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Wednesday, January 29, 2003

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t e c h n o c u l t u r e writes: "John Naughton has some great links to both his recent Observer column on the scourge of Powerpoint in the corporate world and to related links, one of which is to this wonderful version of the Gettysburg Address -- if Abe Lincoln had used Powerpoint."

Earlier in Learning by PowerPoint I wrote: "I believe that Learning by PowerPoint will be increasingly common, and generate increasingly worse results. Those students who have personal access to more experienced colleagues will probably do all right...". There is also a great PowerPoint Anthology of Literature.

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The New Security Threat: Lawyers: "What's the security problem you fear most? Is it viruses, trojans or computer crackers? How about lawyers? Recently, I've touched base with a number of folks in the computer security business, and when discussing potential security threats for the coming year, I got an answer I wasn't expecting -- but probably should have been." [osOpinion]

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IBM gets down to business with Grids: "The initiatives target potential customers in precise niche markets where grid technology is being embraced by early adopters. For each niche, IBM has put together a complete offering, including open source software technologies, its hardware and middleware, and products from dominant third party grid computing experts who have been in this market longer than Big Blue. " [The Register]

Issues of drug discovery -- Comment()
I was yesterday in a seminar on drug discovery. The presentations were fine and provoking. However, the discussion tended to get stuck in the same topics again and again: financing, expertise, and intellectual property rights. These are important issues, especially for a small country like Finland. We don't afford to make many mistakes. And because drug discovery is a relatively new field in Finland, we have to overcome some obstacles which have already been tackled in other countries.