It’s great to just casually collect information, bookmark something here and there, add a few tags. Highlight things in your Google Reader, add a note on Netvibes, store it on Secondbrain, read a few ...

Business is about process, typically starting with a customer calling, then proceeding through a sequence of tasks and activities ending with the delivery of some value.No process exists unless there is a framework. And for that reason business have a framework, an old and proven one. Here's a condensed list of it's most important parts and how they work, in no particular order:Meetings:So we can get together, listen and pounce on presentations or remarks made ...

The much-maligned SATs predict college graduation, writes Peter Salins, a SUNY-Stony Brook political science professor, in the New York Times. Some SUNY campuses decided to rely more heavily on SAT scores in admissions; others continued to rely on high-school grade-point averages. Those that stressed SATs saw gains in graduation rates: Old Westbury doubled its (pathetically low) six-year completion rate of 18 percent. At the GPA-centric campuses, graduation rates declined. Discriminations asked Salins about socioeconomic factors ...

While at Sun’s Menlo Park campus recently, I had the chance to talk with Sun’s Tim Cramer: Developing OpenSolaris & New Features in 11.08 We first talked with each other about the development process of OpenSolaris and went over some feature highlights for the 11.08 release: OpenSolaris 11.08 Demo Then, Tim showed us a quick demo of some of the more interesting new features in OpenSolaris 11.08: Disclosure: Sun is a client and sponsored these ...

Imagine this, you're out driving... [Reality references in brackets at the bottom of the post]But the windshield is not there, instead you have a standardised set of reports [1] coming up on a "dashboard" in front of you [2].The reports are supposed to give you an idea as to where you are heading and what dangers might lurk, or jump out from the kerb.The reporters are not in the cabin, they're under the bonnet somewhere, ...

You do not have to go on a plane to be a missionary. Having a picture with an African child does not give you brownie points from God.Being "grateful" for what you have is NOT the point of ministry.Your life should be an act of worship- every part of your life.

Having written a fair bit recently about Agile/Scrum, I found the following post provided an interesting perspective. The Agile Disease by Luke Halliwell I don’t agree with everything the Luke wrote, but a lot of his points make sense. A lot of the benefit of Scrum is handled if people simply use common sense with whatever process they use. I’m happy to say that at my current company, we just put out a major release ...

Microsoft offers zero percent financing on Dynamics ERP and CRM. Given the economy and the credit crunch, it must make a lot of sense, right? Not really. In ERP, licensing the product is far from being the most significant cost. Training, implementation, change management, additional hardware, additional software (like database), third party software components that goes with the new package (add ons are common addition to ERP implementations) make the money you spend with Microsoft ...

Visitors can embark on a virtual 3-D tour of the Eternal City's monuments, streets, and buildings as scholars believe they appeared in 320 A.D.

From Katie Noonan – In recent months, I have become a major Twitter fan. Initially like many people, I was unsure how best to use Twitter, or what, if any, purpose there was in posting an update with a max of 140 characters. Now however, I am completely onboard the Twitter train and offer the following reasons why you should get onboard too:This Just In…Twitter has given new meaning to the term “breaking news.” When ...

25个最知名的Social Media博主们日前发现，他们的电脑桌旁边多了一样东西：三箱个人装的百事可乐（每箱5罐），与众不同的是这其中一箱的罐子上的LOGO与包装设计是全新的。这批被称为“PEPSI 25”的博主们是百事可乐新罐装项目在Social Marketing中的“试验田”。 客观地讲，由爱德曼的数字营销组所策动的这次试验，还是相当费心的：他们递给博主的不仅有新包装的产品，还有与之对比的旧包装，甚至包括了一盘介绍PEPSI换罐历史的DVD，以确保博主们对事件的背景与意义有足够的了解。 但是，百事的用心却绝不是为了向博主们推销可乐，或是仅仅为了多几篇博文的报道。事实上，这是很有策略性思考的一次试验行为，而博客只是这项计划的一小部分。爱德曼与PEPSI想真正了解的是如何在Social Media的世界中开展对话、这样的对话会有怎样的传播轨迹、会有怎样的反响。 这次实验的核心部分，是爱德曼与PEPSI在FriendFeed上以真实身份开设的一个名为”PEPSI COOLER”独立房间，用以聚合所有关于PEPSI的话题讨论的评论与博客。开宗明义，“PEPSI COOLER”将自己的功效定义成同网民们一起探索并塑造PEPSI品牌在Social Media世界中的未来。通过这个ROOM，用户可以FEED进来源自不同Social media的评论与内容。而通过这些FEEDS，PEPSI可以观察并分析自己在Socail World中所引起的讨论与对话，是在什么类型的媒体、以什么类型的形式、用什么样的角度与语气展开的，而自己所释放的诱因，会通过什么样的轨迹进行传播。 PEPSI 25的项目，马上就在“PEPSI COOLER”上得到反应，最新的FEED更新，大都与其相关。而至于这25个博客本身的反应也相当有趣，很值得分析一下。首先，几乎所有的博主们都刊出了相关事实的图片与文章。由于PEPSI声明是经过反复挑选与认真考量才选中这25位知名博客的，无形中这就变成了一种稀缺资源，能入选收到新罐装的人，大都会主动站出来说：“好吧，我就是那25位最有影响力的博客之一。PEPSI小样呢，非得把人家拉进来。”嘿嘿，这样的心理动机下，很难不主动讨论此事。而且，PEPSI 25的名单很快不经意地“流传”于网上，那些名列单上却没有发文的名博，估计也很难坐得稳了。其次，大部分名博们都欲说还羞地表扬了一下PEPSI，说这样尝试值得鼓励，就算不给个优吧，良还是没问题的。当然了，身为Social Media的意见领袖，很难不对一个百年知名品牌的有礼相待颇感欣慰的。在对Soical Media的重视与探求上，大家的立场是一致的。既然是同道者，就不太可能恶语相向、吹毛求疵了。最后，包括这25人在内的许多博客，都将话题集中了在了这样一个焦点上：PEPSI是依据什么标准选出这25人的呢? 被选上的，做无事状耸耸肩（其实心里美着呢）；没被选上的，倒也没有醋意大发，不过还是难免发些感叹与迷惑。。不过，无论如何，话题还是颇引发了不少的回复与评论，相当程度上也促动了PEPSI品牌与Social Media明星们的对话。 Conversation并非一个干枯的名词，它是每天实际发生的鲜活的生动过程。如果企业或品牌想真正加入这一过程，首先要做的并非是一咬牙一跺脚闭着眼往里跳，那样估计只会引来嘘声一片。聪明的企业，尤其是传统的、对Social Media缺乏先天性亲近感的企业，正确的做法是在可控的范围内试验，以尽可能量化的分析，摸清楚Social World的价值环境，然后再逐步确定自己的策略与行动。 “别着急，用心去听去感受，用脑去分析去判断，你就一定能在Social Media的热带丛林中，找到属于自己的安乐之土。”这是百事可乐给我们的启示。

It looks as though the problem with mmap() is that the filesystem doesn’t support making mmap()ed files writable which prevents Dalvik as currently implemented from optimizing its Dex file, which prevents it from starting. A workaround for this is to provide Dalvik with an optimized Dex file we prepared earlier. If you do then you get this

Environmental art in Finland by Jonna Pohjalainen. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)