Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, July 17, 2006

[Item Permalink] Waste management in space -- Comment()
New Era of Commercial Space Development: "After eight years of planning, the actual creation and delivery into space took only nine months." This is fast. Now that space is not for big governments any more, it will be interesting to see what can be done with space. For example, what about debris in orbit. Will space be a business opporturnity for waste-management companies?


[Item Permalink] Training video on working at helpdesk -- Comment()
Internet Helpdesk: "There are the essentials of life. One of them is the Internet Help Desk." A great performance!


[Item Permalink] Building trust -- Comment()
My husband is making me suspicious: "He's e-mailing an ex-girlfriend and chatting with strange women -- and he gets defensive when I mention it." [Salon]


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Turning a Mac into an iPod speaker: "With a hack saw, a glue gun and a few hours of free time, you too can build a homemade iPod boom box." [CNET News.com - Digital Life]


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Citizen journalists get rewarded: " A picture taken in the aftermath of the London bombings has won the first citizen journalism award." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]