Month: July 2008
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Chances
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.Julia Soul
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Guess what this is?
Answer — at the endJail in Austriavia email from Greg Merth, Wed, 2 Jul 2008 04:53:09 -0700
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Waste time
I’ll be honest with you, I love Jesus, but I drink a little bit…. Gladys tells it like it isSpicy language (about language) from the late, great George CarlinIf you missed ’em, several years of Internet memesA clever take on a familiar stereo controlMusic, hand-drawn cover art, and stories behind 80s-era mix tapesA drastic street…
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P & G — Serving your needs since 1837
The article includes a case study of Febreze, a furniture spray that almost failed until Procter & Gamble figured out how to manipulate customers into making it part of their daily routine. Great quote from a P&G psychologist:> we realized we needed to create new products. So we began> thinking about how to create habits…
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Patriotism
A defense of patriotism is an attack on the Enlightenment; a defense of all group phenomena related or analogous to patriotism is also an attack on the Enlightenment.George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes, page 4
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SharePoint 2003
I was just looking for a list item in SharePoint by searching for an item id in a list, which though displayed, cannot be found by the built in search… Then I realized that this is the most useless tool following a claw-hammer that just has two claws and no face!
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Self service
In reading Michael Saine’s column in the August DDJ today he talks about Marshall McLuhan’s forecast that “The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself’.” Quite timely since I was talking with one of the other project managers yesterday who was typing up a storm on a document when…