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October 12, 2006

8 entries filed this day

Urban Culture Makes More Raw Viewing

Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com

The Raw Report, is a DVD magazine and website that charts the Hip Hop scene and gives “viewers an inside look at the lives of their favorite artists who are well loved and often ignored by major media outlets.”It’s protest and it’s a focus for the anger of the Hip Hop movement. Gary Murray over...

Filed at 4:52am

Toshiba Protege M400 Tablet PC and Vista RC2

Editor · Software Development

I've been running Vista RC2 since the weekend on my Toshiba M400. I was running RC1 before that, and Beta 2 on and off prior to that. During the RC1 “era” (from an XP upgrade) I had a lot of junk on my laptop that wouldn't work.

Filed at 6:25am

Unifying My RSS Aggregation: IE7/Vista, Outlook 2007, Newsgator, Exchange

Editor · Software Development

Icarumba! All of those things in the title have 1 way or another of storing RSS feeds. But it wasn't as bad as I hoped. Now that I'm using Vista RC2 fulltime, I figured it was time to start looking into the IE7/Vista RSS store.

Filed at 6:41am

Grabbing the Headlines: Ten Views on Blogs and News

Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com

This week saw a small eruption in that corner of the blogging world where professional writers operate. It began with a post by Nick Carr, though blogcritics preceded it with a contribution from the BBC.What the debate you’re about to hear tells you is that a lot of people are learning to write headlines. Contributions...

Filed at 9:06am

Grabbing the Headlines: Ten Views on Blogs and News

Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com

This week saw a small eruption in that corner of the blogging world where professional writers operate. It began with a post by Nick Carr, though blogcritics preceded it with a contribution from the BBC.What the debate you’re about to hear tells you is that a lot of people are learning to write headlines. Contributions...

Filed at 9:11am

How do you define operational efficiency?

Editor · Patch Management

eXc Software appears to have perfected their development process.

Filed at 10:46am

Book Review: Beyond Java

Joel Spolsky · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development

Programmers under the age of thirty probably don’t realize why Aged Senile Programmers like me are so slow to adopt exciting new programming languages the day they come out, and why we roll our eyes at hip bandwagon ideas that sell books and consulting engagements (forgive me if I don’t seem excited enough about your new book, “Extreme UML Refactoring Patterns”).

Filed at 3:53pm

The pointlessness of user security training

Editor · ERP

Stefan Gorling, speaking at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Sweden this week, thinks that most user training on IT security is a waste of time.From a CNET report on the conference:"Might it be so that we use the term and concept of user education as a way to cover up our failure?" he asked a crowd of security professionals.

Filed at 4:35pm

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