Korean for Microsoft is good
Just click. It’s funny.
(Saw it on Dick’s Hardt’s Blame Canada site.)
A couple weeks ago, Mike Skovgaard and I went to Vancouver Enterprise Forum.
One of the speakers was Geoff Hansen from RocketBuilders, who happens to sit on the board of Puretracks, the music service that (he said) has more more market share in Canada than Apple’s iTunes.
Puretracks is also in the US, and other […]
A long time ago, I wrote about the first cardinal sin of project management.
Well, now I’m in the interesting situation of managing an enormous project which has grown from a pilot to an official launch to a company-wide multinational initiative, and along the way we’ve (necessarily) had some inefficiencies as we’ve scaled it increasingly bigger. […]
Norwegian company exodus?
Okayyyy ….
Norway is considering breaking up companies that do not have at least 40% women in top management.
“For a woman to get in a man must get out. It is not difficult to find qualified women.”
That’s a quote from Karita Bekkemellem, Norway’s minister for family and children. The second sentence is interesting, from a business […]
Supposedly Google and Microsoft are in the battle to buy AOL.
Nonsense.
Google just wants Microsoft to pay more, that’s all. So they’re staying in the game to up the ante … and they’ll duck out when it’s high enough and Microsoft wastes as much money as possible.
Google wouldn’t know what to do with AOL. It’d be […]
I don’t think this story about Stanford University and Aple’s iTunes working together received the attention it deserved.
Basically, what they’ve done is create a version of iTunes that, instead of selling songs and videos, is full of Stanford lectures, speeches, sporting broadcasts, and more.
Essentially, this is a pilot project for potentially releasing all kinds of […]
Windows Live …
on Mac OS X Safari …
… is not very live.
(It does work, however, on Firefox. “Work” being a somewhat relative term.)
Family Matters Calendar
OK, massive plug here for our first product, the Family Matters Calendar.
I’m starting up the Home & Family division for my company, Premier (US, Canada), and our first product is a custom photo calendar.
Bigger and better, IMHO
It’s bigger than most competitors’ calendars, at 11″ x 17″ opened. It has your photos, of course, since […]
Blog usability
I have been meaning to post on usability as it relates to blogs … I happened to see Jakob Neilsen’s article on blog usability the other day.
The funny thing is that from a day-to-day perspective, blogs (most of them) are about as usable as you can get … because all the content is spread right […]
Mac OS X 10.4.3
Well, I bravely updated our home iMac G5 to Mac OS X 10.5.3 today:
I say bravely, because when I updated my PowerBook G4, restarting was a bit problematic. I had the spinning charcoal dashes for easily 15 minutes. Finally gave up, started again, gave up again and restarted again, and was trying to go into […]

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