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Today's Debate: Faith and health in competition: I started this week by asking if mental health was a middle-class luxury. It is. Many insurance plans don't cover it. I've probably spent over $100,000 on mental health services over the last decade, out of my own pocket. Were I not middle class I could not...; Tags: Faith, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-02
Today's Debate: Is mental health a middle-class luxury?: I'm off in search of mental health today, and I'll offer details on that later. But my search brings up an important point. What I've found is that, to many people, mental health is a luxury good. If it can't be dealt with through discipline, or denial,...; Tags: Faith, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-29
"IT is a Leap of Faith": Andrew McAfee made the following comment in a debate with Tom Davenport at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference currently taking place in Boston:"IT is a leap of faith and you are spending hard cold dollars in the short term on a set of nebulous benefits in the long term…"----- by Michael...; Tags: Faith, Cold Calling, Information Technology, Leap, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-06-18
BibleMan: A Fight for Faith demo (zip): Based on the best selling Bibleman adventure, A Fight for Faith lets kids help Bibleman, Biblegirl and Cypher battle the archvillain Wacky Protestor and his henchmen. Using educational Bible verses, exciting battle sequences, and puzzles, kids can move through nine challenging and educational levels as they join the Bibleteam in...; Tags: Faith, Fight, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2005-12-14

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SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city: "The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So spoke Terry Childs, San Francisco's jailed network administrator, to Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a spur-of-the-minute jailhouse meeting, according to SF Chronicle...; Tags: City, Lawyer, Computer, Productivity, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-23

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices: This is what I imagine: some technoslaves or computer software constantly peruses YouTube looking for infringements. It finds them and the music companies send YT an almost daily list of take-down notices per the DMCA. YouTube takes down. Problem being everything gets taken down...; Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Takedown, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-20
Adeona offers independent stolen laptop tracking: Sorry: hit "post" instead of "save"; this backend system will be the death of me. I first came across Adeona last year when I was doing some external research, and it's only really just come to light. Adeona is an independent system which doesn't rely on any...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Device, Laptop Computer, Adeona, Apple Mac OS X, Biometrics, Linux, Desktops, Notebooks, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?: Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone; Discussion threads 2008-07-15
Jerry Yang: Listen to ... Jerry Yang: Jerry Yang, poker player, AP News It's been a bad year for Jerry Yangs. The one everyone knows, the Stanford student who is a co-founder of Yahoo, is getting pistol-whipped by Google, founded by other Stanford students. Yet he refuses to...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Channel Management, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-10
Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS: Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...; Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-07
First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex: First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid IbexAny movement on the installer issueyou recently took up in a blog, Adrian ? I hope you'll stay on top of this one, not only with respect to [b]Ubuntu[/b], but also for other major distros....HenriThe Satanic theme is *not* part of 8.10...; Tags: Operating systems, Ubuntu, Satanic theme, Ubuntu 8.10, Satanic; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops: You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...; Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search: Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language searchYes, It is..I think it is a right move.. Google's monopoly over search comes from the fact it has a great software the search engine. That's it, plain and simple. Only if Microsoft can offer better search results, then it can compute with Google. Offering...; Tags: SEARCH, Powerset, natural-language search, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-01
Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?: Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?physics is not a fundamental application of mathsPhysics is the basis for understanding any physical phenomenon. I do not see any sense in studying biology w/o a strong physics curriculum, as w/o physics you will have a hard time understanding what...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, raw deal; Discussion threads 2008-06-30
Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?: A British study, as reported by the BBC has found that physics is not only being taught less and less by those who specialize in the subject, but also not emphasized outside of a general science curriculum. While the research is focused on the UK, it brings up some...; Tags: Physics, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-06-30
America's blocked labor policies: America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...; Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B; Discussion threads 2008-06-25
Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford: Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...; Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Bill G, personal computer revolution, Bill Gates, Billg, Henry Ford, modern day, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-25
Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up: Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing upSorry Dana, but you scewed upHi Dana,I totally agree that more transparency would be a good thing for Sun and its products and projects, and more openness would be the next big step. Beyond that I don't agree with much that you wrote here.>...; Tags: Team management, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Simon, non-development community, open source project, team, MySQL; Discussion threads 2008-06-24
What's triggers "gadget lust"?: What's triggers "gadget lust"?gadget lust vs. Dell and colorI think Dell would be better served by working on CRM rather than marketing. After my experience with Dell several years ago I've switched to hp and IBM / Lenovo. As far as color goes, my daughter the non tech...; Tags: Keyboards, Apple iPhone, Dell Computer Corp., trigger; Discussion threads 2008-06-20
Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupJust wait until Paypal gets hijackedSo far this has just been child's play. Sooner or later there's going to be some serious financial consequences, and not just for the site owners.RE: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupThat's all very well... but...; Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Photobucket, Turkish, hacking group, DNS Records, DNS, hacking; Discussion threads 2008-06-18