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[Rittman.net] Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog: General Archives: To recap a part of Tom's posting, writing a book for him was a bit of a career changing (or "career affirming") exercise as it cemented in his mind the fact that he got a lot out of helping other people, and the book itself gave him a level of credibility that meant people had faith in acting on his recommendations. I've been giving a lot of thought recently to writing a book, not that I'm saying I've anywhere near the experience of people like Tom but as a way of putting some proper structure around some of the things I write about and as a way of helping anyone who's trying to get something out of Oracle's BI&W tools.
[News.techwhack.com] » Wireless-Mobile :: TechWhack News :: Tech Food for Geeks: Analysts have reported that there is a large segment of customers out there especially the older people who are looking for such products. This was also confirmed in a report published last year by consultancy firm Cap Gemini. They discovered that many customers were not exactly enticed by what the mobile companies were offering in the market.
[Bleedingedge.com.au] Bleeding Edge: April 2005 Archives: Unfortunately, the story doesn't answer the question. What it does, essentially, is point out that some bloggers - Kevin Aylward of the conservative Wizbangblog, and ultra-conservative Patrick O'Brien, of Clarity & Resolve, have enormous contempt for journalists working in the media, and blogs like BoingBoing, written by that sort of journalist, while Kurt Anderson, the founder of Inside.com, has said some particularly nasty things about bloggers, specifically that they're remoras [parasitic fish that hang around sharks] and "a second-tier journalistic species". What's more, opines Mr Anderson,
[Computingunplugged.com] Computing Unplugged News - News Archive: The FBI confirmed Tuesday the accuracy of a New York Times report that software on routers were compromised last year by a hacker who claimed that he had infiltrated systems serving U.S. military installations, research laboratories, and NASA. The Times reported, and the FBI confirmed, that the focus of the investigation is a youth in Uppsala, Sweden, who has been charged as a juvenile. The Times also reported that a California researcher got taunting messages from the hacker, who called himself "Stakkato," claiming to have infiltrated computer systems at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
[Mp.blogs.com] *michael parekh on IT*: Global Economy: As John Doerr of the VC firm Kleiner Perkins so eloquently puts it, we should increasingly staple Green Cards to the diplomas of foreign students graduating from US universities, so that they'd stay and contribute the country's economy directly, rather than heading back to China or India for better opportunity. Who knows, the ultimate irony may not be the parodied news of a possible future announcement regarding Lou Dobbs, but that Lou Dobbs is hired as the lead anchor by India's ZeeTV RupiyaLine?
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