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Let’s Circle Back and Have a Quick-and-Dirty Meeting to Touch Base
Does the title of this piece look familiar? It should, because it’s chock-full of nonsensical business jargon, the sort of stuff you and I read and hear on a daily basis. The sentence above falls under the heading of what Dan Pallotta of the Harvard Business Review Blog Network has creatively labeled “Abstract Valley Girl 2.0…
A New Look for an Old Nemesis
As many of you have probably read, Windows 8 is going to include an update to the appearance of the infamous Blue Screen of Death (a.k.a. BSoD). Instead of containing the ominous message many Windows users have come to dread, the refined look will be much simpler and “friendlier,” with a “sad face” emoticon taking…
Please Donate to End Famine in East Africa
While most major media outlets in the United States have been focused on the US debt ceiling debate and Standard & Poor’s recent downgrade of the US credit rating, a humanitarian crisis has been raging in the horn of Africa. According to the United Nations, famine has already killed tens of thousands in Somalia, the…
How RomeVille Gradually and Insidiously
Usurped Control of My Life
Those of you who know me well will be unsurprised by the hyperbole in the title of this piece. Those of you who know me even better will, with some amusement, realize that this is no exaggeration. I refer to the fact that I have only recently cast off the shackles of an addictive Facebook…
Volunteering for Business à la Tom Sawyer
Now that I finally have a moment, I’d like to share with you a brief after action review of Hodgson’s participation in this year’s CVC-sponsored Volunteering for Business Day. As you may recall, last year’s event at the Button Farm entailed dislodging/sawing/hacking some absolutely massive logs before exerting superhuman effort to move them to a…
Race to End Poverty Successful—Chevy Chase, MD No Longer Impoverished!
Saturday April 9th saw an elite group of Olympic-caliber athletes emerge from behind the keyboards and monitors at Hodgson’s Kensington offices to strive with champions in “The Race to End Poverty.” This 5K charity event was sponsored by A Wider Circle, a local philanthropic organization that “provides basic need items to families transitioning out of…