Tracon III I spent most of my yesterday attending Tracon. Tracon is a yearly convention here in Tampere, this was the third time it was organized. Tracon is mostly about anime, manga and role-playing games. In the first two Tracon’s, I don’t…
Use Face-to-Face Interactions to Get More from LinkedIn [Networking]
Jason Alba, author of I’m on LinkedIn — Now What?, gives Wired’s How-To Wiki advice on how to use LinkedIn for something other than esteem-boosting connection counting. One of the keys is stepping away from the monitor if you want to make contact with […]
Avoid Impulse Buys to Halt “Shopping Momentum” [Shopping]
You’ve probably proved this theory to yourself and groaned about it, but researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business can prove it—buying one item reduces the amount of deliberation that goes into buying the next item, and the next one, and so on. In […]
Samsung’s Vivace Shadow and Neo-Forte Air Conditioners Kill Germs [Gadgets]
Having an air conditioner running during the summer while we’re sitting naked on our leather chairs is luxurious enough, but an air conditioner that also kills germs? That’s just plain opulent. Samsung’s Vivace Shadow and Neo-Forte (black and white) air conditioners do just […]
CaseLearns: 2008 Spring Semester Classes Registration is now open for spring classes at CaseLearns. Whether you’re building your first Web site, adding a podcast to your blog or just want to learn something fun, CaseLearns has a number of options available.
Classes take place in Kelvin Smith Library
Registration is now […]
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IT Cost Containment: The Power Benefits of Virtualization In my previous posting, I talked about some of the direct hard cost benefits associated with adopting a virtualized server infrastructure. A TechRepublic reader correctly pointed out that there are also a number of other costs benefits, direct and indirect, hard and soft, to […]
WordPress Plugin Releases for 2/21 Custom Function Widgets This plugin allows you create widgets for plugins which only provide you with hooks, useful if you have loads of plugins which require you to manually alter your theme files for inclusion. Release Page | Download CodeShield This plugin escapes text inside code tags such that all […]
Mabinogi Open Beta Starts March 5th [Beta]
Eee! Singing sheep! Nexon’s not-new-but-new-to-the-US MMORPG Mabinogi is moving to open beta as of this coming Wednesday. The Harvest Moon-meets-MMORPG has already been through a closed beta and pre-open beta test run, apparently to a good response. You can sign up […]