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Town & Country Resources: Hire Nannies, Newborn Specialists, Housekeepers, On-Call and Temporary Services, Personal Assistants, Chefs and Estate Professionals 1.0 (Windows)

For over 25 years, Town & Country Resources has provided San Francisco Bay Area families with the ultimate professional solution for hiring top-quality childcare and household staff to ensure your family and home are safe and well cared for. We understand your needs for household support change as your family...

Tags: Staffing, San Francisco, Microsoft Windows, Palo Alto, Town & Country Resources

Software downloads 2008-12-27

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McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market

Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Perks for all workers: remote/metro, small/large firms, etc.

Leveling the playing field for workers' perks I’m on the board of a firm with operations throughout the United States. About half of their workforce and plants are in major metropolitan areas while the other half are in some pretty remote areas. Management is challenged to find...

Tags: Employee, Worker, Next Jump, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Works of Honor de Balzac. FREE Author's biography & works in the trial 10.2 (Mobile)

List of Works by Genre and Title List of Works in Alphabetical Order Honore de Balzac BiographyAbout and NavigationList of Works by Genre and TitleLa Comdie Humaine :: Novels :: Short Stories ::PlaysLa Comdie Humaine:Scenes From Private Life:The Ball at Sceaux Translated By Clara Bell The Purse Translated by Clara...

Tags: Paris, Mobile, MobileReference, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Shame on you, Facebook!

Shame on you, Facebook!The Double Standards of the Western WorldIf Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten prints caricatures of holy prophet Muhammad, it is "FREEDOM OF SPEECH". If facebook allows holocaust denial, it is SHAMEFUL. How CIVILIZED is the world with such double standards we live in!Free speech for me but not for...

Tags: Facebook!, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

America's greenest town?

America's greenest town?Lies about climate and 'global warming'.....ENOUGH already, this is the biggest SCAM of thecentury, it is NOT real it is about controland taxing people.All praise the Climate gods Al Gore & Oboma theKenya Usurper....That's very great!Will it have solar panels for the buildings and houses? What are the...

Tags: welfare

Discussion threads 2009-04-19

Lawmaker wants Google Maps to blur certain buildings

Lawmaker wants Google Maps to blur certain buildingsThe Mumbai Attackers did NOT use Google Street ViewAny argument involving the Mumbai attacks is completely specious. Whatever the Mumbai attackers used, it could not have been any more detailed than an overhead satellite image. Google Street View is NOT available for India.Although...

Tags: Dude, Google Inc., Google Maps, Google Street View

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base

Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military baseThis isn't news.It's par for the course.RE: Virus hits nearly 75% of systemsHave these people not heard of Linux or Mac OS X?What these reports don't tell you...Is that the great majority of these infected systems are simply email stations for...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, military base, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-11-29

Same old, same old control-freak Apple: they'll be "gatekeeper" for third-party iPhone apps

Same old, same old control-freak Apple: they'll be "gatekeeper" for third-party iPhone appsPhones should be...[url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to anything[/url]Thank god that Android is coming. This will help force the others to openup!!RE: Same oldThank f__king god. Last thing we need is every wannabe programmer/hacker nerd with a hex chart thinking they are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Same Old Same Old, Apple iPod Touch

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle

Fellow blogger, Larry Dignan, loaned me his Amazon Kindle so that I could look at it from an Ed Tech perspective (thanks, by the way, Larry - I promise I'm not downloading the complete works of Neal Stephenson and charging them to your Amazon account). Is this yet another...

Tags: Larry Dignan, E-book, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?

Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?DRM the real problemDRM and endless copyright are the real problem. The books at Project Gutenberg will never go out of print. They have already bee dublicated on hundreds of web sites and thousands, if not millions of devices.Only...

Tags: Digital media, environmentalism, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Is your district ready for a New Tech High School?

In my home town, a pretty typical Midwestern college town I suppose, our school district is in the process of establishing a New Tech High School.   The concept has been around since 1999.  Here is what the New Technology Foundation has to say: New Technology Foundation NTF™ was established in 1999 as...

Tags: Concept, High School, New Technology Foundation, Productivity, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Networking, Internet, Marc Wagner

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Markets need good information

Markets need good informationI agreeI should note, however, that market participants, particularly vendors, rarely have as much appreciation for the free market as theorists do. More often, it is accepted as an acceptable alternative to having the market rigged against them. A market rigged in one's own favor...

Tags: Vertical industries, toilet seat, Microsoft Corp., government

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

The sinking dollar and offshoring

The sinking dollar and offshoringWon't make any differenceTo a well-run shop, the [u]cost[/u] of engineering services comes a very distant second to the value received: delays or low-quality work cost so much more than a salary that it's a sucker's bet.The problem is, most corporate management either has no idea...

Tags: Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Protectionism, offshoring, salary, Chinese Government, Microsoft Corp., job

Discussion threads 2007-07-25

Japanese schools may convert aging computers to Linux

Japanese schools may convert aging computers to LinuxIn Venezuela, are violators of a Presidential decree...... liable for arrest and fines or imprisonment? That's the single most compelling argument in favor of Linux use that I've encountered. Shows that persuasion would be expected to fail.Linux: it's better than...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, computer, Linux, government, Microsoft Corp., Chavez

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

The NAB battles the XM / Sirius merger

The NAB battles the XM / Sirius mergerLocal broadcasting is a thicket.For example, AT&T had a problem when the company attempted to gain approval from state legislatures without meeting a mandate for carrying local television stations. As I understand it, the company didn't want to take the time. ...

Tags: Satellite radio, Local Broadcasting, merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Sirius, satellite

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein - Transcript

Dan Farber: Chris thanks for joining me.Chris Vein: It's my pleasure. Dan Farber: How did you end up in this role as CIO of San Francisco? Did you have a background in being a CIO?Chris Vein: Very accidentally, is how I came into my role.Dan Farber: So you are the...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-03-19

San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein - Transcript

Dan Farber: Chris thanks for joining me. Chris Vein: It's my pleasure. Dan Farber: How did you end up in this role as CIO of San Francisco? Did you have a background in being a CIO? Chris Vein: Very accidentally,...

Tags: CIO, City, County, Department, San Francisco, Difficulty, Government, Internet, Productivity, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Strategy, Wireless, Networking, Management, ZDNet Editor

Blog posts 2007-03-19

Eight nations set to get $150 laptops

Eight nations set to get $150 laptopsWhat is this, ego or stupidity?There are millions of serviceable computers running XP available at US$150- just have a look at eBay. But instead of recycling the computers and allowing the poor to join the rest of the world, we need to waste...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, computer, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-02-12

Linux Foundation to be more like Apache

Linux Foundation to be more like ApacheWhat speaks for LinuxPolling software makes it easy to limit your terms beyond all reason. I have a hard time conceiving of a Linux which can function without GNU tools and I have a hard time conceiving of a Linux which can function...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Apache Software Foundation, Linux, Debian, Linux Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-01-23