Leaked Microsoft Training Videos

Supposedly Microsoft has started an investigation to determine how these supposedly private internal training videos were leaked to the Internet.

Apparently Ricky Gervais (The Office – British version) and Stephen Merchant (his writing partner) made these videos back in 2003 with funding from MS.  These videos should be required material for all aspiring [...]

YouTube to iTunes/iPod

This free software will let you save any YouTube video to your iTunes/iPod.  Simply paste in the URL of the video and iTube does the rest.  Thank you Mr. Benjamin Strahs!


iTube


Update:  It occurred to me after I posted this that some of you might not be familiar with YouTube.   According to a July 16 announcement, 100 [...]

GlimaWest Blog Event – September 28th

I will be moderating an event about blogs and blogging, hosted by glimaWest.  Our intention is to discuss blogs as a means of promoting business and political messages.  We have asked for participation from several local bloggers, and we are getting some very interesting panelists lined up.  A blogger from the Granholm for Governor campaign blog may be [...]

Wikiality

Stephen Colbert has coined yet another word that will soon become a part of your vocabulary:  Wikiality.  Earlier this year he turned heads with is addition of “Truthiness” to the global lexicon.

In my humble opinion there is a degree of truthiness in Stephen’s definition of wikiality.  We are indeed entering a new phase of consensus building via Blogs, Wikis (in [...]

Pandora

This music site is amazing:


http://www.pandora.com/


Based on your favorite song or favorite artist it starts suggesting related music.  You can rate their suggestions and the system adjusts based on your recommendations.  After a few songs it offered up some of the best music I’ve heard in a long time. 


Cost:  Free [...]

Energy Efficiency is More than Just Fuel Economy

Looking for an energy efficient vehicle?  In terms of total energy efficiency including production, actual usage, and disposal, Scion xB leads the list, significantly better than even the best hybrids.

 

That’s the conclusion of long-term study of “dust to dust” energy costs for cars and [...]

The Internet Demystified

For some of you who have not been able to envision the inner workings of the Internet, you might find this Website useful [...]

Son of a Nut Cracker

It was Christmas Eve, and I was tracking Santa Clause with my six year old son on Google Earth. Santa’s sleigh bounced between small European towns as midnight approached.

“Santa is coming”, his tired and grouchy dad said. “You should think about getting to bed”.
The boy was not tired, the boy would not budge.
“But he’s still in [...]

Persons of the Year

Bill Gates has given more to charity than any human being in history.  Bono leveraged his celebrity status to entice the leaders of our richest nations to forgive $50 Billion in debt to poor countries.  I wonder how many lives they have saved through their actions?

“For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering [...]

Video Games

If I was living a life of leisure, without the responsibilities of work and family, I would certainly be a video game addict.  So I wasn’t surprised when my son took an early liking to video games (played on our home PC).  How much is too much?

Steven Johnson makes a compelling arguement for the possibility that video [...]