July 28th, 2007 | 
I may be the last person on the planet to learn this stuff, but just in case, I thought I would tell everyone here about two Google search features that I just ran across: view:timeline and view:map. As is true for almost everything that comes out of Google, I believe that this search functionality [...]
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There are some that are calling for this year’s Tour de France to conclude without crowning a winner. That seems patently absurd to me. To punish those who are clean because some used drugs or doping to compete makes no sense. It’s like calling off the World Series because some players were found to [...] Holy crow! What a disaster. So, the Tour de France started with several top riders accused of doping being banned from the race. Then, during the Tour, a few other riders were kicked out for failing blood tests or illegal blood transfusions, including Alexandre Vinokourov, who was favored to win. In fact, the manager [...] It seems that I’ve stumbled upon one of the greatest agricultural breakthroughs of our time – grass that never needs mowing. I have a yard full of the stuff. Low maintenance, time-saving and great for the environment. There appears to be only two problems with it. It only comes in one color – brown, and [...] Sure, it’s theoretically possible to create bug-free high-tech products. That is, products that seem “bug-free” to the user when they: are used exactly as intended by their creator are used by users who are only looking for a common and strict subset of the product’s prescribed functionality are always used in the same, well-known environment are intuitive [...] A long time ago I read a book about group brainstorming – using group-think to solve problems and uncover new ideas and directions. I don’t remember the book or much that was in it, as is the case for the vast majority of business how-to books that I’ve read. My one take-away, though, was [...] While looking for some information about the Tour yesterday (other than controversy about doping, it’s really difficult to get decent information about the Tour de France in English), I stumbled across this great website. It’s a mashup that superimposes today’s TDF stage on a Google map, adds a chart of the elevation of the stage, [...] All companies, yup that includes the successful ones, eventually have some form of layoff. Before you go ballistic on me, let’s first define a layoff. According to Wikipedia, a layoff is: the termination of employment of an employee or (more commonly) a group of employees for business reasons, such as the decision that certain positions [...]
The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) is a charitable, 2-day bike ride across the state of Massachusetts that raises money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. The ride was the first fundraising bike-a-thon in the country, starting in 1980. Since then, over 42,000 riders and 25,000 support volunteers have made [...] My father was born in 1928 and will turn 80 next January. Like many of his generation, he’s struggled a bit to adopt all the new technology that’s been thrown at him over the years, but he’s made a pretty good attempt. Email and cell phones have mostly made it into the mix, but [...] |
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