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Today, I had a few realization that just set me back.  And it all stems from a simple question which is, am I responsible?  It begs the bigger question, what are you responsible for? (more…)

At my company, we have launched a nice little dream home finder tool! It is quite funny if I don’t say so myself. See for yourself. After taking the short quiz, below is my dream home:

Recently, the company I work for, eHarbor, has decided to put a few individuals feet to the fire.  Basically, we have given them an ultimatum.  Perform, or go home.

I personally love this.  As the Chief Technology Officer, I demand this of everyone in my department.  They clearly know that even though they did something great yesterday, that doesn’t buy them much today.

So, now that my thoughts are out there, when is your job really on the line?  Am I a bit too extreme in thinking you have to prove yourself everyday?  Or can one rest on their laurels knowing they did a good job yesterday, or six months ago?
IMHO, the simple answer is you must prove yourself everyday.  Sure, some days there won’t be much to prove.  But why rest?  Resting is for the weary, I choose to believe that I am not the weary.  I am the  few, the proud … wait, I am not a marine, but I am not weary.  I am a leader and have to show it everyday.  I feel all should feel the same way.  Whether you are in a management position or not.  You need to prove yourself day in and day out.

Now the trick here is showing your manager what you have done and what you are worth on a daily basis.  That is a topic for another day.

Yesterday, I had to do something I have never done before.  I had to let someone from my team go.  Now, being the CTO as eHarbor Inc., I have hired about 10 people, but I  haven’t had to let anyone of them go.  Until yesterday.

Luckily, he saw it coming.  When you are the low man on the totem pole, and your work is sub par compared to the team, you see these things coming.

So long story short, my foray into firing went well, if you could call it that.  No tears were shed and I think my ulcer didn’t have too much added to it.

I just stumbled across this wonderful article on update your permalink settings in wordpress.  While customizing my permalink structure, I came across list of permalink options on the wordpress site itself.

I would suggest that everyone should check it out, it could help out quite a bit.

While upgrading a site and adding in flash, I got this nice little “feature” in IE. When every you hover over the embeded flash file, it A) creates a border around the file and B) asks you to “click to activate and use this control”.

After a little research, I figured it out. The problem stems from Microsoft ActiveX Change. The resolution is quite easy. All you have to do it have JavaScript insert the flash instead of embeding it into the HTML. The solution is demonstrated below.

As you can tell, all I am doing is passing the ID of the div, the url, width and height of the flash and letting javascript embed it for me.

Answering Bush’s competition challenge

This is a good read for all. We need to all figure out where we stand and then actually stand there. Helping out the economy isn’t the governments jobs, it is all of our’s job.

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