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Wordpress 2.6.3 Upgrade Successful

Craig @ October 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.3 went without a problem.  The only minor glitch occurred with the statpress directory was renamed wp-statpress.  Once I reinstalled statpress in the proper directory, everything was fine.
Hats off to Wordpress and its contributors.

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Podcast Recording with iPhone

admin @ October 16, 2008 # 2 Comments

Yesterday I had the pleasure of using my iPhone to record a couple of podcasts.
In the past, producing podcast recordings was time consuming. I would record the audio using either Garageband or Audacity and a USB mic. I would then export the file to the desktop, import into iTunes, and convert to mp3. I then [...]

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Successful Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3

Craig @ February 8, 2008 # One Comment

WordPress recently released 2.3.3 to correct a security issue and to provide fixes for some minor bugs. I thought about just correcting the security issue but WordPress recently introduced into the code a check to warn the administrator when the version of WordPress was out of date. Figuring that just replacing 1 php [...]

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Plain Simple Management Now More Printer Friendly

Craig @ January 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Hopefully, this site is now a more printer friendly site than it was a few minutes ago.
Thanks to the tutorial at Styling for Print WordPress Codex , I have added a print stylesheet to eliminate the sidebars, comments, and other elements not required in printing. You can use your browser’s print feature to [...]

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PSM #21: Time Management

Craig @ September 27, 2006 # One Comment

PSM21: Time Management

Hello, this is Plain Simple Mangement, I am Craig Walters, and today’s podcast deals with Time ManagementThank you all for your responses to my poll, and thank you for visiting my web site. In the future the web site will become a more integral part of the podcast, so please visit here [...]

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PSM #14: The Manager’s Mind — Notes

Craig @ May 8, 2006 # No Comment Yet

The Manager’s Mind

What the manager thinks about his organization matters.
Request from reader to discuss the Hawthrone experiments

Western Electric Company, Chicago
1924-1933
change in working conditions had unexpected effects
belief that change occurred because subjects knew they were being measured for the effect

Observer Effect

Schrodinger’s cat

observation creates meaning

can not observe [measure] something without affecting it

tire pressure

Subject expectancy effect

subject expects a [...]

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