We’ve all have bad habits we need to kick. But we don’t because we are comfortable in them. They are easy and changing is hard. But more times than not, changing the bad habit will actually make life easier for you in the long run. You know this. We all do.

But today is the day to kick some of these bad habits. Why? Because they are interfering with your work performance. They are creating roadblocks for you either mentally or physically, or sometimes even both. You know it and I know it.

Last week, Yahoo launched its new Panama search platform amidst much buzz throughout the blogosphere. As part of the new model, Yahoo will be implementing a scoring system to determine ad quality, which will in turn have an influence on bid prices for keywords.

We’re less than two weeks into Panama, and already Yahoo has been more forthcoming with information concerning its quality score calculation that Google was within the first two months.

Matt Aslett writes that Oracle may be considering Unbreakable Support for MySQL and that MySQL Co. is likely to IPO later this year.

An article on the upcoming Gartner BI conference caught my eye.

Like anyone else, I find Steve Job’s product launch presentations to be mesmerizing.

I love it when the blogosphere gets worked up and makes generalizations from one piece of data.

Sales executives have long embraced the vision of leveraging incentive compensation to drive performance within their sales teams.

Every programmer loves to optimize, even when we know we shouldn’t.