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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Developers and Administrators under the age of thirty have no idea why old farts like me are sceptical of the productivity claims, why we roll our eyes at the hype and buzzwords that sell books and consulting engagements, about the amzing new programming language / technique / methodology du jour. Occassionally, it’s because we’ve [...]
Cluetrain manifesto
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006The entire text of The Cluetrain Manifesto is now available online.
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Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Monday, October 16th, 2006Heroic leaders are a disaster. Seventy per cent of mergers fail. In most organisations, financial incentives cause more problems than they solve. There is no connection between high executive pay and company performance (well, there is – the wider the pay differentials, the lower the commitment of the less well paid). The main result of [...]
Top 10 Lies told to the Naive
Thursday, October 5th, 2006For freelancers / contractors, in the end, working commercially, being a terrific artist, designer or technician is about half the task. The other half is “the business”, chasing work, chasing money, chasing client commitment, keeping up to date ….. Sure, you can outsource some of that to an agency, but then you have [...]
Ten Business Myths
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006Venture capitalist Ron Garret has posted a list of eleven (despite the title) common mistakes entrepreneurs with a technology background make. A common theme is that good ideas sell; in reality, what a customer wants sells. By extension, having a Ph.D. and holding a patent are not particularly helpful if the intended end-user does not [...]
Blogging from Space
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Anousheh Ansari Space Blog
This is the a blog by / on behalf of the first woman space tourist to head into space. According to this BBC article, “Ms Ansari says she will write the first blog from space.”
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“Security Engineering” Is Now Online
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006Ross Anderson, author of ‘Security Engineering’, notifies in a message to comp.risks that he just got permission from Wiley to let anyone download the full content of his book for free. This is one of the best books on computer security and it is used as textbook in many University courses .
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Free Language Courses » FSI Language Courses
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Free Language Courses » FSI Language Courses
The United States Government’s Foreign Service Institute has created a website offering eleven different language courses for free. Languages included are: Cantonese, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.
All courses consist of audio and text lessons divided into chapters and those are divided further into courses like [...]
Long Tan 18 August 1966
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006From kevgillett.net
It is a myth that the Free World Military Forces lost the Vietnam War. Called the American War by the Vietnamese the Communists lost at Tet 68 when they had their arses handed back to them on a plate. The South Vietnamese rebellion that the North had banked their money on didn’t eventuate and [...]
Ebay bans Google Checkout
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Ebay bans Google Checkout » gHacks tech news
Ebay changed its Safe Policy this week adding Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay. Take a look at their updated policy to see for yourself that Google Checkout is among the payment services that are not accepted by Ebay.
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Civil disobedience
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006Crank up something nice and loud (Sammy Hagar, perhaps) and check this out.
Winter Olympics gallery
Friday, February 24th, 2006An astonishing Winter Olympics photo gallery .
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