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It is always instructive to watch what a smart & successful company like General Electric* does and try to work out why they are doing it. Several years ago GE spun off their insurance businesses and this divestment was of interest to me at the time because GE was removing
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Here is a story for those among us who do not believe that software testing is critical, this is from New Scientist's Doh! Of Technology: Back to the future F-22 Raptors via Aide-mémoire
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Finally got an invite to Seesmic last night from Loic and, of course my webcam is not working on my desktop. This means I will have to use the Mac, which I generally only use on the road. It would seem very strange to use it here in my study.
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Techcrunch goes political with the US election, Michael Arrington explains: "TechCrunch wants to provide a voice for digital policy and technology issues in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, and so we've decided to hold our own political primaries online. Voting will be open from Tuesday, December
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I recently upgraded to Microsoft's Office 2007 and what a pleasant surprise it was! The upgrade process was really easy, the product itself has a really nice user interace, and it's easy to use. This is so much better than the previous versions, although I do
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I am reading Christopher Hitchen's Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography . Paine's writings were highly influential in creating the world we know today, where equality before the law and democracy are normal. I'm also dipping into the The Thomas Paine Reader
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Gmail has been crashing my Firefox since I upgraded to version 2.0.0.11 It is very annoying so I've started running IE7 again via Aide-mémoire
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During 2007 I have become a fan of Apple - just a Macbook and and Ipod nothing fancy. But they are sooooo easy to use, and sooooo stylish in design. According to this quiz: 81%How Addicted to Apple Are You? But I must note that I prefer to use
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In my house, somewhat to the consternation of various relatives, we have decided that we are not doing anything for Christmas or on Christmas day. This means no presents, no family get together, no shopping at the mall (except for basic foodstuffs). We are just going to stay home and
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Some nifty advice on how to work out if your son (not daughter though) is a hacker, Leo Laporte and Martin Sargent of TechTV discuss an article from Adequacy.org (it's an oldie but a goodie). via Aide-mémoire
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Thanks to Chris Brogan for this link. This is interesting - as mentioned I don't get pownce; but use jaiku and twitter. My preferences seem to match the stats: twitter, jakiu, pownce. The stats on number of people show a clear preference for twitter: twitter.com 469,914
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This is great commentary on some of the anti-One Laptop discussion recently. Harris makes some good points. I've seen on of these PCs and they are beautifully designed and engineered. Some people just don't get it. OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world by ZDNet&