fighting the lack of good ideas
I am very curious to know how people utilize social media in relation to work: blogging tweets etc I know it’s not horribly scientific, but if you’d be willing to participate in this inquiry, please leave a comment. I’ll be putting up a more formal poll in the coming days. Thanks!
If you ever install or setup something that someone else will have to maintain, please, please, please follow as close as possible the vendor’s typical installation process. And whether you go “standard” or not, please, please, please document everything you do! Those of us who will come after you will be intensely grateful for your…
Lots of corporations automatically append something like the following to emails sent outside their own servers: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email communication is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) designated above and may contain information which is subject to Federal and/or State privacy laws. In the event that you are not…
Especially for software projects, there are a wide variety of places that will host them – sourceforge, google code, and many more. You can even elect to host it yourself. In follow-up to my question on selecting a content distribution license from yesterday, what should go into selecting where to host a software project?
With the plethora of various licenses available for various types of content (writing, music, software, etc), it’s a highly daunting process to choose which one a creator or publisher wants to use. Connexions uses the Creative Commons Attribution License (v3.0). Some projects use the MIT or BSD license formats, others are public domain, some are [effectively] unlicensed. Open…
Somebody should start a fill-in-the-blank takeout and delivery service. Want Arby’s? Call FITB. Want Chinese? Call FITB. Want groceries? Call FITB. I bet there are a *LOT* of people who’d take advantage of services like that if they were offered – I would. Maybe I should start the first one in Lexington.
Pick your slant report – Huffington Post or Fox News: it has been reported that President Obama’s administration will be issuing waivers to 10 states with regard to compliancy with No Child Left Behind (which, in my opinion, is one of the biggest debacles in public education ever). If the point is to “leave no child behind”, why…
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