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's Archive for December, 2010

Happy New Year

From me and Mark Twain via the New York Public Library.

E-mail scamming, solved

As the morning wears on in the office, and we all hack our way through the endless thicket of e-mails from co-workers and clients who, with increasing urgency, each observe that their project is of unimaginable importance to mankind, the first of its kind in history, and the thing that will bring ultimate enlightenment to [...]

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated…

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. – Del.icio.us, Dec 2010 You may have seen the news that the future may not be tasty for Del.icio.us. It doesn’t look like del.icio.us is going away, but its future seems certain not be on the Yahoo menu: Yahoo Claims It’s Not Killing Delicious OK, enough of the [...]

Keep it Simple…

With technology, it’s often easy to forget that there’s a much easier way to do something than relying on the latest scripts or gadgets. This is a story of creating a gallery iPad kiosk.

Google Demo Slam

If you have a few minutes to waste before the New Year, take some time and watch a few of the Google Demos here.  People are fantastic.  http://www.demoslam.com/

Three-minute Management Course

Courtesy of Elegant Solutions (UK) LLP, a three-minute management course. Lesson 1 of 5 A man is getting into the shower as his wife is getting out, when the Doorbell rings. She quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. She opens the door to Fred, the next door neighbour. Before she says a [...]

The Inflatable Studio

For the last two years, we haven’t had a photography studio, due to a huge renewal / renovation project at my museum. We’ve been using all sorts of weird places as ad hoc “studios” — with varying success — but now we’ve stumbled upon the ultimate solution. Why didn’t we see this sooner? (Here. Some [...]

E-Book Privacy

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has posted an E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy on their site. It summarizes the privacy-related policies of several e-readers, covering questions like “Can they monitor what you’re reading and how you’re reading it after purchase and link that information back to you?” Unsurprisingly, there are a couple of unpleasant [...]

70,000,000

Just in case you missed this: click for the YouTube the link

And now for something completely different!

This item about a wayward street sign was reported in my Ethisphere newsletter for today.    My favorite part is the explanation proffered by the city officials.

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