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  • links for 2007-11-12

    BBC NEWS | Technology | Social networkers warned of risk A quarter of the 11 million Britons who use social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook may be leaving themselves open to identity fraud. (tags: facebook identity internet socialnetworking networking security) ShareThis | ShareThis | Button for Websites ShareThis makes a WordPress plugin that…

  • "Lotus Notes/Domino is a dead product”

    Eric Mack makes some fantastic points in questioning some of IBM Lotus’ marketing efforts based on real experience out there in the Knowledge Management space in his post “Lotus Notes/Domino is a dead product”. I had stopped by to ask if their search technology could crawl a Notes/Domino database. At which point I was told…

  • The Maeslant barrier closed for the first time

    The Maeslant barrier closed for the first time

    I hadn’t heard of Rotterdam’s equivalent of the Thames Barrier, but after reading some news on the latest flood threats, found this on Flickr. Maeslant Barrier II Maeslant Barrier closed in the rain Maeslant Barrier closed in the sun All originally uploaded by dut97 Where some interesting details are included in the description: During water…

  • Giving better presentations

    Via Charles Robinson Tags: presentation skills, presenting

  • Another Victory!

    Late in posting this, but we had another regatta weekend last Saturday and Sunday where we came out on top! This one was the “III Trofeo de la Hispanidad” organised by the “Real Club Astur de Regartas“. We enjoyed two days of windy racing, 15-20 knots and waves, serious surfing with the kite downwind! The…

  • Quality of life!