2006 February

A few months ago, an industry mentor (Marc Andreessen) launched a company named Ning. Its mission: to be anything. Rather, to be a platform upon which you could do stuff that you normally can’t do on your own. I didn’t pay much attention to it until today, when I came up with an idea that [...]

HDClone Free Edition enables you to move the content from an entire hard drive to another, larger one. The program installs itself on a bootable floppy or CD, and includes its own operating system, so it runs completely independent from Windows.
Once HDClone has created the bootable floppy or CD for you, you can use [...]

You don’t have to be an expert to know that there are a lot of things involved in running a business, especially if you’re managing most of it by yourself. The laundry list of tasks in exceedingly long, and your day-to-day schedule is sure to be packed with a wide variety of stuff to accomplish. [...]

Janice writes:
I saw the Dateline NBC news story on Internet Predators and I am sufficiently concerned about the Internet in my house. What can I do to protect my children?
For any parent that did not see the Dateline NBC special To Catch A Predator III, I would highly recommend a visit to the MSNBC [...]

Without a doubt, this cogent exposition from scientists at JPL outlining a vision for the future of Mars Exploration is the Cool Video of the Week: with a new polar lander and life seeking rovers in the pipeline, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arriving on March 10, the invasion of outer cyberspace is sure to [...]

Removable media such as memory cards and removable disks can create boot delays, thereby increasing the amount of time it takes your computer to startup. Once you install XP, the problem apparently goes away. However, it is still good practice to remove CDs from the CD drives, memory cards, and so on from the computer [...]

I reflect on the one thing I would have done differently, and why I think it matters.
Listen to the podcast: If I Had to Do It All Over Again…
I sometimes wonder at how I got here. Not in the biological sense, I mean the long strange trip that ended up here… with Web sites like [...]

Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Co-Founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin today announced the launch of a pilot program to make holdings of the National Archives available for free online. This non-exclusive agreement will enable researchers and the general public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries [...]

The business world, for many years, was thought to be a man’s world. Women were expected to stay home and raise their many babies, keep the house clean, cook, that sort of thing.
Well, there were a number of women who decided that perhaps the business world wasn’t the exclusive domain of men after all. And [...]

If you’ve been listening to the show lately, you’ll have heard me exclaim that I was going to give up using Google for search for an entire week. So, I started yesterday - and it’s been a very painful experience thus far. Interesting, but painful. As I remarked in an earlier entry on the first [...]