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  • There Are No People In Headquarters Right Now, Says Cisco CEO

    There Are No People In Headquarters Right Now, Says Cisco CEO

    “We have a significant business that is related to corporate headquarter facilities and there are no people in those headquarters right now,” says Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. “So there is a lot of discussion around what does corporate real estate look like? I personally believe that once we get through the vaccine period that people will want to get back to the offices in general. It’s going to be fine.”

    Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems discusses the impact of COVID on their business strategy considering Q4 earnings and how this will impact their future:

    There Are No People In Headquarters Right Now

    It doesn’t feel much different today than it did 90 days ago. We have a significant business that is related to corporate headquarter facilities and there are no people in those headquarters right now. So there is a lot of discussion around what does corporate real estate look like? I personally believe that once we get through the vaccine period that people will want to get back to the offices in general. It’s going to be fine.

    We are going to use this opportunity to actually shift our investments and prepare for that moment. I think that when we get to the other side of this thing that with the strategy and the portfolio we have we are going to be fine.

    Why Webex Didn’t Carry The Day For Us

    I heard several comments that are questioning why Webex didn’t carry the day for us today. Webex grew double digits so we had good success with it. But in the context of our almost $50 business, it’s a small percentage. It’s a very small number in that context. We had success, it’s still growing and the teams are doing a great job.

    There is a whole lot of innovation that is planned over the coming months for that platform. We’re excited about what’s going on. As we’ve talked about, it is secure and enterprise-grade and that’s where it shines.

    There Are No People In Headquarters Right Now, Says Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins

  • Michael Bolton Opens Up About Struggles With Career In Telling Interview

    Michael…Bolton? Yes, the ACTUAL Michael Bolton, and not a software engineer at Initech, has opened up in a telling interview with Huffington Post. He just so happens to have a biography coming out as well, titled ‘The Soul of it All’.

    Bolton opened up during the interview, talking about how he trekked across country in the 60’s at the age of 14. Calls it a miracle that he survived those experiences. Did a large amount of drugs, even claiming to smoke banana peels.

    He grew up in a poor family, with his parents divorced. He started getting involved in music at the age of 13-14, after being involved in sports before then.

    Received his first record deal at age 16. It took Bolton 18 years after that first deal before he received his first big hit. He said his first record deal felt like he’d signed with the Yankees. One of his early works was writing and producing songs for Cher.

    He shows his humorous side, talking about his experience working with The Lonely Island and doing his rendition of Captain Jack Sparrow.

    Bolton started out in rock and roll circles. He actually worked with Paul Stanley in one of the first bands he was a part of, called Blackjack. Bolton also reveals his ties with Kanye West, and how he had to ask his daughters who he was before working with him.

    He spent a good portion of the interview providing advice to those looking to get into a music career. He says to work with a voice coach, and just continue to work at it. Talent and passion can’t get you as far as you need to and compares it to training for the Olympics.

    Bolton even talked about his sex life, with this direct quote form his book, “Unlike Santa, the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny, sex was real. Soon other girls were more than willing to get naked with me. I was stunned at my luck. I’ll be forever grateful that my first was a patient, kind, gifted, and enthusiastic instructor. Once she’d introduced me to the glories of sex, I realized what I’d been missing in my first precious thirteen years of life. I had to make up for lost time. So I immediately asked when we could do it again”

    He then talks about dating stars Nicollete Sheridan and Teri Hatcher.

    Bolton then gives his opinion about the current state of music, and talks about his thoughts about Justin Timberlake, and says he could have a Frank Sinatra like career before all is said and done.

    And just in case you were wondering what Bolton thinks about Office Space, he’s pushing for Mike Judge to make a sequel and hopes he can star in it.

  • “Boardwalk Empire” To Be “Office Space” Reunion

    “Boardwalk Empire” has announced they’ll be bringing on some fresh blood for the fourth season, and it’s none other than “Office Space” actor Ron Livingston. He’ll be joining co-star Stephen Root, who already plays a Department of Justice investigator on the show.

    While details are scarce for the moment, it looks like Livingston will be playing a wealthy Jersey transplant who gets involved with Gillian Darmody, played with sexy insanity by Gretchen Moll. It’s also rumored that the show will jump forward a bit in time for the upcoming season to take place in 1924, when J. Edgar Hoover famously took over as head of the FBI and gangsters like Al Capone–whose presence on the show has so far been overshadowed by the bigger personalities–began making a name for themselves. One juicy rumor about the fourth season is that Agent Van Alden (played with precision by Michael Shannon) will be going even further rogue and joining Capone’s crew.

    The introduction of new characters is always welcome on shows like this one, where the storylines can become repetitive otherwise, but after the shocking ending of season three, it will be nice to see some of the old favorite characters come into new territory.

  • Watch Office Space in its Entirety For Free

    For no real reason – other than it’s Monday – and it’s a great movie, here is the entire movie “Office Space”, free of charge. Not sure if this qualifies as copyright infringement, but that’s not for us to decide, anyway. All you have to do is enjoy it… before YouTube and Twentieth Century Fox decide to take it down.

    Scroll to the bottom for some fun facts and cool things to look for while watching the movie.

    Fun Facts via IMDB:

    A lot of the film was shot in Austin, Texas. Cotchkie’s is a real restuarant called “the Alligator Grille” in Austin. It closed down in 2009.

    Peter Gibbons lives in the “Morningwood Apartments”

    Chotchkie’s gets its name from the Yiddish word meaning a cheap trinket or knick-knack.

    One of the names Drew lists as people who have slept with Joanna is David Rennie, the film’s editor.

    The directory where the virus in the movie is stored is “C:/LR427/Virus_CDEF”. CDEF was a real virus in the 90’s that effected macs. Among some of the problems it was known to have caused: printing errors.

    “PC Load Letter” means the printer is out of or does not recognize the size of the paper in the tray and is instructing the user to insert Letter-sized (8.5 by 11) paper. It was a common display error on older model HP laserjet printers.

    Due to the popularity of the film, Swingline began producing red staplers after customers began requesting them. They had discontinued production of red staplers many years prior.

    Artie Lange auditioned for the role of Milton.

    Joanna is Jennifer Aniston’s real life middle name.

    In the software industry, TPS stands for “Test Procedure Specification”. It is a set of steps for quality assurance testers to follow in testing a software feature.

    Mike Judge has said the term in the film world stands for “Test Program Set”.

    Despite being a classic cult film, it did not do well in the box office. It barely made its estimated budget back in the two month and two weeks it was in theaters.

  • Cloud Computing Emerging As A Coveted Business Model

    Cloud Computing Emerging As A Coveted Business Model

    The budding surge of cloud computing in businesses is only just beginning, according to a study released today by IBM. Over the next three years, the study found, the number of businesses that will adopt cloud computing is expected to more than double as business leaders look to capitalize on the rapid availability of data and the growing popularity of social media.

    Collaborating with the Economist Intelligence Unit, IBM surveyed over 500 business and technology executives from around the world in hopes of not only understanding more about how organizations use cloud today, but how this emerging model will affect the future of business.

    “Companies are starting to understand — cloud isn’t just about gaining efficiencies and cost savings; it’s about driving the kind of fundamental innovation that provides lasting marketplace advantage,” said Saul Berman, IBM global strategy consulting leader and co-author of the study.

    While 16% of the execs surveyed said they are already using cloud capabilities, 35% said they intend to use it to improve their business by 2015. Although more than half of all respondents named “improving organizational efficiency” as the top challenge for businesses today, only 31% believe that will be one of the top challenges for businesses in three years. One reason for why organizational efficiency won’t be such a problem in the future will be due to the implementation of cloud computing.

    Other notable findings on how cloud computing is set to change business include:

  • 62% of survey participants said increased collaboration with external partners is a key objective for adopting cloud.
  • 57% cited competitive cost advantages through vertical integration as a major motivation.
  • 56% pointed to opening new delivery channels and markets as an important objective.

    • “Cloud has the power to open doors to more efficient, responsive and innovative ways of doing business, and we believe the companies that will come out on top will be the ones that find ways to leverage it as a key point of differentiation in driving business value,” Berman said. “Whether they choose to tap cloud to optimize, innovate or even disrupt their business models, they need to start working on it now.”

  • Desk Job Death: How Your Workday Is Killing You Softly & Slowly

    Desk Job Death: How Your Workday Is Killing You Softly & Slowly

    Did you ever hear the one about the brazen bull? As execution methods go, it’s one of the more gruesome methods you’re going to come across. The apparatus involved a hollow, bronze statue of a bull with a panel door on the side so that the condemned could be stuffed into the belly of the bull. Once the condemned was locked inside the bronze bull, a fire was lit underneath the statue which caused the person inside to literally be roasted alive.

    Agonizing, no?

    If there were a 2012 equivalent to the brazen bull, look no further than the office desk you may be sitting at right now as you read this article. While not nearly as brutal, the modern office desk might be considered one of the quieter methods of self-conscripted execution. Just look at the number of fitness magazines that have run stories about the fatal perils of sitting at an office desk for eight hours (or more, if you’ve got that special kind of rotten luck) and you’ll find stories about how it makes you sick, makes you fat, makes you weak, and even makes you dead.

    All that time spent sitting and staring at a computer while your fingers engage in a zombified Riverdance across your keyboard is one of the worst things you can be doing to yourself. A study by the University of Hong Kong even found that people would be better off walking around and smoking than sitting all day and doing nothing. More, a quarter of all deaths of people aged 35 and up were caused by a lack of physical exercise.

    Death-by-desk job is becoming such a white collar health epidemic that there are now exercise regimens designed specifically for people who stay velcroed to their office chair all day. Seriously, your hours spent toiling at your desk job isn’t going to result in a fun retirement party; it’s going to result in one chilly dirt nap, and probably sooner than your retirement pension would kick in, too.

    Are you freaking out yet? If you are it’s obviously not enough because you’re still sitting there reading this. As an incentive to get your ass up and moving, have a look at this infographic about how your desk job is systematically filing years off of your life. When you’re done, do yourself a favor and go walk around for a bit. If nothing else, it’ll keep the blood in your legs from calcifying before the end of your work day.

    Work Is Murder
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