From the monthly archives:

July 2007

How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry

24 July 2007 Business Excellence

Guy Kawasaki has posted a Q&A on his blog with Tim Berry the President of Palo Alto Software, the makers of Business Plan Pro.  10 Questions about business planning.  My favorite response to the question of common mistakes was:
Answer: The worst by far is focusing on the plan instead of planning. This generates the [...]

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Seeing Yellow

23 July 2007 DRM

You probably didn’t realize that many color laser printers embed tiny yellow dots on each printed page. These tiny yellow dots amount to a “serial number” for each printer. Why would a printer manufacturer embed such a tracking system without the purchasers knowledge?
Seeing Yellow is the brainchild of MIT’s Computing Culture research group, [...]

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The Evolutionary Brain Glitch That Makes Terrorism Fail

13 July 2007 Politics

Bruce Schneier has written an excellent piece on terrorism and why it almost always fails to produce the outcome its purveyors hope.
But like all cognitive biases, correspondent inference theory fails sometimes. And one place it fails pretty spectacularly is in our response to terrorism. Because terrorism often results in the horrific deaths of innocents, [...]

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Excellent Web Instruction site

12 July 2007

Tagged as: Sports

Web

Thanks to my friend Kelly Smith for posting a link to this instructional website. As Kelly says, the web and especially the video enhanced web is the perfect medium for instruction of all types. I especially like this site because with my laptop, I can practice right outside in my wifi enabled yard.
VideoJug: [...]

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Spoof on Microsoft Surface Computing

12 July 2007 Humor

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Will It Blend? | The iPhone

10 July 2007

Tagged as: Gadgets

Apple

Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec: “Ouch!”

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Worldwide Anti-US Feelings Suggest Troubling Trend

10 July 2007 Business Excellence

Leadership: Worldwide Anti-US Feelings Suggest Troubling Trend:
Anyone that travels the global marketplace knows that negative views of the US are widely held. What often surprises people is the nations in which the population tends to view the US unfavorably. A massive global poll of 45,000 released by the Pew Research Center illustrates that the US [...]

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China executes ex-head of food and drug agency

9 July 2007 Politics

Well, I am not advocating that we follow the Chinese lead here, but one wonders what effect this type of policy would have on our own bureaucrats?
Quoting from the MSNBC article:
China on Tuesday executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol of the country’s wide-ranging problems on product [...]

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Help Build the Ultimate iPhone Feature Request List; Continuously Updated

7 July 2007

Tagged as: Gadgets

Apple

We invite you to add your ideas in the comments, and we ’ll add the ones we think are the best to the master list. (And if anything we bring up here actually is already possible in the iPhone, please let us know. We don’t claim to be iPhone experts yet). The list will be [...]

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iPhone Ads: TV versus real time (Video)

6 July 2007

Tagged as: Gadgets

Apple

Cnet follows in sync with the iphone commercials with the real deal. Amazingly, reality is in line with the hype (Apple marketing).
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