Chiperoni
From the monthly archives: October 2008
For future reference:
Marketing is never about a hammer hitting plate glass.
It is almost always about the accrued power of a thousand drips, drips that accrue, drop by drop until they overwhelm the status quo and break through, starting a flood.
The first drip is very exciting, of course. Everyone lines up [...]
Executive summary:
Best tool to open .mht files on a Mac is Opera for Mac.
I regret deleting Windows Vista.
Last week I was sent a .mht file. And now I’m searching the Internet for a solution how to open this proprietary Microsoft file (my perception, but according to
I recently talked to Persillie on the difficulty of following people’s tweet streams. Esp. if you have a limited time budget and can only tune into Twitter every so often.
For example, I follow Kathy Sierra’s stream at Twitter. You can see quite a few of her 140 character statements in my
I like this quote:
The GUI is the only contact the user has with the application.
that I found in this presentation:
which I found while surfing thru my Sitemeter stats.
An obvious fact. Yet…
When talking to software developers, I often hear complaints about the quality of code (especially [...]
LOL at this Wired article!
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
I agree with the author. Blogging is so 2004. For the record: I installed WordPress on this server in September 2004. Time to pull the plug.
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Recommended reading:
BBC’s James Morgan on fish farming in rural areas of Zomba district, Malawi.
It’s a perfect circle. “Or what we call an integrated agriculture-aquaculture (IAA) system,” says Joseph Nagoli, of WorldFish. “This isn’t high input fish farming. This is simple and sustainable.”
Cross-reference:
Mlle A. points to online marketplaces for handmade products in Switzerland.
Stumbled across this 5 seconds ago:
1. Virtualization
2. Business Intelligence
3. Cloud Computing
4. Green IT
5. Unified Communications
6. Social Software and Social Networking
7. Web Oriented Architecture
8. Enterprise Mashups
9. Specialized Systems
10. Servers – Beyond Blades
Will be [...]
Last minute pointer:
Kunstschaffende aus Basel und der Region öffnen alle zwei Jahre an einem Wochenende ihre Ateliertüren, um einem interessierten Publikum Einblick in ihr Schaffen zu gewähren.
Portes Ouvertes is happening this weekend. Various Basel artists are taking part. A great way to see how artists work.
Hat tip: Martin [...]
