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Month: April 2007

links for 2007-04-15

Get Word To Help You Stop Writing In Passive Voice ~ Windows Fanatic (tags: Writing MSWord) Sanders Says: Bring a timer to your next meeting (tags: business) Google Reader a good alternative to stand-alone RSS Aggregators, especially for someone who travels and may be on different computers each day. (tags: rss news google blog) Images: […]

The Net’s Not Free Here

I’m in Dallas Texas this week. — where everything’s bigger. The weather’s great, the food’s tasty, and things are going pretty smoothly at my customer’s site. But either I’m spoiled or I don’t properly appreciate the economic differences between hotels here and those in Columbus GA. Over the past 8 weeks or so I’ve spent […]

On Writing

Manager Tools podcast: Write More Effectively. If you were reading email, and every paragraph were written like that, you could read the first sentence of every paragraph and be done. [via Mike McBride] See also Air University Review’s An Effective Writing Formula for Unsure Writers, Army’s Effective Writing Tips.

Halo 3 On The Way

Nov 2nd: “THE Game is Now Pre-Orderable.” today, Posted by Frankie on Bungie.net: “The Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta will go live on May 16th at 12:00 AM PDT” Oh man, maybe it’s time to go buy a copy of Crackdown. Rob, are you ready?

Dead Like Live TV

Today my wife and I finished watching the final episodes from the second season of Dead Like Me. The final episodes ever, as only two seasons were ever produced. I seem to have quite a knack for finding – and enjoying – quirky series’ that have already been cancelled. Dead Like Me. Carnivàle. Firefly. I […]

links for 2007-04-01

A conversation with Phil Libin about REAL ID « Jon Udell “The basics of asymmetric cryptography are fundamental concepts that any member of society who wants to understand how the world works, or could work, needs to understand.” (tags: cryptography RealID) REAL ID Act – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: RealID)

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