Too Nice in the Workplace?
Some thoughts from the Career Management Blog.
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Scam E-mails – Apply Common Sense
My parents taught me when I was very young that if something looked too good to be true, it probably wasn’t. That kind of good sense applies to detecting scams. The question to ask when you are offered a program that is supposed to make you lots of money with very little work is this:…
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Pay Attention to Site Behavior
There’s a story on MSNBC.com about a security vulnerability discovered in DNS servers. Those are the machines that take the name you type into your address bar and convert it into numbers your computer can comprehend. If it converts it into the wrong set of numbers, you go to the wrong place. It would be…
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PCMagazine Adobe Buzzword Review
Is Adobe Buzzword an alternative to your word processor? Check this review and find out.
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Is Suing for Copyright Infringement Good Business?
I’ve often wondered about this, and now there’s a discussion going at TechDirt. I suspect the commenter who points out that suing your customers is generally a bad decision, referencing the RIAA. I think that it’s very likely that one will make money via information delivery much more than by simple generation, and if artists,…
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Foresight and Solving Technological Problems
I’m a strong advocate of thinking long term when trying to solve problems in government, not to mention business and personal activities. Very often problems result from not thinking long term enough. This reminds me of the time way back in prehistory (1992, to be precise) when I was a Computer Specialist at Radio Shack….
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Through the Washing Machine
One of the difficulties with being absent minded is that you forget things. Did I mention that you forget things? Well, I’m absent minded, and I forget things. The other day I decided to help my wife out by running a couple of loads of wash. When the first load was nearly done drying, my…
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Photo Management and Raw Photo Editing in Linux
Ubuntu Productivity provides a good list of apps, short reviews, and links (HT: OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas).
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Another Blogrush Update
I have previously posted on my marginal regard for Blogrush as a means of driving traffic to your site. I’m still marginal, but recent reports have suggested perhaps I should go to marginal++. Over the last couple of weeks I have had a number of posts go into two digits of click throughs. That still…
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10 More Tools for Twitter
. . . from a more serious perspective, from Jason Hiner.