Selling the Downturn: Schwartz and the Silver Lining, written 2 days ago, As the slowdown begins to tickle the Internet economy, voices from unlikely places are grappling with the "opportunity" the possible worldwide depression presents for the tech industry. Steve Ballmer is on a barnstor...

Text Yourself from the OPAC, written 3 days ago, I am playing catch-up in many areas right now, and as a result there hasn't been as much activity here.  Hopefully the time of less activity has reached a middle… An interesting new feature that has begun to appear in OPACs is the ability to send t...

Phuket Rescue! An Ornate Paradise Tree Snake - Chrysopelea ornata!, written 13 hours ago, Phuket, Thailand: A quick walk to the local shop suddenly became an adventure when I spotted an Ornate Paradise Tree Snake, sometimes called a Golden Tree Snake, Ornate Flying Snake or Golden Flying Snake. Some...

Someone Stole Your Cell Phone? Tell It to Phone Home, written 3 weeks ago, A new mobile application from Maverick Mobile Solutions lets you protect the data on a stolen cellphone, track down its location and torture the thief. Think of it as LoJack for cell phones. full story @ bits Tags: cell phone...

Bias Media?, written 8 hours ago, Gee, you don't really think… No, it can't be! Well, maybe, but that really is hard to believe, isn't it? Let's see if we can come up with some evidence. Ok, how about this from Creative Minority Report: I'd say about half the hands go up. O'Brien then inexplicably...

Wandering the Enterprise Application Development Desert, written 12 hours ago, For the past 10 years the concept of service oriented architectures has dominated the conversation when it comes to application development in the enterprise. But the reality is that nothing in the enterprise is as orderl...

Nortel on Nortel, written 1 day ago, Nortel recently created a website, Nortel on Nortel, to host some of the best practices and experiences that Nortel's own Information Technology department uses in day to day IT business. While the best practices and case study documents are nice additions it's t...

Personal email and public office., written 1 day ago, The internet has played an important role in the 2008 American elections, with all sides using email, social networks, blogs and other web based tools to secure votes. But yesterday it was suggested the who ever gets the post of president will ha...

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Light Registries: All the taste -- none of the data entry, written 2 weeks ago, Recently Healthcare IT News published a story on the positive effects of a diabetes registry on the quality of care at Duke. They report that Duke has used DocSite, a registry product, for about a year and has improvemen...

Google Blogsearch More Useful Than Ever, written 3 days ago, If you happen to use Google Blogsearch before, you'd be surprised at the changes they have made since October1. In the past, Google Blogsearch was plain and simple, just as the Google search page is. But today, the homepage was completely ...

Cannot copy files from drives mapped with Clearcase views on Vista.., written 11 hours ago, OK. I dont hate vista as much as i thought i would. But heres a compelling reason.  I have a clearcase view mapped to Z:\ and my build process needs to copy some helper executables to local drive to continue...

The Lessons Learned from "Forensic Architecture", written 1 day ago, Blogger: Anne Thomas Manes Duane Nickull posted an interesting treatise regarding the lessons he's learned from four SOA-related architectural efforts he's participated in during the past 9 years, including ebXML, W3C Web...

Hacking for Dummies - Access to Other Peoples Systems Made Simple, written 1 week ago, Hac&#107in&#103 for Dummies - Access &#116o &#79&#116her Peoples Sys&#116ems Made Simple PDF | English | 74 Pages | 0.8MB Are you worried abou&#116 e&#120&#116erna&#108 &...

Order food with Gomobo, written 1 week ago, We have seen how MNL enables the mobile to bring us free beer. But what about food. Can the mobile provide us with that? Of course the answer to that question is Yes. The mobile phone wouldn't be the ultimate remote for life if it wasn't able to bring us ...

Data Manipulations with Entity Framework, written 5 days ago, When learning a new ORM one of the most important and interesting thing is to get to know how you can manipulate data with that tool.Thus, this particular thing is explained in this tutorial. There are two ways of accessing data with the ...

Open Source vs Commercial CMS?, written 13 hours ago, In a discussion for Content Management Professionals, an active Group on the LinkedIn platform, the question was raised by a member if others still see any relevance left for big commercial players in the field of Content Management Systems. A lo...

Hyper-V Live Migration To Compete VMware VMotion, written 1 week ago, I have just came across a very interesting post at Virtualization Team Blog. They have claimed that Hyper-V Live Migration will be available soon. This is a lot sooner than expected by VMware & most people in the IT industry. ...

It WAs a Hell of A daY!, written 1 week ago, It seemed like an usual Monday.. trouble waking early, wearing th damn full hand shirt and th tie( company Dumb rules dude ;) ) seemed like a real pain in th ass... .n th morning traffic was still annoying.. finaly reached office n was having quite a happ...

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