60 second strategy

This week's : 1 - Minute Strategies:

* Slow them down on voice mail. In the rush to leave a voice mail message, people often jumble their words. One word from you - "slowly" - reminds callers to speak carefully. Example: " Please leave a clear message and slowly say your phone number so that I can return your call."
* 3 easy ways to reduce computer eyestrain.
1. Position papers the same distance away as your monitor, so your eyes don't constantly refocus.
2. If you forget to blink while concentrating, keep artificial "tears" handy to lubricate your eyes.
3. Clean the screen.

B'lore tough on cybercrime ?

The governor of Karnataka State in southern India is reported to be close to passing the new law. New regulations forces cybercafes provide police with names and addresses of all their customers.

What is the primary motive behind this ?? Are they saying that too much hacking going on from these public booths ??

RFIDv3.0

The Buzzzzzzzzzzzzz... is on !!!

Whew...this is flowing in like crazy...Titled "don't look at me as I look at you"

It's apparently okay for RFID tag promoters to watch you apply lipstick from 750 miles away, but not for a privacy advocate to keep an eye on companies using the pesky technology

To date, Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense have been among the most vocal backers of the technology.


/pd

RFIDv2.0

Nortel/CA

What da F$%# ???

"Nortel plans to lay off 3,250 employees" -Brampton, Ontario, company also will eliminate about 650 positions in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and 250 elsewhere in the world

The disclosures came in a regular biweekly filing to the Ontario Securities Commission.

The work plan is expected to deliver cost savings of about $500 million in 2005 and greater savings in subsequent years, according to the filing. But it will also bring charges to Nortel's income statements of about $220 million for layoffs and $230 million for real estate. About 35 percent of those charges should be incurred in 2004 and the remainder in 2005, according to the company statement.

1,400 employees in the U.S. and about 950 in Canada, with those employees to be notified by the end of June 2005,

/pd

RFIDv2.0

RFIDv1.0 was published here. This is the 2nd in line strategy offering.

"Interest is high -- and business opportunities may be there for the picking -- but when it comes to figuring out how to apply RFID to their midmarket customers, solution providers remain largely on their own".

"Catcher in the rye"
As a result of ABC's effort, the Microsoft Business Solutions will include RFID support for upcoming versions of Axapta, Great Plains and Navision.

Alternative Pathway
Sun RFID offering for Partners will be available in midOctober.

Needs Analysis proves that there is no STD status for RSS protocol suite.

MicroSoft becomes human

Interesting commentary by iMedia.

Channel 9 was started MArch 2004 and is now an innovations paradigm.

What is the start of this paradigm in the open community ??

Blog post not appearing !!

Why is there Repudiation time for updating blog !! or is it buggy blogger.com ??

I was wacking off from free blog hosting to sftp hosting. Converted my defa settings. Setup ftp zone and pwd so that blogger can publish to sftp.

Shit happended. Rolled back to free hosting by blogger. Tried again!!

Mutliple Refusals on publication local to blogger. Got ftp error blah blah.. Got flustered, nearly deleted my blog. Then reset setting. Publication and reindexing worked. But blog entry not see on Previous post or appears.

Yet, I can see my entry indexed as well as accessible !! Any clue points ???

/pd

1st call for Toronto Blogger

Calling all bloggers from Toronto/GTA areas. Who are interested in a BloggerCon. Send in details either email or comment here.

Accquired New Domain

Just acquired a new domain

Spontoues Thought Flickr'ing!!!

Date :Sept.29-04 - Toronto
Current Schedule :5:45PM . Status : Strategy offerings
Next Schedule : 7.00PM . Status : Geek Dinner / Moblog'ing !!

I did not make my next schedule with the famour blogger from NYC !! Pity eh ?? My wisdom was in the office, but my heart was out there.. Me was dissapointed !!

So I ask myself, WHY dissapointment !!

Well I had this concept that I wanted to create spontues thought flickr'ing amongst the blog community. Throw a seed of thought, along with a single leased email, and then everyone sends in their thoughts. Now, each entry becomes a seperate blog and that creates a harverst of thoughts ...for the community...!!! Something like an orchestrated world thought flickr'ing!!

Geeeeee.. pretty wacky biz eh ?? How to do it, I dunna me is still a newbie !! Anyway, thats what I wanted to talk about. SO, caught up with this Idea, that I aquired this.

Randy, this is a topic for our geek dinner !! :)-