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THE KEY WORDS ARE "VALUE EXCELLENCE"
I came to the conclusion that at some point our civilization will either value excellence in information technology, or will die. We're building so many systems on the little ones and zeroes, but yet our universities turn out crappy developers with no ladder to climb, few real heroes to look up to, no bonafide life saving techie role models. [Scripting News]
4:28:26 PM 
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FINDING YOUR FUTURE
Opinion Research reports that almost 40 percent of all adults find the idea of owning a business extremely interesting. A whopping 96 percent of the population between 25 and 44 years of age also feels this way. The first question facing a wanna-be entrepreneur is: "What kind of business should I start?" # [John Henry on Business]
3:55:36 PM
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AN INTERESTING CONCEPT
that could cut consultants, integrators and small network administrators out of the loop. The notion that I.T. design and implementation can be done by everybody is growing. Some suppliers seem to be saying, "ever had an erector set or Tinker Toys? You can do this, too!"
IBM aims wireless at smaller businesses. ThinkPad-based network offerings speed time to productivity [InfoWorld: Top News]
3:37:19 PM
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THE LATEST POST TO MY "TEDIOUS ONLINE DIARY"
If You Were a Well-Paid Newspaper Columnist Covering the Silicon Valley, Would You Write This?:
Wired magazine, a scout for all that is cyberhip, marked the change with a story titled “Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of.” My reaction? Whatever. Blogs reside at what these days is the busy intersection of technology, voyeurism and self-absorption. (Think “Survivor,” “Fear Factor,” “Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska.”) And in that way they are a fine measure of what we've become: people who think their warped relationships, car trouble and mental illnesses are of interest to a vast audience.
Cyberhip?
This column, which treats all blogs as tedious online diaries, was written by Mike Cassidy, who is very happy to tell his Silicon Valley readers that he’s “never been an early adopter.” The column ends with an unfunny fake blog post that has nothing in common with the last 2,000 blog posts I’ve read.
This type of column -- the “I turned my back on a not-very-new trend of specific interest to my readers, so now, instead of catching up, I’m going to make fun of it” piece -- is a sub-category just dominated by monopolist daily newspapers. [Matt Welch's Warblog]
3:10:31 PM
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DOES PASSPORT GIVE WAY TO PALLADIUM?
WOW. When I wrote tomorrow's TechCentralStation column, I hadn't heard about this. But it's pretty close to what I warn against. [InstaPundit]
3:03:03 PM
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MAKING MONEY WITH A WEBLOG - PART IV
See also Part III
Andrew Sullivan is asking readers to take a survey so that he can better provide demographic information to a potential site sponsor. Sorry, Andrew doesn't provide permalinks on his site. The post begins, "And now...A Survey." Sullivan's site reinforces the notion that there are four ways to make money operating a weblog.
10:14:47 AM
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THE BODY'S MECHANICS
For a system called a copier, we call a service technician.
For a system called a toilet, we call a plumber.
For a system called a car, we call a mechanic.
For a system called a body, we call a doctor.
When we value our entertainers, we pay millions.
When we value our teachers, we pay thousands.
Why?
10:01:54 AM
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PLACING TEXT AND GRAPHICS
Many thanks to Dane Carlson for his help in revising this post. Previously the image was above the text. Dane sent me an email that suggested the following:
Change from:
<IMG src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100740/myImages/anyimage.gif">
To:
<IMG src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100740/myImages/anyimage.gif" align=left hspace=20>
It worked. Now to spend some time understanding what it does and why it worked!
I got comments and email from Rob Fahrni and Joe Jenett. Either the 'hspace' difference in Dane's email made the difference or a <P> paragraph tag was causing problems. Just when I thought I had some of this down pat, it bites me again. Still diggin'.
9:08:48 AM
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GREAT NEW LOOK
I'm inching toward a move to my own domain. Hope of a "nice, clean new look" is still in the distance! Well done, James!
James Snell: Coming soon.... www.snellspace.com. Moving the blog to it's own domain. Nice, clean, new look too. [Sam Ruby]
8:33:25 AM
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THIS MIGHT BE A HORSE RACE
Buy.com takes on Amazon on books. Buy.com is broadening its war with Amazon.com, promising to sell its books at 10 percent below Amazon's prices, the company plans to announce on Tuesday. [CNET News.com]
8:18:03 AM
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LEARNING HTML FUNDAMENTALS ALONG WITH ACCESSIBILITY
Day 12: Using color safely. This tip is a general rule that applies to many areas of web design, but I will focus on a specific example that is common among weblogs: link text. [dive into mark]
8:11:51 AM
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MAYBE I'VE BEEN WRONG ABOUT THE 'NEW' HP
In college HP was king of the hill when it came to well-designed products with a look and feel that made you certain they stood for quality. Their calculators and other instrumentation products continued that tradition for many years. Today an HP -12C financial calculator is still a marvel of effective engineering.
Yesterday's announcement followed by this news shows that HP may not have been distracted by the Compaq merger and the new CEO.
HP to overhaul consumer printer line. Hewlett-Packard, which relies heavily on profits derived from its printer business, is expected to announce Tuesday that it is revamping its entire line of consumer printers. [CNET News.com]
7:57:05 AM
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BROADBAND RULES
Dan Bricklin points to a new report from Pew's study of broadband usage: "Once again, this group is giving us some real data to help us understand what real people do with the Internet, not imaginary people dreamed up by companies who only think of "consumers" and "viewers". It is definitely worth reading this report in detail, and, of course, it's available on the Web." [lawrence's notebook]
7:49:12 AM
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DOES HE KNOW WHERE HIS OFF-SITE BACKUP IS?
Do You Know Where His Keys Are?. One man's attempt to learn how to use a Web server turned into a giant, obsessive Web project: He has documented and photographed the entire contents of his house for all the Web's surfers to see. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
7:39:36 AM
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AROUND THE WORLD IN A BALLOON
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7:03:27 AM
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