May 2012
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WatchWatch
Move by Dos Rios // Move is a technology garment designed by Electricfoxy that guides you toward optimal performance and precision in movement in an ambient, precise, and beautiful way. From daily activities to sports activities to expressive movement, it provides a softer, poetic, and more personal approach to physical performance that helps you eleviate incorrect physical movements, which can...
May 11th
April 2012
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Post on science reform
The current way in which we do science is plagued by many fundamental problems. One of them is that we don’t do enough replications. There are many reasons for this. While everyone agrees that it is crucially important for science as a whole to do so, the individuals who would have to do the work have very few incentives (and actually quite a few disincentives) not to replicate. This...
Apr 21st
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It’s the incentive structure, people! Why science...
Reblogged from The File Drawer: Another day, another New York Times report on bad practice in biomedical science. The growing problems with scientific research are by now well known: Many results in the top journals are cherry picked, methodological weaknesses and other important caveats are often swept under the rug, and a large fraction of findings cannot be replicated. In some rare cases,...
Apr 21st
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Really liked this book.
Really liked this book.Just Finished Reading: The House of Silk #sherlock #holmes #booksLike Anthony Horowitz I’ve always liked Sherlock Holmes, perhaps it is because my mother joked that I was related to the sleuth. Or because I visited 221B Baker Street as a child. In any case…View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post »Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in...
Apr 21st
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Just Finished Reading: The House of Silk #sherlock...
Like Anthony Horowitz I’ve always liked Sherlock Holmes, perhaps it is because my mother joked that I was related to the sleuth. Or because I visited 221B Baker Street as a child. In any case I am much enamored with the genius of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and as have been disappointed with many other tributes to the creator. And I was shocked whet James Randi revealed in his book that Doyle...
Apr 21st
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Colgate-Palmolive paying customers with coupon...
Oops! Colgate-Palmolive bids to snatch back coupon offer that meant it PAID customers to buy its hand wash By combining coupons and supermarkets’ own promotions, savvy shoppers were getting Palmolive’s hand wash for free or being paid to buy it. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/JglzXq
Apr 21st
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Friends don't let their friends photocopy coupons...
The coupon issuers may print in the fine print that they are void if copied and that any other usage constitutes fraud all they want, if the retailer accepting the coupon thought it was in anyway important they would ensure that the don’t allow invalidated coupons to be passed as valid. In many store they scan the coupon and verify its validity, just like they verify that the money...
Apr 21st
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Would You Glue a Smart Card to Your Cellphone?...
Would You Glue a Smart Card to Your Cellphone? In an attempt to kickstart the electronic cash revolution Barclays Bank in the U.K. is giving customers stick-on cards for their phones. There is a hint of desperation about the move. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/JglzGS
Apr 21st
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Nice article! #estimation #psychology
Nice article! muonlab » Why you suck at estimating – a lesson in psychology We all suck at estimating, regardless of how experienced we are. This is a fact that you should accept. Most of us are either ignorant to this or in denial. There are many ways we try to hide our inad… View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HQ9dD8
Apr 21st
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What's wrong with ICT Managers?
What’s wrong with ICT Managers? I read this post and immediately agreed with its assessment on the state of ICT, and ICT management. Not that ICT managers are suspect, just that the fruits of their labour often does not stand up under scrutiny. This can be where Agile, SCRUM or XP methodologies fill the gaps. And it’s not what they were made for, they are not a stopgap for bad...
Apr 17th
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Nice article! #estimation #psychology
Nice article! muonlab » Why you suck at estimating – a lesson in psychology We all suck at estimating, regardless of how experienced we are. This is a fact that you should accept. Most of us are either ignorant to this or in denial. There are many ways we try to hide our inad… View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HQ9dD8
Apr 17th
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What is wrong with ICT?
A day ago I read PHP: A fractal of bad design, and it made me sit down and think about writing this entry, of which the kernel has been gestating for quite a long time. I see this a lot; pro’s ranting about an aspect of our ‘craft’ that has gone totally pear-shaped; programmers complaining about the languages or the quality of code they are asked to fix and/or maintain, systems...
Apr 17th
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Playing with Photo Booth
Playing with Photo Booth View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HQ9ciz
Apr 17th
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Courtesy of Financial Times #bony #barclays
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Apr 17th
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Cross Site Request Forgery error message in...
Posting just now with my Google multiple account uid set incorrectly gave me a hidden xrsf error. ;) View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HQ9aqT
Apr 17th
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Playing with the Google Docs script engine...
Playing with the Google Docs script engine, discovered that the Google+ notification mails aren’t valid XML, they contain unclosed img and br tags. Do Google+ Developers have any advice for me? View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/IEkm5j
Apr 17th
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Thank you #xkcd
Thank you #xkcd xkcd: Never A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HQ9beG
Apr 17th
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I have proof from the site below #beer #calories
I have proof from the site below Heineken will make you fat quicker than drinking Grolsch Grolsch Premium Lager      5%      147 kcal     29.4 Heineken                           5%      150 kcal     30 Get Drunk Not Fat - Find The Lowest Calorie Beer, Lowest Calorie Alcohol Tip: Search by category using: beer, wine, hard, malt, liqueur, or energy drink. The chart shows alcoholic beverages...
Apr 17th
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Learned a lot from this article...
Learned a lot from this article, firstly that Dave McClure obviously has too much money. And secondly that diets can be fun. Now if only I can get ripped… TechCrunch | How I Got Ripped At 500 Startups Little sleep, lots of stress, free food at all hours, and Paul Singh constantly try to booze you under the table. Sounds like the old college days when you tried to rush for Sigma Chi,...
Apr 17th
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The Cloud Will Kill The Resume (via @TechCrunch)
Andy Pattinson TechCrunch | The Cloud Will Kill The Resume, And That’s a Good Thing I was recently going through an old banker’s box that I packed up years ago while I was cleaning out my office. There was a Palm Pilot, a mini cassette recorder, and even a stack of floppy disks. It w… View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/IEkhyN
Apr 17th
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- from Coffee Connection!
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Apr 17th
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I think Google will give us the Social Living...
I think Google will give us the Social Living Room Apple, Nintendo and Microsoft — Who’s Going to Provide Us with the Social Living Room? - SocialTimes Apple, Nintendo and Microsoft — Who’s Going to Provide Us with the Social Living Room? View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/IEkgus
Apr 17th
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After Spotify turning the Internet into MySpace...
After Spotify turning the Internet into MySpace two days ago they are going the way of Myspace… Al they need now is for Murdock to buy them and kill them further. In spite of $96M in losses, Spotify seeks new investors, better revenues Streaming music service Spotify hasn’t made too many friends in the music industry, mostly because it’s bringing fewer paid subscribers to...
Apr 17th
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Cool infographic!
Cool infographic! Split Testing Ideas for PPC Advertising [Infographic] | WordStream Get ideas for elements to split-test in your PPC ads and landing pages, including color, button design, font, tone, image versus illustration and more. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/IEkdyW
Apr 17th
Learn to read Korean in just 15 minutes
(via Ryan Estrada) Posted via email from General Musing on posterous
Apr 5th
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Yesterday's RedHat OpenShift Slides #RHCTams
OpenShift Primer - get your business into the Cloud today! View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell Leverage An Intelligent Application Infrastructure for Competitive Advantage. View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell Posted via email from General Musing on posterous
Apr 4th
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Last month I spend my day at the Red Hat Open...
Last month I spend my day at the Red Hat Open Cloud Tour, this is what happened: #RHCTams #conference Red Hat Open Cloud Tour #RHCTams #conference Today I spend my day at the Red Hat Open Cloud Tour, this is what happened today: Just heard the opening by Rajiv Sodhi, who is here despite having a baby due any moment. Margaret J. Rimmler’… View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s...
Apr 3rd
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Have fun with scrum... #ganesh
Having some fun with scrum… Scrum Masters as Sri Ganesha’s pundits #agile #xp You would probably not associate a god from the Indian pantheon with an Agile methodological, and there are many things that can be learned for Scrum masters from Ganesh. In Scrum the Scrum Master …. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/Ha1vFr
Apr 3rd
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Are you a power-napper?
Lifehacker Are you a power-napper? Do Mid-Afternoon Power Naps Actually Work? Last week I learned that a 15-20 minute nap between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00 PM could cure your afternoon slowness. Still skeptical, I thought I’d put it to the test and see if it really made a dif… View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HiMkro
Apr 3rd
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Dropped in a Box - Google vs Cloud
Vinoth Ragunathan Dropped in a Box - Google vs Cloud The question that keeps on popping, will Google’s cloud service kill off Dropbox for good? With no competition nearby, Dropbox will remain the king of cloud service. With fail attempts by Amazon’s “Cloud Drive”, which was poorly executed and a marketing disaster, and Apple’s iCloud which only works around the...
Apr 3rd
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Red Hat Open Cloud Tour #RHCTams #conference
Today I spend my day at the Red Hat Open Cloud Tour, this is what happened today: Just heard the opening by Rajiv Sodhi, who is here despite having a baby due any moment. Margaret J. Rimmler’s keynote was interesting. One of the key takeaways being openness RedHat customers should have the choice to remain portable and replace RedHat, if that is what they want. Torben Sebens’ talk on...
Apr 3rd
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Eric (@ericschabell) gave a Red Hat OpenShift...
Eric D. Schabell giving a Red Hat OpenShift Primer - get your business into the Cloud today! Great talk, with some links I will be posting in my full write up later today. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HiMjnj
Apr 3rd
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Red Hat Open Cloud Tour - Panel Discussion...
Red Hat Open Cloud Tour - Panel Discussion (continued) #rhctams Discussion on setting up your exit strategy, and creating a risk management profile.Dick says that disruptive technologies or opportunities, a lot of start ups are using the cloud technology to jump into new areas where large companies don’t yet have the agility. Margaret reminds us that Red Hat is not only working on...
Apr 3rd
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Panel discussion #rhctams - from Pakhuis De...
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Apr 3rd
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Red Hat Open Cloud Tour - Panel Discussion...
Red Hat Open Cloud Tour - Panel Discussion #rhctams +Peter Keijzer leads a panel discussion Margaret Rimmler, Dick van Galen, +Vincent Van der Kussen, Rob …, and Coen … from Accenture.Discussion focuses on the paradigm shift which cloud solutions are causing in IT departments and that the business is more advanced. Coen mentions a Dutch bank where the business is buying cloud...
Apr 3rd
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RedHat started handing out Panama hats... #RHCTams
After the last session RedHat started handing out red hats, which I assume are supposed to be Fedoras and look like Panama hats. We are all Red Hat now… ;) View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/Hcelxf
Apr 3rd
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Vincent Van der Kussen (@vincentvdk) from BTR...
Vincent Van der Kussen from BTR Services giving a customer perspective of RedHat Cloud/Enterprise Virtualization. General marketing initiated presentation, and some real technical details on implementation of RHEV. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/Hcekto
Apr 3rd
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Leverage An Intelligent Application Infrastructure...
Eric D. Schabell talk on Leverage An Intelligent Application Infrastructure for Competitive Advantage focuses on a scalable, portable, flexible, and stable platform. Quote: It’s Magic, at least I think it’s magic. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HiMj6P
Apr 3rd
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Unlocking the Value of Open Cloud #RHCTams
Torben Sebens’ talk on Unlocking the Value of Open Cloud was interesting, proposing 4 models for delivery in the cloud, with the main focus on PaaS and IaaS delivery on top of which a SaaS can be build with JBoss Rupert Holzbauer’s Building your SAP Cloud on premise and beyond with Red Hat and HP turned out not to be about SAP thank goodness. Dick van Galen discuss the...
Apr 3rd
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Having fun at the @redhat Cloud Tour. #RHCTams
Having fun at the Redhat Open Cloud Tour. Just heard the opening by Rajiv Sodhi, who is here despite having a baby due any moment.  Margaret J. Rimmler’s keynote was interesting. One of the key takeaways being openness RedHat customers should have the choice to remain portable and replace RedHat, if that is what they want. You can follow me here, on twitter (@webhat_links) or the...
Apr 3rd
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App mock-up #shopping
For a friend I made a mock up of a shopping app for Android. Proof of Concept: Shopper App I often get people ask me to develop phone applications based on an idea and with little other input besides the idea itself. I usually ask them to write me a proposal and send that to me, knowing …. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source:...
Apr 2nd
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Agile, Scrum and Kanban job trends
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Apr 2nd
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Have fun with scrum... #ganesh
Having some fun with scrum… Scrum Masters as Sri Ganesha’s pundits #agile #xp You would probably not associate a god from the Indian pantheon with an Agile methodological, and there are many things that can be learned for Scrum masters from Ganesh. In Scrum the Scrum Master …. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/Ha1vFr
Apr 2nd
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Grinberg: Linux on an 8-bit micro?
Grinberg: Linux on an 8-bit micro? It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt (“init=/bin/bash” kernel command line). Then 4 more hours to boot up the entire Ubuntu (“exec init” and then login).Draw your own conclusion… Grinberg: Linux on an 8-bit micro? [LWN.net] On his blog, Dmitry Grinberg writes about getting Linux to run on an 8-bit microcontroller. In...
Apr 2nd
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Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in ISP...
Interesting. Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in ISP Networks RFC 6561 This document contains recommendations on how Internet Service Providers can use various remediation techniques to manage the effects of malicious bot infestations on computers used by their subscribers. Internet users with infected computers are exposed to risks such as loss of personal data and...
Apr 2nd
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Trifork reputation damaged by cover up
You would think Trifork would have a reputation to uphold, since they work for the Danish Government with very sensitive healthcare data of Danish citizens. Not only are they violating the Eventbrite TOS - trying to defraud them - they are also covering up the evidence. I guess everybody plays cover your ass after being caught with their hand in the cookie jar. #gotoamsterdam #gotocon GOTO...
Apr 2nd
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Do you know what happens on the #internet in just...
Intel Do you know what happens on the #internet in just one minute? View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HhaoGZ
Apr 2nd
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Einstein's Proof of E=mc² #video
Per Buer cats, cats, cats, cats, cats, e=mc^2. Einstein’s Proof of E=mc² Ever wonder how Einstein proved E=mc²? This is how.Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein’s Birthday! To celebrate, we’ll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source:...
Apr 2nd
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Nonstartr, A Startup Pitch Generator
Scott Beale Nonstartr, A Startup Pitch Generator Nonstartr, A Startup Pitch Generator Nonstartr is a handy startup pitch generator by Andrew Cedotal and Alexandra Leo. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post » Image source: http://bit.ly/HGxFWU
Apr 2nd
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Writing for Social, Defending for Court (via...
As I revisited my own words, I was comforted to see they were not only accurate, but mirrored my testimony and helped answer the questions. I was intrigued to see the mix of content coming from LinkedIn, Google+ and Quora as forming the exhibit summary for the case, and glad that my honest and direct approach to social networking meant I didn’t have to explain away any hyperbole, sarcasm or...
Apr 2nd