
Lloyd Budd
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PDF to Amazon Kindle
The information out there makes it sound like you can view PDFs on the Kindle 2 e-book reader. This is not true. So how do you get your PDFs on your Kindle? In my experience both Lexcycle Stanza and the Calibre App PDF … Continue reading
Bad is Strong
Bad is stronger than good. It is more important to eliminate the negative than to accentuate the positive. Robert I. Sutton, “12 Things Good Bosses Believe“, Friday, May 28, 2010 There are interesting discussions in the comments on that article … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Collaborations, Communities, Emotions, empathy, Groups, jobs, leadership, Negative energies, Positive forces, Relationships, Tribes, Workplaces
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Reveal Files on Mac OS X
My co-worker Michael Adams starts “PHP 5 + Apache 2 + MySQL 5 on OS X via MacPorts” with a great developer tip for Mac Finder: # Displays all files in Finder. Optional: personal preference. $ defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles … Continue reading
Online Productivity Expensive?
With a young family I’ve found myself drawn to calendaring and to using “to do” lists extensively. It has freed my time and energy to instead enjoy it with my wife and son. I’ve turned my eye to doing some … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Web, Work
Tagged Billing, Billing Software, FreshBooks, Harvest, Invoicing, Mac Apps, Marketcircle Billing, money, On The Job, Productivity, SaaS, Software as a Service, Time, Time Slips, Time Tracking, TimeLog, Timing, toggl, Web Based Productivity Tools
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Artificial life
“This is the first time any synthetic DNA has been in complete control of a cell,” said Dr Venter. Victoria Gill, “‘Artificial life’ breakthrough announced by scientists“, BBC News, May 20th, 2010
Posted in Humanity
Tagged Artificial Life, Designer Bacteria, Dr Craig Venter, Ethics, Genome, Science, Synthetic Life, Synthetic Organisms
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Apple for Enterprise
“Where we think we’ll make our money — where we think we’re able to differentiate ourselves from IBM and everybody else — is by building complete and integrated systems from silicon all the way up through the software, all prepackaged … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged Apple.com, Enterprise Hardware, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Solutions, Jim Finkle, Larry Ellison, Oracle.com, Reuters
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A New Favorite Comment Spam
This blog is a honey pot for hand rolled comment spam. Here is a new favorite spam comment: (without prestigious )With reference to previous Emails so I see that your solution was to ban me complicity , firstly thanks as … Continue reading →