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Nick Gall's Weblog
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Friday, January 28, 2005 |
Should Your Next CEO Be a Philosopher?This must be a rhetorical question. Of course your CEO should be a philosopher. Finally, after twenty-five years, my BA in Philosophy will actually get me a job. I'm retaining the best CEO recruiter I can find out there. Hmmm? Which company most needs a CEO with my philosophical point of view? I will lead with an empowering blend of contingency, irony, and solidarity.
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Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
The peanut butter diet.I lost 30 lbs in five months eating three peanut butter sandwhiches a day. I was going to write a book and make millions. Now, someone has stolen my diet idea! Oh yeah, they published their book, The Peanut Butter Diet, at least two years ago. But still.
11:11:27 PM
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FurlingNote the change to my weblog. I've added a list of recently "Furled" pages to my home page "navigation box" to the right of this post. What's Furl you say? Furl is one of a number of emerging "bookmark" ASPs (application service providers). (Since, I'm an analyst, maybe I should coin the term "Content Service Provider". Naw.)
Rather than storing my bookmarks on my hard drive using good old Compass. I now store them at Furl, which has serveral advantages:
- I can share them with others more easily (including letting others subscribe to see new bookmarks as I collect them)
- Furl permanently caches a copy of the Furled page, just in case the link breaks down the line for some reason (this is what initially attracted me to Furl)
- I can see who else has Furled the same page, which is a great way to find people with similar obscure interests)
- I can see how many people have hit one of my bookmarks (maybe someday Furl will let me see where the hit came from)
- I can comment on the page (this eliminates the need to do such commenting on my web page)
So give it a try. Click on a Furl that interests you or click on Full Archive of Furled Pages to see all the cool pages I've encountered in my travels. Furl is highly recommended. (And yes, you can download an XML document with all your bookmarks at any time. Something that A9 lacks.)
12:41:40 PM
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
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Monday, January 10, 2005 |
Happy New Year.Sorry for the lull in the posts. Busy, busy, busy. I just made a minor change to the site, so I thought I'd mention it here: categories.
I finally turned on Radio's categories capability. Now I can annotate each entry with one or more categories so readers can read through just the entries on a particular topic.
You can see my initial list of categories on the right of the home page in the "navigation box" or whatever it's called. Of course, now I have to go back and manually catagorize all past entries. What fun!
9:29:40 AM
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