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Apple’s “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads (starring John Hodgman and Justin Long in the US) are running in other markets too, with local actors playing the Mac and the PC. I don’t speak a word of Japanese, which is one reason I may find the Japanese ads the best. The UK ads are pretty good, too.
As a language geek, I can’t tell you how much I dig this story: Using grammar rules alongside test tubes, biologists may have found a promising new way to fight nasty bacteria, including drug-resistant microbes and anthrax. Studying a potent type of bacteria-fighters found in nature, called…
Computerworld reviews Google Docs and Spreadsheets, formerly known as Writely, and concludes “good concept, but far from ready for prime time”: Looking for a free word processor and spreadsheet? Google’s newly released Docs & Spreadsheets suite that offers just that, but in this case you get what…
A sobering report issued last month by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Performance Center criticized the U.S. government’s ability to develop sound economic policy due to the extreme lack of data available concerning the offshoring of American jobs. The MIT report was…
Pressured by foreign competition and impatient domestic investors… employers broke the post-war “work contract” with employees under which they had shared the gains and risks of the post-war economy. As a result, more of the risks were shifted onto employees. Under the old contract… “workers…
After a “meh” experience with a set of Berlitz CDs and workbooks, I’m embarking on a new language-learning adventure. Did an extended online demo of the Rosetta Stone language software last week, and was very impressed with it; have just popped for a couple of Latin American Spanish teaching…
Lately, I have been thinking about a couple of management practices that seem (based on my experience of more than 18 years in government) to occur more frequently in government settings and to have significant detrimental effects on employees and the organization. The first one is keeping…
If you respond to RFPs or have any part in the proposal writing process, the Shipley Associates Proposal Guide for Business and Technical Professionals will be worth every penny of the $60 you pay for it (Amazon price as of September 2006.) It is not a tutorial or a “how to” guide; rather, it’s a…
The Adobe® FrameMaker® 7.2 Application Packs for Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and S1000D enable developers to fully evaluate and enhance the XML authoring and publishing capabilities within FrameMaker using two leading open standards. Both application packs are companion pieces to…
The last year has seen the first appearance of online word processing applications such as ajaxWrite, ThinkFree Online, Writely, and Zoho Writer. Online office applications are an unproven product in a new market. To see how worthwhile they were, I compared their interfaces, basic and advanced…