Category Archives: Technology

As my friend Anne Stanton sez, "I am sharing this because sometimes something comes across that can just blow all perspectives out of the water… "    

My good friend Carole points to zipskinny.com. For a guy like me who luvs statistics and buys the Statistical Abstract of the United States every five years or so, it is so interesting. What’s your zip?

I’ve been playing with the social software known as facebook.com. And I’ve decided I have a lot of friends here in the Windows Live Spaces world that I wish were on facebook. I learn so much about my friends there, but a … Continue reading →

In the category of more toys than I have time to play with is this very interesting project for sharing pictures and files any where, any time. This may become the answer to me having duplicate files on each of … Continue reading →

In the ‘this is way cool’ category from the FEI company: "A new microscope developed by the TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, has recorded the highest-resolution images ever seen (0.05 nanometer and … Continue reading →

  Dad and I have been talking about this blog and part of what he says is, "Lying is for the shortsighted." Hugh MacLeod is a very interesting blogger, artist, and social scientist. His blog, gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the … Continue reading →

In a recent InfoWorld article "Kittens — the solution to spam?" Microsoft discusses the next idea to beat spammers. "Kevin Larson, a researcher at Microsoft’s advanced reading technologies group, has found that asking a user to identify the subject of … Continue reading →

 A friend of mine and coworker Philip Richardson blogged about reaching the Century mark on LinkedIn.com. I started using LinkedIn shortly after joining the CRM team last year. Here are my take aways.  1. Why didn’t I do this sooner. There … Continue reading →

VentureBeat 05.10.07 Did you know our primitive brains weren’t wired very well to read this paragraph? Scientific research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies, a small Minnesota startup that has been studying our ability to read for the last ten years, … Continue reading →

We still get telemarketers calling us late at night. Usually I look at the caller ID and then decide not to answer the phone. Most of my friends and family have their names pop up, but not everyone. So sometimes … Continue reading →