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Archive for October, 2006

Getting back on subject, I wonder what it takes to get customer immersed? Sometimes it is hard. Recently, I had a customer that had communication problems with his staff and he thought that everything that was broken was our fault, even though we had no knowedge of the problems (which really were not ours anyway, [...]

I’ve written before about how much I like Netvibes – its the best RSS reader I have found yet.  Here is a tutorial on getting started with Netvibes.

I just happened to stumble across the Internet Bullshit Generator and a more techy-oriented version that you can build yourself at BuzzPhraser that I had stored from the first dot-com explosion era.  Funny even today.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Over on Brand to be Determined,  Ed Shipul has a post for a great website for listing things that I can do, appropriately titled ThingsICanDo.  It is intended to be an alternative resume website, but I think its potential goes farther than that.  Imagine being able to filter all the way down for someone with the [...]

This is great.  The President is up on his technology.

I’ve been using IE7 since RC1, and I have to say that it is finally right.  It seems the team at Microsoft has gotten off their butts and finally built what users wanted and needed.  From phishing site blocking to (finally) tabbed browsing to RSS reading, it delivers – pure and simple. I don’t want [...]

  Little Qila, cute & innocent Big Qila, conniving and demonlike

I really like Opera – it is one of the best browsers availble.  The problem is a lack of compatibility with all websites.  Get IE7 now – it is better than ever.

Over at Read/Write Web, there is a post about RSS finally hitting mainstream in 2007.  I believe so because of the popularity of feedreaders such as My Yahoo and Google, and the upcoming IE7 and Outlook 2007.  It is just a shame that it is sometimes so geeky to subscribe to feeds, something the mainstream will [...]

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