Microsoft Wants Overpaid Laid Off Employees to Pay Them Back

Microsoft is asking some of the 1,400 employees they laid off last month to pay back money overpaid to them in a severance check. We are also hearing rumors that other employees were underpaid.

An HR screw up like this isn’t much of an endorsement for Microsoft’s Dynamics Human Resources Management Software.

History of the Internet

History of the internet is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file sharing, and from Arpanet to Internet.

Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave from Apple

Steve Jobs just announced he is taking a medical leave from Apple until June of 2009. Rumors that Jobs was suffering from a serious medical condition were recently confirmed by Jobs. He is currently on medication to try to correct his illness.

Get well soon.

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is trying to put Apple stockholders, and Apple product owners, at ease regarding the rumors that he is very sick, and could die soon. Jobs wrote a letter below dated January, 5, 2009:

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve

One thing is for sure, Jobs IS very ill, and if his new "treatment" doesn’t work, he will get sicker.

Nikon S60 Face Detection Ads

The Nikon S60 can detect up to 12 faces. These ads for the Nikon S60 show some entertaining ways of getting the face detection point across. Euro RSCG Singapore came up with a similar ad campaign that show people in the wilderness getting their picture taken, and in the background you could see, thanks to the face detection, the faces of gnomes and fairies.