Reprise: A Great Miracle Happened Here!
Take Your Chances, Win Some Gelt Chanukah 2017, With My HR Tech Wishes For 2018 Have you ever played the Chanukah game of spin the dreidel? With or without the modified rules derived from “spin the bottle?” Did you know that the four letters, one on each side of the dreidel, make up a phrase that […]
In Enterprise Software And Luxury Accommodations, Details Matter And No Disappointments Accepted
Ron and I have been spending a lovely holiday in England, treating ourselves to very high end accommodations in London and the Cotswolds, and now on the south coast of Cornwall. We’ve been having a wonderful time, including visits with friends, lots of theater in London, and endless explorations of quiet Cotswold and Cornish villages. Our […]
A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold
A Page From Bloom’s Camera 1950 Catalog On Christmas Eve, my Dad’s retail camera shop closed early, and we knew we’d have him with us all that next day. Really just with us, even if he was too tired for much conversation after working the very long hours of the retail Christmas season. New Year’s […]
Lars From Mars, The Wookey, Carmen Miranda And Me
Island Of Lost Souls — 1932 When Ron and I moved near DC in 1977, there was a late night TV program, called “Creature Features,” that we loved. It was hosted by Dick Dyszel who, for reasons lost in the mists of marital life, I nicknamed Lars from Mars. Dick played rarely shown early SciFi films, many […]
Monaco To Paris With Twitterscope Up
Provence, Toujours Provence You’ll have noticed that my last post went up on May 3rd, shortly after we left for two weeks vacation. Before I return to our regularly scheduled programming, to blogs on more or less professional topics, I wanted to say a few words about this vacation and its impact on my state of […]
A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold
Bloom’s Camera Catalogue Circa 1950 On Christmas Eve, my Dad’s retail camera shop closed early, and we knew we’d have him with us all that next day. Really just with us, even if he was too tired for much conversation after working the very long hours of the retail Christmas season. New Year’s Day was for […]
Thomas Wailgum Inspired Post #1 — My Airing Of Grievances
Modeling My Grievances! I was much inspired by Thomas Wailgum’s post today about how various ”tech vendors, CIOs, analysts and other assorted IT types” had let him down in 2010. It’s a great catalogue of bad behavior by people and companies who should know better, and I enjoyed it so much that I read it twice before […]
Father’s Day Thoughts: Remembering Jack Samuel Bloom
From my Dad I inherited:
* his ability to tell a good story, to make a point while making you laugh;
* his commitment to active friendship, the kind of friendship that does what you need even when you don’t know you need it;
* his belief that any day on which you wake up is already a good day, that the gift of life is too precious to waste;
In Search Of HRM/HRMDS/HR Tech “Best” Practices: Istanbul To Venice — Field Report Part I
Istanbul Was Constantinopal, Now It’s Istanbul Ron and I were traveling from from 4/30 through 5/17/10 from Istanbul to Venice, soaking up “best” practices in HRM, the HRM delivery system and HR technology every step of the way. I did some live tweeting from “the road” and sent frequent travel bulletins to friends and family. I had […]
