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From espn.com: Jim Boeheim and the Syracuse Orange have emerged from a pack of previously unbeatens and a season of unprecedented controversy to become the No. 1 team in the country. Syracuse gained a near-unanimous vote at the top of the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll released Monday. “We’re proud to be No. 1 in the [...] - Adam Parnes

When we had the opportunity to choose a bank to open our daughter’s bank account we had tons of options in Reston. We could’ve selected a for profit bank (Bank of America…). But my wife and I decided to choose a credit union. Why is that a big deal? When you join a credit union [...] - Adam Parnes

Pete Thamel, NYT, reports on second guessing of how Syracuse University handled an anonymous email accusing Bernie Fine of molestation in 2005. When Bobby Davis sent an anonymous e-mail to Syracuse University in 2005, saying that the associate men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine had molested him, the university asked its legal counsel to start an investigation. The [...] - Adam Parnes

I’ve been struggling for years to be able to easily copy text from a Microsoft Word document and paste it into SharePoint’s WYSIWYG editor. The problem is that Word adds so much junk to the HTML code that’s it’s pretty much useless. That’s where Markdown comes in. I’ve been cutting and pasting text from Word [...] - Adam Parnes

During my commute this morning I saw a 7inch widescreen tablet for the first time. I can totally understand watching videos or movies in landscape, but reading a magazine or book in portrait doesn’t make sense. Maybe I’m biased by the iPad that works well in either orientation. - Adam Parnes

Dear SU Community: Tonight, in the wake of troubling new allegations that emerged in the media today, I am writing to let you know that Bernie Fine’s employment at the University has been terminated effective immediately. Frankly, the events of the past week have shaken us all. The taped phone call that ESPN revealed today [...] - Adam Parnes

Pete Thamel, New York Times, reports about the latest developments in Syracuse. Bernie Fine was fired tonight after a third molestation charge surfaced. Boeheim was criticized by victim’s rights advocates for his comments. He later invoked the name of the former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who was fired after the former defensive coordinator Jerry [...] - Adam Parnes

My [iPhone 4s](http://www.apple.com/iphone/) had a stuck pixel. I hoped it would go away after I used the phone. It didn’t. I’ve been living with a dead pixel in the middle of the screen for almost two months. Earlier this week I made a Genius appointment at my [local Apple retail store](http://www.apple.com/retail...) after finding out Apple [...] - Adam Parnes

During the last couple of weeks I haven’t followed my own advice. I haven’t been blogging. What have I been doing? I’ve been listening to podcasts from 5by5, playing a new video game or listening to a new genre of music (chiptunes). I haven’t been able to focus on what I feel I need to [...] - Adam Parnes

Penelope Trunk responds to comments about her week-long series on how to blog. So most advice about blogging is stupid, because making money from ads on your blog is a lost cause. But you know what you can do really well with a blog? Create a stable, engaging, career – that is not blogging – [...] - Adam Parnes

Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ.com, investigates why texting turns us back into teenagers. Consider our relationship with our smartphones. Many of us carry one at all times, customize it with ring tones and cases and sleep with it. (We pretend this is because we need to use its alarm function.) And research has shown that we get [...] - Adam Parnes

Here’s a great synopsis of Google’s changes to Reader by Donald Jenkins. The fuss over Google Reader’s sharing provisions should be kept in proportion: after all, the main purpose of Reader is reading, not sharing—and I’ll be able to continue doing that exactly as before. And, more crucially, given that Google have embarked on their—in [...] - Adam Parnes

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs Published in the New York Times on October 30, 2011. - Adam Parnes

I’ve owned several PowerBooks and a MacBook Pro, but none of them have met all of my requirements as well as my MacBook Air 13”. I sold my MacBook Pro 17” because it sat on my desk and wasn’t very portable. I might have taken it out of the house a few times. I could [...] - Adam Parnes

Here’s the description from iTunes. Description The definitive zombie shooter returns, reborn with stunning new graphics, gameplay and more! Brought to you by the creators of Battleheart, OMG Pirates!, and the original Zombieville USA – this sequel is jam packed with content and features. Take command of your favorite character, customize them with a spectrum [...] - Adam Parnes

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I’m using Siri to transcribe this post on my iPhone 4S. I found speaking my posts makes it much more conversational. If this works well I’ll try to do this more often and try to make my posts more conversational. Just reviewing what Siri transcribed it seems that it worked great. I never thought I [...] - Adam Parnes

I’m going to miss not staying up tonight and waiting in line with other Apple fans for the new iPhone. Even though I had a reservation last year, I still joined the line at the Reston Town Center Apple store. Glad I did, I had my phones in hand by 8:15 a.m. I heard others [...] - Adam Parnes

Matt Ridings shares a tool he uses to help strategize for change called “What? So What? What Now?” “What? So What? What Now?”* What? – What are we trying to accomplish big picture? So What? – Why are we trying to accomplish it?  What are the implications of doing so? What are the implications of [...] - Adam Parnes

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is [...] - Adam Parnes

A good example of employee communications with bad news. Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent the following email to all Apple employees: Team, I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.  Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing [...] - Adam Parnes

Last week I attended a forum hosted by National Geographic and facilitated by BlessingWhite. The forum’s topic was “Teaching to the Test.” Throughout the forum the presenter asked really powerful questions about our own understanding of employee engagement as well as how engaged we are. What I feel makes BlessingWhite’s approach to employee engagement unique [...] - Adam Parnes

Instagram was updated to 2.0 Agenda Calendar was updated to 2.0 and Foursquare was updated to 3.5 All three are on my home screen. - Adam Parnes

Zoe Fox, mashable.com, highlights a new Pew Research study about how adults in the US prefer to be reached. Almost one-third of U.S. adults prefer to be reached by text message rather than a voice call on their mobile phone, according to a study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. Three-quarters [...] - Adam Parnes

body { font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'; font-size: 17px; } It’s official: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Commissioner John D. Swofford today confirmed that the ACC has invited Syracuse University to join the conference and that the ACC presidents have voted to officially accept Syracuse as a conference member. Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor said today that [...] - Adam Parnes

The New York Times reports we’ll find out on Monday about the ACC’s decision about Syracuse and Pittsburg joining their conference. The switch by Pitt and Syracuse to the A.C.C. is expected to be formalized by Monday, which means a major domino in the overhaul of the collegiate sports landscape is about to fall. With [...] - Adam Parnes

body { font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'; font-size: 17px; } Crazy talk from the New York Times: Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh, two bedrock members of the Big East Conference, are engaged in talks about joining the Atlantic Coast Conference, according to a person with direct knowledge of the talks. No one from Pittsburgh, Syracuse or [...] - Adam Parnes

I’m really lucky to work where I work. The managers in my department truly care about their staff and their development. Oh, and they get it. The it, being how to engage their staff. During our engagement survey action planning session, we decided development was important. Because we decided on this topic together, we hired [...] - Adam Parnes