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Pandora is Charging So Consider Aluratec Internet Radio
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 13, 2009
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If you didn't hear, last week Pandora struck a deal with the recording industry that is a sort of win/win. The recording industry is going to be paid a royalty for songs played, and Pandora ...
Heidi Daus Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on July 10, 2009
...is in a class by herself and there is simply no one left that is willing to make this sort of complex costume and semiprecious jewelry ....
What recession? Small arms trade is booming
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
...her small arms. In this economic climate, there are few industries that would have enjoyed the same sort of growth....
Google releases an OS after all
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2009
... this case.
At least half the posts I've read on this go on about how it's a swing of some sort at Microsoft, which is pretty much the same thing that happened when Chrome itself was released...
Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
...to help you reduce your mortgage payments, hang up the phone. It's surely a scam artist of some sort. And even if the caller isn't doing anything illegal, you can bet that he or she won't ...
Facebook for fogeys
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
Is Facebook in danger of losing its coolness? A new study compiled by compiled by iStrategyLabs, and reported here , has found that the 55 and older crowd is poised to overtake high schoolers and younger as the biggest users of Facebook. As PCWorld's Jared Newman points out, Facebook's...
Can YouTube survive?
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
How much money is YouTube losing? How much is it costing Google? That's been one of the fascinating questions doing the rounds for some time. And it's anyone's guess. Rhodri Marsden at The Independent suggests YouTube's future is not looking that flash. "YouTube's la...
Can the G8 solve climate change?
in Sox First, on July 6, 2009
... to getting some agreement on fighting climate change so what hope is there of the G8 reaching some sort of agreement. As the Carbon Positive newsletter suggests, there is still a standoff in negot...
Why Do We Get Hangovers (and What to Do About It)
in Celebrate Wine, on July 5, 2009
...ple I spend a little time wondering WHY it happens...
Douglas Green has a good explanation available for why hangovers happen. The biggest culprit? A toxin called congeners . What to do? Do...
The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...mixed opinions on them, generally; I think it's valuable and important to have relevant metrics available as close to real-time as possible, available as broadly as possible, and in as plain and u...
E-mail traffic analysis reveals disruptions
in The CIO Weblog, on June 23, 2009
...As a n00b system administrator in a variety of organizations coming up through the ranks I saw this sort of behavior manifest around business deals, mergers, and client catastrophes. It's an open ...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... it's work. Speaking to Reuters , CIA spokesman Ron Patrick concedes it takes a different sort of mindset. "Typically the people that come to the CIA want to serve the government, they ...
LG starts the 3D bandwagon
in The Digital TV Weblog, on June 18, 2009
3D TV has always been one of those things which has been set to catch on "this year" or "next year", but it seems that LG are really about to start the push toward it becoming mainstream with the 47 inch LH50. Of course, it still requires funny little glasses...but LG seem t...
FIA 公布 2010 年 F1 参赛名单
in Wangtam, on June 14, 2009
...me: Facebook to sort of bring back the old site design
• New study shows iPhone users to be in a class by themselves
• China's Computer Folly
• Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell M...
Book: Fluorishing with Food Allergies
in Allergies, on June 11, 2009
I have to admit, I've stopped buying books on food allergies. My son has outgrown all but his peanut and tree nut allergies and my second-born does not seem to have any at all (we haven't tried nuts so far, though). But if you're a parent of a child that has just been diagnosed with ...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 7, 2009
...% of blacks. American might have elected a black president but the country has a long way to go to sort out its racial issues. The subprime crisis is a mirror that reflects the deep-seated problem of...
Reality TV, French style
in Sox First, on June 5, 2009
...TV station says this will ruin reality TV in France. But what's more interested is whether that sort of ruling would be taken up in other countries. Or is it just a French thing?...
Mommy has a grandma too?
in Noah's and Lily's Blog, on May 22, 2009
So it turns out even our 'oldish' parents have grandma's. Jeez everyday we learn something new here.
To impress here we bought new clothes and put our smiles on.
Well - I think it worked out fine!
Your Noah
Geomate Jr GPS Is One Way to Get Kids To Play Outside
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 21, 2009
... you and your family can get out and start treasure hunting out-of-the-box.
The Geomate.jr will be available this summer. There is no word on pricing yet, but I would be shocked if the thing was over... ...tch a kid's eye. It features a monochrome LCD screen, but it is not backlit; after all, it is a sort of technical toy. The Geomate.jr is not a traditional GPS, your kid won't be able to cruise...
How to introduce a carbon tax
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...e to fall to keep it revenue neutral. And because it is regressive, he says, there needs to be some sort of rebate for low income earners. But he warns that a carbon tax might only be one of many tax...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
... are worth the transition. Will you handcuff your organization to Windows simply because it's available? Or do you see the possibilities on the horizon, with the rapid expansion of utility compu...
More bad news: Housing foreclosure activity remains at record levels
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 14, 2009
... RealtyTrac reported that one in every 374 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing of some sort in April. That's the highest monthly foreclosure rate that RealtyTrac has reported since it...
Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...to the report, much of the impact will be felt in developing countries that don't have the same sort of health infrastructure as the developed world. There will be an increase in insect-borne dise...
Jelly Gladiator Sandals auf dem heißen Asphalt?
in Das Schuh-Fashion-Blog, on May 11, 2009
© iStyleThis
Für gerade mal umgerechnete 11,70 Euro könnte ich diese ASOS Jelly Gladiator Sandals erstehen. Wäre genau das Richtige für den anstehenden Urlaub am Meer. Hier stimmt auch die Belüftung, was bei manch anderen Schuhen aus Plastik öfter mal zum Problem werden könnte. Der hier kan...
Jelly Gladiator Sandals auf dem heißen Asphalt?
in Das Schuh-Fashion-Blog, on May 11, 2009
© iStyleThis
Für gerade mal umgerechnete 11,70 Euro könnte ich diese ASOS Jelly Gladiator Sandals erstehen. Wäre genau das Richtige für den anstehenden Urlaub am Meer. Hier stimmt auch die Belüftung, was bei manch anderen Schuhen aus Plastik öfter mal zum Problem werden könnte. Der hier kan...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...ployees who are demanding higher wages rather than pay up; such has been a historic reaction to any sort of worker or wage protection efforts. On the other hand, it's difficult not to see the very...
Microsoft's prospects
in The CIO Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...ability to tie those diverse products together somehow into a mutually reinforcing monopoly of some sort. I believe they have the vision to achieve that again; if they can't muster the execution, ...
Squarespace as a Situational App programming model
in The CIO Weblog, on May 4, 2009
... discussions on the LinkedIn Situation Applications group revolve around the inadequacy of toolsets available to the end user to build these applications. Most CIOs have a backlog of development reque... ...y implemented; it's just a matter of finding the module and putting it where you want it.
This sort of front-end is exactly what is needed in the situational application market. It builds off of ...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...for example, the view that property prices will continue to rise because there is only so much land available. While economists like to depict markets as efficient and investors as rational calculato... ...ill be return to bridge with this recession. But what's really needed, the authors say, is some sort of system that harnesses these animal drivers without creating bubbles and without selling them...
H.P. Labs Pulls Out the Measuring Stick
in Wangtam, on May 1, 2009
...dle Personal Documents
• Web tool 'as important as Google'
• Newsfeed RSS
• Utilization: Maintaining The Right Credit Balance to Limit Ratio ... ... 7 Release Candidate Is Available From Microsoft
• Amazon starts charging by the megabyte
• Finally: Disney, Hulu Deal Announced
• Kindle Personal Documents
• Web tool 'as important as Goo...
The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
...you didn't care about dying and were insane. Leeson says pirates today don't have the same sort of system. For a start, they spend very little time together at sea and they are often contract...
Pandemic preparation in the IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...nauthorized people in the building, sure, but you'll also have your critical staff on hand and available where otherwise they might be inclined to avoid work altogether. Bonuses or other guarantee... ...der-reaction. Still, it's a healthy reminder for CIOs that electronic viruses are not the only sort which can lay operations low... for all the automation in today's IT environment, it's s...
Can Ztail reinvigorate Online Shopping?
in Bizinformer, on April 23, 2009
...I'd usually look for a more techie sort of forum to discuss a company like this, but the Ztail business model is what I found intriguing about this article.
Ztail is a relatively new company ...
Back door bank nationalisation
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
...it's a political minefield as there are potential conflicts of interest. Treasury would have to sort out the problem of looking after the broader economic interests while maximizing the value of t...
12 brands that will die
in Sox First, on April 18, 2009
...e, debt levels and competition. It's hard to fault and makes fascinating reading, in a gruesome sort of way. If the forecasts are right, there will be many casualties before the recovery comes an...
10 secrets of the downturn leader
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
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What are the secrets of the downturn leader? What sort of strategies are needed during a recession. I identify 10 of them in my piece here . The 10 secrets are communication, keeping up staf...
Sanyo Introduces HD Waterproof Video Camera
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...ablization and face recoginition. All in all, they seem like a pretty rugged and complete package.
Available now, both the VPC-WH1BL and VPC-WH1YL will cost you $399. If you order soon, you can have ... ...our video camera in the ocean while I am slaving away behind my desk. If you are worried about this sort of technological nightmare happening to you, then you might want to consider the Sanyo VPC-WH1Y...
Deluxe...
in WebKinzBlog, on April 5, 2009
...ve of our accounts. I'll post stuff from it just as soon as I get a chance... some aspects seem sort of silly, like changing colors of dock stuff but I figure the bonus gifts and estore points eac...
Yet Another Amazon Web Service
in The CIO Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...ir larger competitors.
Forward thinking users who already saw the potential of EC2 to service this sort of large-scale processing had been running Hadoop on privately rented instances already, but th...
A service pack milestone
in The CIO Weblog, on March 27, 2009
...t processing on the desktop still? It's a serious question; I'm terrible at predicting this sort of thing, I either underestimate adoption rates or overestimate organizations abilities to make...
Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009
...ng difficulty. One may apply the idea of companies like Zopa to Africa...The idea is to create some sort of communal hedge fund and allow community members to submit ideas that the community gets to a...
Cisco's Unified Computing System
in The CIO Weblog, on March 20, 2009
...y.
The project represents Cisco's first entry into the datacenter server market. The device is sort of a downsized version of the shipping container data centers that were all the rage for a whil...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
...ll running in the car park, they brought their kids to pick the shelves clean. The report says this sort of thing has happened at two other places in Israel. The question is whether this is a sign of...
Too Many Choices...
in The Dating Weblog, on March 19, 2009
...at actually match what you're looking for. The simple fact is that the more stuff you have to sort through, the more difficult it become for your brain to decide what's relevant.
Of course,...
Systems and the AIG catastrophe
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
...IG seems to be) then in fact it's just "salary" albeit salary structured in a certain sort of way.
Still, whether it was legally prudent to withhold that chunk of money from those peopl...
CIO Weblog now powered by Amazon
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
Just a quick note; this is my first post since the change over yesterday of the CIO Weblog to run using Amazon's EC2 and S3 systems on the back-end. I can feel it running faster already!
The blog remains unaffiliated with Amazon despite my occasional cheerleading; in fact, if it blows up, ...
The seven deadly sins of executive pay
in Sox First, on March 18, 2009
...en parachutes" and issuing share options that can only be cashed out after five years. In this sort of environment, it's a package that's likely to be considered by politicians. Meanwhil...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...g IT workers have a leg up on the new generation of graduates in fighting for the limited positions available, for reasons better articulated here by Larry Dignan. In short, most of them know how to... ...ple in the industry, there isn't much acceptance yet of the tremendous cultural shift that this sort of technology represents. The IT department is still seen as a bastion of sorts (the "sole...
Try The Orbitz Travel Blog For Digital Photo Help
in Digital Shot, on March 16, 2009
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You never can tell what sort of useful information you'll run into on the Internet while searching for something else.
It seems that, "Orbitz", the well known travel site, offers di...
Hacking as a Service
in The CIO Weblog, on March 13, 2009
... as an outsourced service.
I suppose in some senses most crime is a service-oriented business of a sort. The problem with cybercrime in that respect is that service businesses require a certain level...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...o result in a major shake-up at the SEC. Let's just see. The kind of culture that produced that sort of neglect will be hard to change.
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Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...larly at a time like this when scientists are meeting in Copenhagen to lay the foundations for some sort of global accord on the climate crisis. Economist Nicholas Stern has warned that the effects ...
Depression
in WebKinzBlog, on March 10, 2009
...;t playing with a pet, they are still 'alive' and get hungry and bored. I'm sorry, that sort of irks me since this is a game for fun and enjoyment, not to be obsessed over. But Webkinz tol...
Our Favorite Volvo Takes to the Road in Palm Springs
in Classical Drives, on March 9, 2009
...ed from the P1800 coupe, described in an ad by the Carl Ally ad agency thusly: "It's a sort of souped-down Ferrari." It was never sold as a pure sports car but instead was positioned...
超过 80 款 Delicious 工具与资源
in Wangtam, on March 8, 2009
【Blog Widgets 和工具】
del.icio.us custom size
del.icio.us linkrolls
Del.icio.us Search
del.icio.us Spy
Delicious Preview
Popular Bookmarks on Delicious
Share on Del.icio.us
【官方工具】
Blog Posting
"Bookmark this on Delicious" buttons
Bookmarklet buttons for any browser
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The complex reality of end-user application development
in The CIO Weblog, on March 6, 2009
...er might have been in the past.
There is a lesson here for CIOs, which represents another cyclical sort of realization: don't let your users get ahead of you on the technology curve. There are go...
Counterpoint: Employers snoop away!
in The CIO Weblog, on March 4, 2009
...y at work after you hire them.
The idea that all the information necessary to judge a candidate is available during the job interview process (which is Levinson's answer to this issue) is naive a... ...ay were these questions presented directly in an interview room.
It's certainly true that this sort of screening doesn't unearth people who engage in these activities, but don't post abou...
Opmanager online
in The CIO Weblog, on March 2, 2009
...ageEngine by Adventnet (better known in most circles for their Zoho SaaS platform) is now partly available as a service, at least in beta form.
Beginning with OpManager, the component which monit... ... lower yet: $5 per monitored node per month. Considering the amount of background traffic that this sort of monitoring requires, that has to make for some razor thin margins. It also has implicati...
Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?
in The CIO Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...heets and the modern enterprise mash-up.
I think the resulting "virtual conversation" (a sort of mashup of its own) is probably worth further exploration and deserves a broader audience so ...
LG 15" OLED TV shipping from this summer!
in The Digital TV Weblog, on February 25, 2009
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While Sony sort of have thier tiny oled TV available, LG are the first to come through with real, solid plans about how the future of TV is going to roll. With Pioneer bowing out of the biz, ... ...
While Sony sort of have thier tiny oled TV available, LG are the first to come through with real, solid plans about how the future of TV is going to roll. With Pioneer bowing out of the biz, ...
Further failures cast cloud into question
in The CIO Weblog, on February 24, 2009
...is following the general pattern of utility computing provider failures so far in that it is making available all customer data and providing free service and support through the termination date, but... ...realize that value again.
A lot of people have been calling for portable standards to prevent this sort of dead-end for customers of failed SaaS/PaaS providers. It sounds like a grand idea but I'...
Searching the Deep Enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on February 23, 2009
...to catalog its contents. It's been broadly realized for some time that large chunks of the data available on the Internet are "hidden" from conventional search indexing in databases and ... ...et are "hidden" from conventional search indexing in databases and data files without any sort of standardized interface format.
This is a bummer for consumers and casual web surfers, of co...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...ry level of information technology. Zoom your telescope in or out a bit and you'll see the same sort of cycling of concepts in such specific areas as programming languages or database modeling. No...
Google Docs enhanced for mobile users
in The Smart PDA, on February 17, 2009
...obile users as Google has updated its Google Docs online App. to support document viewing, editing, sorting, filtering and much more. Initially mobile users only had access to view their online docume...
More on the Amazon/IBM deal
in The CIO Weblog, on February 13, 2009
...gree with his conclusion (as I've said, I think the fence-sitting plays are losing bets in this sort of transition) but the course he charts to get there takes us through territory that no one els...
IBM provides EC2 versions of server software
in The CIO Weblog, on February 12, 2009
...ir local and cloud-based resources under one coherent management umbrella.
Instances are currently available for free for testing and development purposes, and production images will be launched in b... ...lure in those efforts already (although the game is hardly over). IBM may be able to vault over the sort of problems that Microsoft and others will experience in attempting to transition their culture...
Dashboard Madness
in The CIO Weblog, on February 11, 2009
...tools. CIOs are quite familiar with this user-driven techno-lust, which is just as insidious as the sort which frequently occurs within the IT department itself. Who hasn't spent hundreds of waste...
Geithner's vague debut
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
...t there just isn't enough detail. The plan is to to purchase toxic mortgage assets through some sort of vague public-partnership, but no-one yet knows exactly how that will work. Nor do we know wh...
Verismo's VuNow
in The Digital TV Weblog, on February 10, 2009
...VuNow, which will pull content off various web sources and play it back on your screen, without any sort of hassle.
It seems a good idea, but where is the content coming from? Youtube? Amatures? I ju...
More on complication
in The CIO Weblog, on February 9, 2009
...ich were implemented around the same time, so I suppose it's not really simplification of the sort I was referring to, but just one of those odd and inexplicable shufflings of features which hap...
