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Of interest: FastCompany's Top 10 Web Sites You've Never Heard Of
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Guarded nearly as well as the passcode to the Microsoft home of the future , and the details of the Inquisition were released this week (not to be confused with The Spanish Inquisition of Monty Python fame )... here are The Top 10 Web Sites You've Never...
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Leap year programming questions
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I received two notes on this happy leap day that there was a problem someone was having in with accounting for leap years in their code. Both were quickly solved. The first was programming for a leap year that turned out to be a common problem. The programmer...
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Of interest: Communications and Autism
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Quick break between meetings... a link to this article in Wired this month, " The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know " By David Wolman 02.25.08 (excerpt below). "The YouTube clip opens with a woman facing away from the...
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Of interest: Forbes coverage of the Microsoft-Yahoo! saga
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Forbes offers the The Yahoo! Deal coverage on Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!. "Analysis in text and video by forbes editors and writers and industry experts: www.forbes.com/yahoodeal ."
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Is the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000 too much? It depends...
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Last year I posted an entry on how to choose the best computer which included an article by Mike Himowitz , columnist at the Baltimore Sun. Himowitz wrote the article " Sticker tells shopper key parts of a laptop " which covers "the specific components...
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Online search, ChaCha and customer service: there's always room for improvement and innovation
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In the article "The Future of Customer Service" on msnbc.com (from - Entrepreneur.com), writer Sarah Pierce looks at the impact of the Internet and now-ubiquitous mobile technology on consumer expectations of customer service. We've come a long way in...
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Zunes as seen by a child: "They're a type of iPod... just bigger"
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Out of the mouths of babes, or in this case our soon-to-be seven year old son. Over dinner I asked... CJ, what's a Zune? [he uses a 30GB model for music and videos] CJ: "Zune is a type of iPod, but it's bigger." How is the Zune different from the iPod...
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It's real: the Netflix survey to gauge interest in streaming movies via Xbox Live
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With all the talk this weekend of HD-DVD (as Reuters noted this weekend ) and that main supported Toshiba "will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment" (as reported on Japan's NHK public broadcasting network), interesting to see the increased interest in...
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Windows Vista SP1 Update now available to MSDN, TechNet subscribers, with download links
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As noted on the MSDN Subscriptions WebLog and TechNet Plus ... the Windows Vista SP1 update is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Proof that Microsoft does listen and respond. ;) MSDN ... We heard you. Look for it in the Top...
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PC Magazine: Phony e-card site serves up malware
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A quick note before lunch... per PCMAG today... there are a number of phony electronic cards being circulated this Valentine's day... Sunbelt Software is reporting a virulent and convincing fake greeting card site and associated malware . Like most malware...
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Llamas and other helpful options for Valentine's Day
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Admit it: you don't have a gift for that special someone tomorrow. (Hello... it's Valentine's Day. My gift for my wife was rescuing her from an awkward spot late today, with apologies to attendees at TechReady.) My old friend, Ben Calica, is working with...
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"You got to know when to hold 'em..." and what to fold into great customer service systems
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With a tip of the hat to Kenny Rogers 1979 hit , of interest is this article a friend shared with me this week, When to Walk Away from a Deal in the Harvard Business Review (below is a brief summary of the article on BNET.com) by Geoffrey Cullinan, Jean...
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Microsoft's Danger-ous purchase
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In the news today, one dangerous acquisition was approved: Microsoft is buying Danger . Robbie Bach announced the news in his keynote at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Spain. Full news release is included here on MSN Money Central ... Taking steps to place...
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New York Times: The paperless office at home. In the end, it's just more stuff.
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Hannah Fairfield of the New York Times reports today on the effect of a family going paperless . "Chris Uhlik's children can be found in their home computer lab almost every morning. Nicole is writing a story about her two lizards. Tony is playing...
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Friday Link: Fox's 10 Best Super Bowl commercials
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It's the return of my Friday Link faourite, a humourous URL of the week for Friday viewing. But on a Saturday. ;) Fox Sports lists their 10 favourite Super Bowl commercials. .. "Super Bowl XLII will go down in history as a classic — for the nail-biting...
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What I've read this week or so (through 020808)
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First off, let's just says that it's been a busy week, with several changes and shuffles during mid-year review , as Directions on Microsoft analyst Rob Helm noted on January 11. He said that "there's often a lot of churn between January and March." ...
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How long will it take to feed 25 million pages through an ADF? Live Search Books at the British Library
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And I thought that it was a chore to digitize our papers at home... that's nothing as compared to the effort to scan 25 million pages... Raissa Kasolowsky from Reuters reports here on one project associated with the Live Search Books effort . The article...
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