End of a legend

The myth that to delete data really securely from a hard disk you have to overwrite it many times, using different patterns, has persisted for decades, despite the fact that even firms specialising in data recovery, openly admit that if a hard disk is overwritten with zeros just once, all of its data is irretrievably lost....

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/news/112432

On 30 Sept. 2008 achieved best score against Reversi on my cellphone...I played with black, on level 'Good'.

Last lecture

RIP Randy!

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en

Better Reversi score

On 14 aug. 2008 achieved best score against Reversi on my cellphone...
I played with black, on level 'Good'.

Universe by Jonathan Harris

A fascinating representation of today's 'mythology', you must visit this site:

http://universe.daylife.com/

Better Than Free - or watch where the money goes

A very interesting article written by KEVIN KELLY.

"In short, the money in this networked economy does not follow the path of the copies. Rather it follows the path of attention, and attention has its own circuits. "

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly08/kelly08_index.html

Forty signs of rain

Just finished reading
http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Signs-Rain-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553585800

Should be read by all politicians and business men...

Reversi score

On 19 dec. 2007 achieved best score against Reversi on my cellphone...

I played with black, on level 'Good'.

Decide what you want your job to be about

Good advice from Penelope:

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/12/17/how-to-figure-out-which-tasks-you-can-ignore/

Quote:
"...the job of a CEO is to know what to blow off."

Remember this on next CAPEX meeting...

Computers in Management course on wiki steroids

Dr. Jerry Kane (Boston College) uses a wiki for his course and possible sets a new de facto standard:

http://www.eu.socialtext.net/cim/index.cgi?

Great ideea, see the attached files also...