eManagr News

We’re forgotten but not gone, here.  There was a good “once a week” routine, for a while, but nothing lasts forever.

But there’s good news.

First, to my fellows in the United States, happy Labor Day.  It may interest some of you to know that the holiday didn’t originate as a “day of rest” or a counterpart to the Socialist May Day/International Workers’ Day celebrations.  No, it was a reaction to President Cleveland‘s military strikebreaking resolution to the Pullman Strike.

Not that you’d ever know it from the Department of Labor‘s version of the story.  Not even a mention of Congress rushing the legislation to prevent a nationwide uprising.

Today, Labor Day is different, depending on who you are:

• Back to school for the kids, teachers, and retailers,
• The “unofficial end of summer” for parks departments and the media,
• An unavoidable day off for employees, and so forth.

I’m pretty sure that nobody marks the passing of those killed by the strikebreakers, though.  Like Mothers Day, the origins of the day are lost on most people.

Moving along, this blog has slowed to a trickle because we’ve been moving around behind the scenes, which leads to a couple of minor announcements.

• First off, eManagr will soon have a baby sister of sorts.  It’s too soon to release any details, but you might expect some major news (and a discount) at the end of September or early October.  If you love your social networks, keep your eyes peeled.
• Some corrupted data in the blog database has been cleaned out.  If you wondered why you couldn’t read certain articles for a few days…well,  we still don’t know why, but a few odd characters snuck into a table.  If you didn’t notice, ignore me.
• We’re testing some new enhancements to the blog.  If they pan out, we’ll offer up another article soon to credit the extensions and point interested parties their way, as in our Under the Hood article from the spring.
• Most importantly,  we did some work on the eManagr internals.  You won”t see any changes to the interface, but some bottlenecks have been widened and things should be more efficient.  Slowdowns no more…we hope.

Here’s hoping everybody’s pleased with the rollout of the faster eManagr,  the blog gets back on schedule, and you’re all having holiday burgers instead of staring at a computer screen.

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