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VATICAN   |  Comment

Praise Solar: Vatican to Build Europe's Largest Solar Plant

Europe is getting a massive new solar plant, all thanks to Vatican City and the cardinal sin of pollution. Europe's largest solar farm, estimated to cost $660 million, will be built on the same 740 acres in the Vatican where ...READ»

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Work/Life: Ten Commandments of Work/Life Balance

Ceo Dad's Tuesday Tirade.... As you’ve no doubt heard, the Vatican recently issued its “ten commandments” of how humans should think about behaving in regards to our cars. The document includes a reference to not using our ...READ»

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Education: Losing and Gaining Religion

With my last post about Brooklyn's controversial Khalil Gibran International Academy in mind, I couldn't help but notice recent headlines on a Hebrew charter school in Florida and Catholic schools in Washington, D.C. As I discussed ...READ»

Drop That Lasagna! This Is a Raid!

Watch out, recipe sharers and baseball-card traders! Now that the music biz is going after file swappers, you may be next.READ»

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Look to the Catholic Church for Search Engine Optimization Techniques

After my analogy between LEGOs, Play-Doh and CSS (see "A Bettery Way for Organizing CSS"), I'll go out on a further limb and compare the best practices for URL canonicalization with what the Catholic Church has been doing ...READ»

Fast Growth, Great Service

In a period of diminished hopes and slower growth, Convergys is a change of pace -- a company that's growing fast without sacrificing service. And it better not: service is its business.READ»

Take This Job and Shove It!

Ah yes, you've got to love the hastily penned resignation letter that doubles as an embittered list of grievances, invariably peppered with ill-thought-out sexual requests for your (by now former) boss to perform. The more ...READ»

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Facebook Gets Religion, But You Can't Poke the Pope

The kind of fame Facebook finds always brings its own surprising developments. For example: The Pope just joined. But elsewhere Muslim clerics are busy debating the merits and morals of the social 'net. Did Facebook just get ...READ»

Outsourcing: What's Next?

We've heard a lot about American companies farming out programming, call center or back-office work to India. But we may be less aware of the offshoring of other jobs -- such as clergymen and soldiers. With Roman Catholic clergy in ...READ»