October 2007 Archives
I am not an economist so I don't understand how inflation can be going up in the Eurozone at the same time the dollar is decreasing in value, and the exchange rate should make goods from Asia cheap.
In addition today's article, FT.com / World - Eurozone inflation hits two-year high, states that the 13 region economy is slowing and economic sentiment indicators declining. If someone understands this dynamic, please let me know.
Since I have chosen Movable Type as my blogging platform, for better or worse, I am on a personal quest to master the code, so this post in Learning Movable Type, is extraordinarily helpful for understanding the logic of the side bars: Working with Movable Type 4.0 Templates: Sidebar | Templates | Learning Movable Type. It is not easy for a lay person like me, but it is manageable.
This is a link to a nice free "web school" for tutorials you need to understand web development, from basic HTML and XHTML to more advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP. It is a good reference for those of us that don't do this very often: W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
This article provides tips on how to write a standardized bibliography for academic papers.
This is an Outlook tip from Lifehacker, but its really good, so I wanted to post it.
Outlook Tip: Create Quick Appointments with Outlook 2007
Outlook users: Instantly turn your Outlook 2007 tasks into appointments by dragging and dropping tasks to your To-Do Bar calendar. Doing so creates a new appointment with most of the important information—including date—already filled out. You've been able to generate new appointments by dragging and dropping emails or tasks to the Outlook calendar for quite some time (an extremely handy shortcut if you weren't already aware of it), but the new To-Do Bar streamlines the process even more by allowing users to drag the appointment straight to a day. It's not much of a change from the norm, but we've never highlighted drag and drop appointment creation in Outlook, and for those of you hooked (or chained, as it may be) to Outlook, it's one of the program's most convenient features.
The Times Online published one of the better articles on allowing employees to use Web 2.0 tools for work related purposes. The concern is that employers will have access to personal details about your life outside work that may in some way damage your relationship with your employer. You click through to the article here: Let your employees use Facebook — it's less risky than you think. From the author, Mark Watt's, perspective their is little potential harm and lots of opportunity to have better relationships at work and with colleagues that you could potentially do business with. There also is little legal risk for employers.
I am a big fan of ClearContext, a program that organizes you inbox for you . Deva Hazarika runs ClearContext and writes a blog called Email Dashboard. In a recent post Deva reports on a post by Robert Scoble on the utility of email, and I agree. I use all the other modes of communication discussed, email, twitter, facebook, IM, but the most considered dialog is still conducted through email. Sometimes a conversation in a blog is quite rich, but still a telephone and email provide the most context. The Web 2.0 tools have not demonstrated that they have the staying power of the earliest innovations on the web.
