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How Gulliver’s Travels predicted AI and our attempts to make sense of it all

Workplace Insight

Gulliver’s Travels is one of those books we assume we know. It even manages to offer up a proto-LLM in the form of The Engine, a device found in the city of Lagado, impoverished by a commitment to relentless, pointless research. He contrasts them unfavourably with the thuggish Yahoos of mankind. Grandville ).

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IAAP, Yahoo and Air Travel

Laughing all the Way to Work

I thought I would pass on something from the e-newsletter because this week there was a link to a Yahoo article with a list of 20 Tips from Air Travel Insiders. If you are involved in making travel arrangements for your boss or even for your own personal travel, this is well worth the read. Click here to read more.

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Top 5 Tips for Safe Business Travel

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips for Safe Business Travel by Stefan Töpfer on Apr 26, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Find out about the area you are travelling to beforehand, especially travel warnings & regional issues. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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How to Successfully Manage Remote Employees

Office Dynamics

Conversely, other companies like Yahoo! Video allows for a more personal interaction and the immediate follow-up/clarification that often gets lost in written communication. For up to ten people, Google Hangouts or Skype work great. Yearly meet-ups: Every year, plan a retreat for the entire team.

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Eco Mobile and Broadband

Eco-Office Gals

Discarded cell phones, computers and other electronic devices usually end up in garbage dumps and landfills creating a major high techwaste problem. You can use major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to find companies that specialize in purchasing and recycling or refurbishing old cell phones.

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On E-mail Blackouts.

Professional Assistant Blog

It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. I have two Gmail accounts, a Yahoo account and even a Hotmail account I haven’t visited in years. Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday.

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

The topic was on personal branding and they were making recommendations to executives on how to polish up their image. I use this all the time on my calendar and my boss's calendar, and it helps us both to know which events are phone calls which he can take in the office or on the road (yellow) or which events will require travel (blue).

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