George Carlin, The Seven Dirty Words You Can’t [...]

another name for human resources?

When you work for a small company (e.g. less than 25 people) odds are you don’t have a dedicated human resources department.  At this stage human resources is pretty much covered by the management team and common sense.  In their own way they stumble through corporate conduct and values, recruiting, orientation, training, performance management, leadership [...]

chart of account template?

I was trolling through our site analytics today and I was surprised that almost 15% of the hits to the site were from the key word search: “chart of account template.”  What’s going on?
why is the chart of accounts so important?
Well, the chart of accounts is a listing of all the accounts that your accounting [...]

valuation techniques?

I started my working career at Sun Microsystems (in the hardware division - SMCC) in the early 90’s and was very fortunate to work with some extremely talented people in the Valley.  You could say that time really molded my work ethic and I have been watching them ever since.  Since the dot.com bubble burst [...]