Archive | February, 2008
No Ipod to podcast

You Don’t Need an Ipod or Itunes to podcast

For all the talk of podcasting, for most people there remains a large belief that it is “complicated” to listen to a podcast, much less make one. So, a couple of reassuring blogs/sites and a YouTube song [no more talking] for those of you who would like to jump in! You don’t need an IPOD [...]

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Great Teachers

Great Teachers in my Life

I remember the great teachers in my life as if it were yesterday that I was sitting in their classroom and reveling in the learning. I have been blessed to have had six standout teachers whom I will honour today in the post below. The real take away for any reader of this post is [...]

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Geek Test

Geek Test

Ayant passé le Geek Test en entier (English version of the test innergeek v3.1) pour savoir à quel niveau de Geek suis-je, je découvre à ma grosse déception qu’avec 1811 points, je ne suis juste qu’un « REASONABLE GEEK». Autrement dit, je suis un geek raisonnable comparé aux 71,644 autres internautes qui ont pris le [...]

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Social Shopping Revolution

Social Shopping as part of the Web 2.0 Revolution

In the wake of the social networking onslaught has come the wave of the more overtly commercial social shopping online concept. A combination of social networking and e-commerce, the concept is a consumer-centric version of Amazon, putting the shopper at the centre and giving the “subscribers” the opportunity to vote, note and share what they [...]

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43 things

Finishing Touch and Completing To Do Lists

To Do or Not to Do? I get, what seems to be, undue pleasure at times by crossing out an item on my list of things to do. The mere act of crossing out the item (or ticking the box on the blackberry or PDA “tasks”) is itself a pleasure. That said, I have observed [...]

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Fasten seatbelts

Fasten your seatbelts

Fasten your seatbelt up at 10,000 feet? Is it any better to buckle up at 35,000 feet? If you are like me and the intimate masses who travel frequently, you will no doubt share a preconceived notion that wearing a seatbelt in an airplane is tantamount to putting a Band-Aid on a sawed off leg. [...]

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Women Men Difference

A Difference between Men and Women

Are Men and Women So Different? An advocate of diversity and a student of women’s studies at university, I keep an eagle eye on topics concerning equality. That said, there are also many ways to express and give value to the differences between men and women. A few years ago, it was determined (by scientists) [...]

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Microsoft buys Yahoo?

Microsoft buys Yahoo

Microsoft to buy Yahoo for real this time? (BBC report) It was announced late yesterday that Microsoft has put in a bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6B, some 62% above where Yahoo’s stock price closed on Thursday. Granted Yahoo stock has dropped 46% over the course of the last 3 months (high of $34 in [...]

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