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Yesterday morning the hard disk on my desktop machine gave up the ghost. Kaput. I re-formatted the drive, reloaded Win XP, and am ready to build a new computing environment. Then the error recurred. I’ll have to figure this out when I return from ten days on the road. In the meanwhile, I’ll live off my laptop. And modem instead of DSL. And no printer.
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Watch out! The phishermen are turning out slicker looking notices in hopes of stealing account numbers and passwords. This one sure looks official! Continue reading
Yesterday evening I attended Future Salon, a monthly get-together to “explore accelerated change in science, technology, business & society.”
Zack Rosen is extending the wisdom he gained in the techno trenches of Howard Dean’s campaign to build a toolset for building communities, CivicSpace Labs. I won’t waste the bits recounting Zack’s presentation because someone else beat me to it.
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Marc Prensky has a great article in Strategy + Business on why oldsters (i.e. >25) must listen to the newer generation.
Listen up! Firefox is a better browser than Microsoft Internet Explorer. It’s faster, sleeker, configurable, and is moving ahead. It’s drop-dead simple to install. A new version came out yesterday. It’s invulnerable to most of the security threats Microsoft issues with increasing frequency. I can hardly abide the web without the convenience of Firefox’s tabbed (multi-window) browsing.
| September 14, 2004 | Vol. 3, Issue 9 | |
| JEDlets are informative, interactive, and entertaining online tutorials for today’s busy learners. www.jedlet.com |
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Thanks to all who wrote in regarding who coined the term “e-learning”? Enjoy your complimentary JEDlets. We are pleased to have its originator, Jay Cross, enlighten us on its evolution. |
A character in Carl Hiaasen’s new novel, Skinny Dip, refers to Alzheimer’s as old-timer’s disease. This got me thinking about short-timer’s disease, the phenomenon of people taking stupid shortcuts because they don’t expect to be around long enough to suffer the consequences.
In Adu Dhabi, Mario Garcia, ceo of Garcia Media, described a machine in the Frankfurt Airport where, for €3, you can Continue reading
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Networks are defined by the quality of their connections. The measure of network success is its rate of error-free throughput. The successful business has high bandwidth and connections so good that value flows without friction.
The successful software environment is one that connects so well with business, workers and other computers that no one notices it’s there.
The successful worker is one Continue reading
