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How to get your company to foot the bill

Great article on I Will Teach You To Be Rich on getting what you asked for: Companies don’t care about spending money on their employees as much as you think. As I wrote in Don’t Quit Without Asking For What You Want, One of my friends, for example, was unhappy about having to pay the […]

How the Rich get Richer

A staggering look at some of the little known facts in this nation. Technorati Tags: rich, richer, economy, people, inflation, weathly

Google Co-op: A Big Deal

This user created search engine released by Google called Google Co-op is taking the internet by storm. Look at the cool stuff Vik has been doing. Technorati Tags: Google, Google Co-op, search, engine, cool, tech, technology, features, user, Vik

Trojan horse installs antivirus program

In addition to setting up a compromised computer to relay spam, one example of malicious software also installs Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus program to get rid of competing malicious software. Story Link I guess this takes the war on malware to a new level. Technorati Tags: security, malware, spyware, trojan, virus, anti-virus, antivirus, Kaspersky

Block Office Chatter

Introducting ChatterBlocker, the PC software that uses digital audio technology to mask the sound of speech and other distractions so you can stay focused in any environment. ChatterBlocker does not use noise-cancellation. Instead it masks unwanted conversations with a soothing blend of nature sounds, music and background chatter. The goal is to render speech less […]

Scobleizer thinks Yellow Pages are outdated

I think he is wrong. I do not envision a day any time soon when everyone uses the internet for everything. It has a long way to go yet. Maybe in Redmond or Silicon Valley, but the truth is here in the plains, never gonna happen. Too many people that don’t care about it. Too […]

Zoho, the Next Big Thing

I’ve been watching Zoho for a few months now after I found out about their Creator product which allows you to create online applications in minutes. About a week ago they announced their Virtual Office suite which packages email, links, tasks, documents, calendar, and group collaboration and document sharing into one suite. It works with […]

Coding again

After a break from heavy coding for most of the summer (new job at work that doesn’t require programming) and taking a break from any summer coding projects of my own, for the most part, I am back to the grind. It was kinda fun actually. Funny how quickly you can become absorbed into a […]

Top Ten Windows Applications that are Hard to Live Without

Now that I have been using Ubuntu Linux for about 6 months pretty much full time, here is my list of software I cannot seem to replace: iTunes: This is one application that I have not even tried to replace on the Linux side. I refuse to do it. I think iTunes is that good. […]

My Cube at Work.

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