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Andrew McAfee discusses Enterprise 2.0
in The CIO Weblog, on November 24, 2009
...t Web 2.0 in the enterprise. In the debate between top-down versus bottom-up implementations, he strikes a nice middle ground that better reflects the realities of using Web 2.0. Without some effort...
Detroit struggles to bury its dead
in Sox First, on November 22, 2009
... so bad in Detroit now that the city has been forced to turn to a charity to bury its dead. The tragedy of Detroit is that it symbolizes the collapse of the American Dream and University of Michig...
Seen that? - Hope for Africa?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 10, 2009
...an Tour released its 2009 schedule today under the heading "First courses revealed". This strikes me as a little odd since the schedule also indicates that no less than 7 of the events are c...
Review Roundup: Ubuntu 9.10
in HackITLinux, on October 31, 2009
...addition to Ubuntu and a good reason to upgrade. Another thing I liked was the login manager, which strikes me as more attractive and functional than the one I remember using before."
"F...
Probably no wolves for Ballmer
in The CIO Weblog, on October 30, 2009
...ly refers to Ballmer as Fester, perhaps diminishing his journalistic objectivity somewhat) but it strikes me that, no matter how accurate the article or astute the observations, your credibility is ...
Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
...se by enshrining government intervention in the market. And the problem is that when the disaster strikes again, people will turn against the market. As British economist John Kay writes , it's imp...
Seen that? - Intel Capital Makes Swift Investments Post-Alibaba Deal
in China Venture News, on October 24, 2009
...ead investor in some cases. Intel's first fund invested in 28 [...] Read More EMC strikes global OEM deal with Intel at On Storage EMC s...
Seen that? - Cyndi Violette and David Williams on Joe Average Poker Show
in Internet Poker, on October 22, 2009
... car combat game, he said, "Why would you [...] Read More The Absurd David Jaffe Strikes Again at House of Nintendo Image created for H...
Seen that? - HALLE BERRY'S TOYS
in The Celebrities Weblog, on October 21, 2009
...her level of pulchritude. Well it seems that she's into toys, of the sex variety, when the mood strikes her. She urges people to experiment, try different things, and to "not forget one's...
Lie To Me Season 2 : Ep. 3 - Control Factor
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-17
...trikes SMS Deal With Largest Indian Carrier
• Acer Android smartphone hands-on!
• Is Steve Jobs more popular than Jesus?
• Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux
• Homemade...
FTC Steps in to Regulate Bloggers
in Web 2.0, on October 12, 2009
...est of the media industry and advertising world labors under the same rules. This strikes me as government telling me that, well, I've arrived. And if I'm going to play on the same field as TV and new...
《钢琴师》导演在瑞士被捕
in YuleGuan, on 2009-09-30
瑞士苏黎世电影节的组委会宣布大导演罗曼·波兰斯基(Roman Polanski)因美国发出的为期31年的通缉令而被逮捕。
组委会表示，波兰斯基在周六被瑞士警方逮捕，苏黎世警方目前还没有确认这一消息。电影节主办方在周日(27日)的一份声明中表示波兰斯基到瑞士来是为了接受电影节为他颁发的导演终生成就奖。他们表示他是因美国在1978年发布，针对的1977年猥亵13岁女童案而被逮捕。
罗曼·波兰斯基1977年与当年只有13岁的萨曼塔发生性关系，犯下轰动一时的性骚扰女童案，1978年，波兰斯基因此避走法国。根据美国的法令，罗曼·波兰斯基若踏进美国大门，会立即送往监狱，因此他不但多年没再返美...
Banker lived it up on foreclosure
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...d used the bank-owned property as her personal playground and what's more, she cashed in on the tragedy of people who had lost everything to Madoff. Significantly, the bank refused to talk to the ...
Release Date Being Announced at Final Fantasy XIII Premiere Party?
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-30
...en malware protection
• Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin Support CC with $500,000 Gift
• Elance | Hire experts to do your work: outsource to companies, consultants and freelance professionals.
• Ne...
Spooks and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...en our allies are focused on domestic economic concerns - from recession to rising unemployment, to strikes and riots - they are less able and willing to co-operate with us on other top priority issue...
Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009
... pay that mortgage down.
It makes sense to pay off that mortgage if possible. What if an emergency strikes after you've retired? Wouldn't you like to be free from the burden of that monthly m...
Russo and Steele Strikes Gold With Dr. Porsche's 356B
in Classical Drives, on July 31, 2009
Forgive me if I get carried away with enthusiasm for the Porsche 356B. This was the first Porsche I drove, the first owned, the first raced. The very icon of what a Porsche should be. Russo and Steele have captured a very special 356B for its Monterey Auction, Aug 13-15 at the Downtown Marrio...
Karoo vs. P2P
in P2P File Sharing, on July 27, 2009
© functoruser
UK-based ISP Karoo was recently forced to change its longstanding policy of immediately cutting off anyone who was accused of filesharing, without warning...
"It was forced to relax its stance after growing criticism from digital rights groups and customers," writ...
Can news be saved?
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
...ignorance is as embarrassing as it is seemingly sincere. Indeed, the very phrase citizen journalist strikes my ear as nearly Orwellian. A neighbor who is a good listener and cares about people is a go...
Is Sony Really Flirting With PSP Phone
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 29, 2009
... if Sony cannot afford new development on the system because of some silly PSP Phone, it would be a tragedy.
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Social entrepreneurship in China
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 23, 2009
...rnaut of growth. One example is related to the recent earthquake that ravaged Sichuan Province. The tragedy unleashed a huge wave of volunteers in China as tens of thousands of people donated time and...
3 Strikes is in for France
in Digital Music - The Future, on May 14, 2009
...It's sad to have to post this but the "3 strikes and your out" copyright law in France has come into play. It's a seriously idiotic piece of legislation that brings copyright infring...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
... © Marek Peters
So, speaking of revolutions , it strikes me that this one isn't being evangelized very well. Nick Carr has turtled, turning off blog comments and going largely off the radar ...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...egy, and both are among the techniques that I would recommend exploring. But the mindset as a whole strikes me as reactionary and defensive. I'm sure that's conventional wisdom in circumstance...
Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-04
...• Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
• Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app
• SKOUT - Matches | location-based mobile dating
• Glearch: 3x the global search
• Malari...
Taiwan Approves Three-Strikes Law
in P2P File Sharing, on April 30, 2009
..." writes Billboard's Thibault Worth . "In addition, the law introduces a 'three-strikes' provision whereby ISPs can restrict the Internet access of users who download copyrighte...
GM Drops Pontiac, Journalists Miss the Point
in carzz.org, on April 29, 2009
... that here was a Pontiac to be reckoned with.
What happened to Pontiac in contemporary times was a tragedy forced upon it by, yes, more marketing "experts." The Aztec, possibly the ugliest ...
ACTU Issues Warning About Nanomaterials
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 18, 2009
...bres, governments and business must not repeat the painful lessons of the past and allow another tragedy to occur again," says ACTU assistant secretary Geoff Fary. "Existing laws and regulat...
Fake Accounting Standards Board strikes again
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
As if last week's ruling the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which I have renamed the Fake Accounting Standards Board, wasn't bad enough. The FASB has ruled that companies can use their own judgement in assessing what an asset's worth under fair value, which in effect me...
Saving precious lives is what RFID intends to achieve
in The RFID Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...d.
Once implemented this system would ensure that no precious lives are lost in case any disaster strikes as this system is expected to offer precision of a higher level. It has already been tested s...
Millionaires and fake prosperity
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
...isleading. The so-called prosperity was just an illusion created by the financial bubble. This is a tragedy that's not about the rich losing money....
Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?
in The CIO Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...r, apparently similar technologies, so I want to be careful using the Excel comparison here. But it strikes me that it may be more apt in this context than where Mike originally applied it: both busin...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 20, 2009
...mingly, to downplay and to conceal. That is a path to turning a painful debacle into a decades-long tragedy." ...
Gaps In the Schedule
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 28, 2009
...n Tour released its 2009 schedule today under the heading "First courses revealed".
This strikes me as a little odd since the schedule also indicates that no less than 7 of the events are c...
Security is just broken
in The CIO Weblog, on January 15, 2009
...r CEO's laptop is compromised?"
I'm not sure yet what the answer to that is, but it strikes me that it probably revolves heavily around virtualization, centralized control (rather than...
Range Finders - Threat to the Game?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 14, 2009
...o use such devices) but an advantage over the game.
Call me old-fashioned or conservative but golf strikes me as a game with two main elements. First, you must strike the ball and send it in the dire...
Apple to Introduce Media Server at Macworld?
in On Storage, on January 3, 2009
...e media junkies who demand regular fixes of audio, video, and images wherever and whenever the need strikes. A media server allows access to personal files stored on it - or stored in the proverbial c...
Suicide Bomber Strikes In Iran
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 29, 2008
Attacks by suicide bombers are a common occurrence in Iraq and Israel as well as most other countries in the Mid-East.
That is, except for Iraq, where a suicide bombing is rarer than an American flag.
But, with the region being a powder keg in the midst of dozens of oppositional political and reli...
Three strikes
in WebKinzBlog, on December 14, 2008
We were excited to see a Wheel of Wishes spin today but the outcome certainly was a bummer for us! We only got to spin in three of our accounts and we didn't win a Wish Token in any of the three - we got a Mohawk, Air Hockey Table and $210 cash.
Must be one of those days where good luck wasn...
The Mumbai Tragedy
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on December 1, 2008
... prayers go out to their families and associates at this time of sorrow. We can only hope that this tragedy, when combined with the economic and political difficulties faced by the world, has only a m...
The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...problem as a one-act play, soon to end, it could in fact be but the first act of a long and complex tragedy." Shiller, one of the founders of the behavioral finance school of economics, argues t...
More woes for India-based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 26, 2008
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Not to minimize the very real human tragedy and other geo-political implications of the terror attacks currently paralyzing the Indian city of Mumbai, but the first technology related thought to c...
CTO of the United States
in The CIO Weblog, on November 8, 2008
...though there are probably some successes to be had in unifying and systematizing government IT, it strikes me that this may be one of those situations where the goals of government and the processes f...
Mixed messages on the economy
in The CIO Weblog, on October 3, 2008
...soft denied the report , while confirming that it is "reviewing" its hiring plans, which strikes me as being a more politic way of conveying the same information.
I think it's a pruden...
The Lunacy of Sports Writers
in End Zone Buzz, on September 30, 2008
... the end of May. He's not even leading the league anymore in that category."
Huh? Howard strikes out 199 times - tying himself for the second-highest single season total in the more than 100...
Closing the GAAP
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
...on and Marie Leone suggest it might end a lot sooner. Like from next year. One of the issues that strikes me is whether there are enough skills for the take-up, although six years should give accoun...
Bootstrapper's hall of fame: Bra strap bootstrap
in BootStrapMe, on August 24, 2008
...could be marketed to create the resources she needed to accomplish her goal.
• Inspiration strikes. The answer came in the form of handmade beaded straps used for bras, tanktops, dresses or linge...
Jabra SP700 Bluetooth Speakerphone Bugs Your Desk and Car
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...hitting the streets soon, and while it is billed as an "orbital" or space-aged design, it strikes me a bit more insect-like. In fact, it looks a lot like there is a dead bug sitting on the d...
Calm down: Gamestop's Girls Night In Page Not As Bad as Some Think
in House of Nintendo, on August 12, 2008
..."the team with the cutest quarterback," there just isn't a whole lot on the site that strikes me as so horrible.
So what if it has recipes for a Madden Party? Wouldn't a page about...
MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name
in The CIO Weblog, on August 7, 2008
I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the fact that something as prosaic as a configuration management database product was jumping o...
RFID Taser Bracelets: The anti-hijacking device
in The RFID Weblog, on August 7, 2008
...sengers and their luggage.
Some may feel it as a trouble but if you go back and remember the 9/11 tragedy you would certainly say a yes to it.
...
WiFi in Mexico
in Latina Viva, on August 6, 2008
... email. It lets emails be received, but there are restrictions and issues with sending.
So three strikes and I'm done. I'll just buy a multifon card at the airport....
Persystent imaging and repair
in The CIO Weblog, on July 31, 2008
...y sticks by it. While I am not going to accuse Microsoft of any prodigious feats of engineering, it strikes me that the initial installation of all that software takes hours. Simply copying the releva...
Cloud computing: getting what you paid for
in The CIO Weblog, on July 29, 2008
...r under average load for one month, then sliced accordingly). It's an interesting idea, but it strikes me that what works well for Mosso may not as accurately represent the loading and structure o...
The iPhone 3G: You Really Expected a Smooth Launch?
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 12, 2008
...nown for being customer oriented and for its technical excellence."
Spring's declaration strikes me as a bit melodramatic - I've been very much looking forward to getting a new iPhone, ...
China's Business Confidence Index - Up and Down
in China Venture News, on July 9, 2008
...rs just released in China .
I haven't paid much attention to China's BCI before now. It strikes me as something like trying to take the temperature of a small fire. China's economy is ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 31
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woke up with a few."
Buffett again strikes the theme that Berkshire prefers established businesses:
In the strange world department, n...
The future of eXpresso
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...t, for years to come. Although that's undoubtedly the case for most users simply by default, it strikes me that the open document format wars may catch eXpresso in the cross-fire. Although the com...
Castlevania Fighting Game For Wii Problematic
in House of Nintendo, on June 29, 2008
...i Castlevania game was announced (Castlevania Judgement). Fans rejoiced.
But not so fast.
Two new strikes have this game hampered from the start. First, it's a fighting game. A FIGHTING game. Ca...
Who should run software companies?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2008
...how to answer half the pop-ups it throws at her.
I respect Gates' intellectual prowess, but it strikes me that a non-programmer more attuned to the consumer's sensibilities and capabilities m...
Why won't this thing just die?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 24, 2008
...t is possible that simply the ongoing discussions are having a negative effect even if the ultimate tragedy that would be a culmination of the deal never does. Certainly it isn't helping Microsoft...
Government puts "gun to the head" of British ISPs
in Digital Music - The Future, on June 24, 2008
...supposed to stop pirated content being shared?
Perhaps they are thinking of going the "three strikes and your out" way the french have recently gone to attept to combat piracy?...
Go Nude
in Are you a beauty?, on June 23, 2008
... greasy or they don't moisturize the delicate eye are enough. NUDE's Advanced Eye Complex strikes a perfect balance, thankfully.
This chicly packaged eco-friendly eye cream is formulated wi...
Free Online Digital Photography Course And Photo Critique
in Digital Shot, on June 22, 2008
... fan that enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience but still considers herself a beginner.
This strikes me as a good place for noobies, and not so noobies, to exchange ideas and get a feeling for ...
Saturday Link Love: Best of the Outdoor Blog
in The Outdoor Weblog, on June 14, 2008
...e hiking in, it's best to know what types of weather you might encounter. Check out Mt. Rainer Tragedy Reminds Us To Be Prepared (especially helpful is the section on being caught in a lightning...
The Great Hardware debate
in The CIO Weblog, on June 10, 2008
...pecialized approach can address some of the common problems found with commodity hardware, but that strikes me as being beside the point. It's not as if any of this stuff started off as a commodit...
RIM Strikes Back with BlackBerry Thunder
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 9, 2008
Rumors surrounding the 3G iPhone are swirling, but RIM isn't scared. Research In Motion is on the verge of releasing their own touchscreen wonder-phone. While details on the gorgeous hardware are slim, the geniuses over at The Boy Genius Report have live pictures and a few hints; BlackBer...
微软官方发布 2007 年 Windows XP/Vista 安全报告
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-24
微软官方发布 2007 年 Windows XP/Vista 安全报告
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Virtualization - Before Disaster Strikes
in On Storage, on May 22, 2008
© e-strategyblog.com
What would you do if you knew a major catastrophe was on its way and threatened to totally destroy your data center?
I venture to say you really couldn't do anything today except maybe unplug everything and hope for the best. But if you had time to plan, what would yo...
Cool Pet: World's Smallest Dog
in Cool Picking, on May 11, 2008
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This dog, named Dancer, only reaches four inches in height, but what really strikes me is his incredible little bark. This dog, which recently became inducted as the smallest in the world, was ...
