Author: CBPS
Peter Mehit is co-founder and Managing Partner of Custom Business Planning and Solutions, a business consulting firm that provides problem solving, planning and process help. He has worked from private equity to the Fortune 100 at all stages.
He can be reached at pmehit@wbpllc.com or at 800-741-8444.
Isis mocked with rubber ducks as internet fights terror with humour | The Guardian
Members of Reddit group 4chan superimpose duck heads on to images of Isis fighters, setting off craze that has spread to Twitter and Facebook
Crashes since 11/11/15 Updates in both Outlook 2010 and 2013 when viewing HTML e-mails.
After dealing with non-stop crashes of my Outlook account, I found this posting. Disable Update patch KB3097877 and your Outlook will work just fine again.
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Per subject, was finding that specific e-mail were consistently causing Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 to crash. They were always HTML messages, typically the sort of “on sale” e-mail you get from distributors etc that include a lot of tables, images etc.
I started by removing the IE11 cumulative update but that didn’t resolve the crashes. I then removed KB3097877 & KB3101746 and I’ve not been able to reproduce the crashes on 2 PC’s since.
“This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open a specially crafted document or to go to an untrusted webpage that contains embedded fonts.”
The patches were only release 10~ hours ago
Living and Dying on Airbnb | Medium
It is wishful thinking that Airbnb can scale up “what makes this global community so special” rather than have its community become co-opted by the values of the global marketplace — presumably efficiency, the maximization of profit, and personal interest (as opposed to “trust and safety”). It seems like Airbnb would like to wish away the complexities of what community really means: shared interests that hold people together, a set of agreed-upon rules to keep people in check, and transparency.
Frenchman develops ‘cure’ for builder’s bum | The Local
Builder’s crack, plumber’s bum, the coinslot, bottom cleavage…
No matter where you go in the world, there’s an expression for the unfortunate moment when a tradesman or woman bends down and reveals the top end of their backside.
In French, it’s called the plumber’s smile (sourire de plombier) or even the “mason’s line” (raie du maçon).
“I’m not changing the world… maybe just a bit. It’s not like I’ve found a cure for Aids – just for the builder’s crack.”
Paul Ryan’s Chairmen Do End Run On 9/11 Responders | Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — Two of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) newly empowered committee chairmen took immediate advantage Thursday of the freshly elected leader’s pledge to give power back to committees — and may have handed him a 9/11-related publicity disaster.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the head of the Energy and Commerce Committee, both announced measures to temporarily extend the expiring 9/11 health and compensation programs.
In the process, they appear to have ignored permanent 9/11 legislation that was already proposed and sponsored by a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a majority of more than 240 members in the House.
Stupid Management Tricks – The Vanishing Fourth Floor | Los Angeles Times
When They Hit the Ceiling, These Execs Just Move to the Next Floor
Apparently, company bigwigs decided that changing the number of the floor–which houses all the executive suites–would stop employees from referring to management as “the fourth floor” (as in “You won’t believe what the fourth floor did today” or “Naturally, the layoffs don’t affect the fourth floor”).
So presto, they turned it into the fifth floor. The elevators now stop at 1, 2, 3 and . . . 5, all room numbers on the floor no longer begin with a “4” and corporate directories were reprinted to eliminate any trace of the number that dare not speak its name.
We wanted to ask Hunt-Wesson if it also plans to refer to the Fourth of July as July 5, but we were told that the company’s lone spokeswoman was on the road (perhaps in her new five-wheel-drive sport utility vehicle) and unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile, employees have begun referring to management as “the fifth floor,” and the Beatles are now known as the Fab Five.
Lydia was a contractor of Hunt Wesson when this occurred. She and her friend ran to the renumbered building. ‘GTFO’, said Lydia’s friend as they read the numbers in the elevator: ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, 5′. – Ed
Trapped under a flash flood – Rock climbers hit – YouTube
Canyoneering in Zion National Park takes a turn for the worse when four rock climbers are pinned under a 300 foot waterfall.
Unfreakin’ believable, this is. – Ed.
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED
At that point, the interstate began to slope upward, so the Jeep lost more momentum and barely crept forward. Cars lined up behind my bumper before passing me, honking. I could see an 18-wheeler approaching in my rearview mirror. I hoped its driver saw me, too, and could tell I was paralyzed on the highway.
“You’re doomed!” Valasek shouted, but I couldn’t make out his heckling over the blast of the radio, now pumping Kanye West. The semi loomed in the mirror, bearing down on my immobilized Jeep.
7 Mistakes to Avoid When Making Direct Investments | Axial
As the number of family offices that pursue direct investments in private companies increases, so too do the number of misguided deals. Over the years we’ve heard plenty of examples from family offices where the direct investments they made were tremendously successes, but also where there were lessons to be learned. In the spirit of passing on that knowledge, we have compiled a few common mistakes made in direct investing
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