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Canada'ss BC Hydro Ties Learning to Performance: Two years into the adoption of a blended learning solution to train its field personnel, Vancouver-based electric utility BC Hydro is already recognized as a best practice operation. Hearing that brings a chuckle to Olivier Schittecatte, the company's manager of training and development for field services. One reason for the...; Tags: Performance, BC Hydro, Training, American Society For Training & Development, Workforce Management, Human Resources; Case studies

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Far out! Another power management option for my Mac: Far out! Another power management option for my MacFaronics is also based in Vancouver, BC... with affiliated office in San Francisco. The company's founder is also my next door neighbor.; Tags: Far-Out, power management option, power management, Apple Macintosh, Faronics; Discussion threads 2008-07-06
Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4: Something about getting a new neck earlier this spring made me start thinking about how to change my life to make America a better place. Here a few that you can try to make the country better over the Fourth of July weekend: 1.) Turn off your...; Tags: Phone, PC, Cell Phone, Computer, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-07-02
People lived in Paris 10,000 years ago!: The theme of this post is slightly off focus of this blog. But it's not often that archeologists make an exciting discovery in my own town, Paris, France. In fact, these archeologists have found that human groups of hunter-gatherers were living in Paris around 7600 BC during the Mesolithic period....; Tags: Paris, River, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-30
SCE adds to its solar energy portfolio in deal with eSolar: Everything around me is wilting today, including me. Therefore it seems apt for me to search around for something solar-related to write about. Found this quick update from Southern California Edison, which bills itself as the leading purchaser not provider of solar energy, buying about 90 percent...; Tags: Tower, Solar Energy, mW, SCE, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-09

Live Webcast: Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Business Continuity BC and Disaster Recovery DR practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based...; Tags: Webcast, Failover, Continuous Data Protection, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management; Webcasts 2008-05-21
Sixty Five Million And One BC (zip): Sixty Five Million And One BC is a platform adventure about a bunch of velociraptors trying to save the world from a comet. You see, around about 65 million years ago an enormous hunk of rock, 10 km across, hurtled down from space and smacked rudely into what eventually became...; Tags: Bouncing Fox Productions, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-21
StatoilHydro Web Site Reaches Out to 4 Million External Stakeholders on Day One: Based in Norway, two central players in the global oil industry - Statoil and Norsk Hydro oil and gas division - planned to merge businesses. They required a Web site to promote the new brand to key stakeholders, including customers and investors. A team of Statoil developers, along with Microsoft...; Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Channel Management, Team Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Management; Case studies 2008-05-14
Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company: Thermal testing. Courtesy Industrial Nanotech. Energy costs are now serious business for industries, office managers, and home owners across the world. Buildings account for over half of the energy use in the U.S. and a fair portion of that is for heating and...; Tags: Insulation, Clean Technology, European Union, Nansulate, Energy Cost, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable: Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separableWind Kills tooWind turbines kill birds too. So fossil fuels aren't the only bird-unfriendly source of energy out there.There are always trade-offs. People who let housecats roam free are responsible for more bird deaths than any oil company anywhere. ...; Tags: clean technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-05
Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Business Continuity BC and Disaster Recovery DR practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based...; Tags: Failover, Continuous Data Protection, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management; Webcasts 2008-04-23
3D Olympic Stadium Screensaver (exe): The original Olympic Games were started in 776 BC in Olympia. It were a series of athletic competitions held between various city-states of Ancient Greece. The first of the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. FCreate festive atmosphere around your screen! Be...; Tags: 3D, Olympic Games, Screensaver, Clock-desktop; Software downloads 2008-04-18
Hip Hop Radio (gadget): Get direct links to 27 of the Best Hip Hop & Rap Radio Stations, streaming music 24 Hrs a day. And if that's not enough we threw in the Hip Hop slide show by amazon.com 400 + cd covers. Listen to these hot stations online : Hot 95.5, AR USA...; Tags: Radio, Sidebar Gadgets, Thin Clients, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-04-10
Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?: Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?give me IntelI would pay more for the Intel Q6600 because it has been out in the market longer with no serious issues unlike the phenom processor.RE: Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?We...; Tags: Processors, Phenom, quad, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., dual-core; Discussion threads 2008-03-13
Senet (dmg): If you like board games, you'll love Senet. This exciting game was a favorite of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt because of its unique combination of strategy and luck. Senet was arguably the world's first board game, created in ancient Egypt in roughly 3,500 BC. In its time, Senet was...; Tags: Board, Jeff Hanson, Corporate Governance, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-02-20
ShiJing (The Book of Odes) (exe): It consists of 311 poems (6 without text) dating from the Zhou Dynasty (1027-771 BC) to the Spring & Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Geographically, these poems were collected from the area, which are now central China and the lower HuangHe Yellow River Valley of north China where Chinese civilization began...; Tags: China; Software downloads 2008-02-20
Ocean power: catching a wave but ahead of the curve: Wave power may eventually become a factor in providing electrical energy, but it isn't going to happen before we've all switched to flourescent or LED lighting. And it may not happen before we are paying $150 for a barrel of crude oil. Recently the US approved...; Tags: Investment, Engineering, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-02-19
HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on top: HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on topmust be a Microsoft haterSo if it was so superior, then why is it the first gen players from Toshiba can play all current movies while the first gen Blu's can not??? And why is it that stand alone Blu's don't match up to...; Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Java, media server, Blu, TV, DVD, HD-DVD; Discussion threads 2008-02-19
Black oil, white bears and the color of money: Map of polar bear populations, courtesy USGS and IFAW. [Click image to enlarge.] The auction's over and the feds may rake in nearly three billion dollars for leases on land nobody will ever see. Land in the new oil and gas leases is far...; Tags: Oil, Bear, Government, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-02-07
ShiJing (exe): Chinese literature begins with ShiJing Book of Odes, an anthology of songs, poems, and hymns. It consists of 311 poems (6 without text) dating from the Zhou Dynasty (1027-771 BC) to the Spring & Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Geographically, these poems were collected from the area which is now central...; Tags: China, Literature; Software downloads 2008-02-07