Still Angry After All These Years. Many of the New Economy tenets Tom Peters espoused have fallen by the wayside. But this most famous of management thinkers wants you to know he remains riled–and relevant. [Fast Company]
Month: October 2003
10 years
10 years. If you'd told me 10 years ago that 10 years from now not only would Darin and I still be together but we'd have two kids and have moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and back again and done whatever else it is we've done in 10 years I'd have said, “Hey,… Continue reading 10 years
Reading: Strategic Planning for NonProfit Boards
Reading: Strategic Planning for NonProfit Boards. In “The Board Member's Guide to Strategic Planning: A Practical Approach to Strengthening NonProfit Organizations” (1997), Fisher Howe provides a short, practical guide to strategic planning for members of the board of a nonprofit organization. He maintains that strategic planning is inherently a function of the board, not management and… Continue reading Reading: Strategic Planning for NonProfit Boards
Boingo inside Linksys?
Boingo inside Linksys?. Linksys's VPN wireless gateway, the WRV54G, has setting to turn unit into Boingo hot spot: I was unaware of this feature in the new $230 VPN gateway. Apparently, I've got a firmware version that wasn't intended to be public yet. However, it's numbered and dated identically with the firmware found on Linksys's… Continue reading Boingo inside Linksys?
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Stories like this from the AP demonstrate beyond a doubt that we are in a full scale LIC (low intensity conflict). The seriousness of this goes beyond Vietnam analogies. The fact is that no major conventional power has ever won a LIC in the last 50 years. Period. We will lose if we stay (and humiliated… Continue reading like this
Microsoft Alters IE Over Eolas Suit
eWEEK: Microsoft Alters IE Over Eolas Suit. The change will mean that Web developers must update methods used in Web pages with ActiveX Controls or users will face a dialog box asking them to click “OK” for the Web browser to load the control, Microsoft officials said. [Tomalak's Realm]
Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart
Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart. Flash MX 2004 features a rich set of components, from simple form controls to data grids and trees. The components are objects which all inherit from a base UIObject (which in turn inherits from MovieClip). Waleed Anbar's Flash Component Architecture article contains a nice component hierarchy chart, if you… Continue reading Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart
Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button
Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players–Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia–with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), coming on strong. These companies–all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid–have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to… Continue reading Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button
SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From
spf.pobox.com – SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From. SMTP has a security hole: any connecting client can assert any sender address. This flaw has been exploited by spammers to forge mail. Close the hole, and we can easily block spammers by sender domain. [ … ] October 2nd 2003: A unification project has begun under the aegis… Continue reading SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From
RSS-Data for ColdFusion
RSS-Data for ColdFusion. Roger Benningfield has posted a working implementation of RSS-Data for ColdFusion MX. As part of it, he's included an updated XML-RPC library, too, and provides a new serialization/deserialization method to the ColdFusion Component. What's most interesting is how little code it takes to work with, thanks to CFML and CFCs. [Jeremy Allaire's… Continue reading RSS-Data for ColdFusion