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Came across this today (hat tip: James King): "Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future. http://sas-origin.OnstreamMedia.com/origin/thesaplingfoundation/banners/CountdownClockBadge.swf In a world where people are often divided by borders,
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Now that Mick has done this splendid advert of course you want to come along to BarCamp Sydney #3! By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&
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Fully support this movement - words cannot explain how much pain cross browser testing for IE6 has caused me! By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&
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Went to an Earth Hour candlelight BBQ last night and ended up having one of those late night conversations about 'what is a geek?' and 'who is a geek?' I'd never really thought about it like that before & so have been pondering notions
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Just read a very interesting article on this research paper: "Dogs on the Street, Pumas on Your Feet: How Cues in the Environment Influence Product Evaluation and Choice," where Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger suggests that what you see in your everyday world can influence what you buy.
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The other side to my post the other day about global warming Gigantic Antarctic Ice Chunk Collapses By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&publisher=91b467b0-fcb3-4e42-95e0-1f04ad0c9be9
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Krigsman over at ZDNet asked this very interesting question. I reckon that IT is diverging into two separate streams - firstly mission critical systems, that must be highly reliable and resilient. Secondly non-critical systems that are being democratised. I don't think any of us want to use medical
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New Twitter app: Botanicalls, where your plants tweet to let you know how they are doing. As it says on the website: "Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What's up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach
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General Colin Powell is a leader that I admire. I ran across this list in my travels and thought it worth sharing. Lesson 1: "Good leaders sometimes make people unhappy." Lesson 2: "The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading
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I was listening to the ABC Radio on the way home the other night and heard a conversation between Counterpoint's Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Now many think that the IPA is a neo-con
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So nothing appears to have changed - we continue to hear the rhetoric of talent wars and continue to see the demonstrable lack of interest or investment in the 'talent' that is already there. Blame CIOs for the IT Skills Shortage We can't hire enough "
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This quote seems appropriate given the day .. Source: "Ain't I A Woman?", by Sojourner Truth, Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%