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Is This a Phising Link?

Jun 25, 08 2:01 AM

https://bankofamerica.vbv.cyota.com

What do you think? Would any sensible bank create a credit card verification website that looks like this bank’s web site but it is actually cyota.com?

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What goes around, comes around

Jun 13, 08 1:42 PM


1950 – Velorex


2008 – BMW

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When in Boston

Jun 12, 08 3:33 PM

I am in Boston today and so tuned my iTunes to Pixies and Dresden Dolls…

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Hertz knows how to “take” the reservation

Jun 11, 08 3:28 PM

They just don’t know how to “hold” the reservation. And that’s really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them… Jerry Seinfeld, The Alternate Side

When I came to Hertz in Boston on Monday evening there was no car waiting for me and the line queued all the way outside of the Hertz building. And so I went back to the airport and took a taxi. But again, I was not frustrated…

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Productivity Boost @ Good Data

Jun 6, 08 12:32 PM

A few days ago I wrote about the rising cost of software development in the Czech Republic (and I am sure similar situation exists in many parts of the world). The only action we can take to compensate for the increase is to double the productivity of our developers.

John Sviokla suggests here: that a firm add an additional screen for all its customer service workers and you can see below that in a month’s time, the time per call decreased from about three minutes and fifty seconds down to three minutes and twenty seconds – a 12% improvement — with no additional training or change in the work load or work design.

And this is why we are giving today an additional 24 inch monitor to every employee at Good Data…

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Close Encounter With a Mac

Jun 4, 08 2:03 PM

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will start on Monday and it brings me back the memory of my first encounter with the Mac:

In the spring of 1999 we finished a version of Netbeans for Mac. My Netbeans team worked on it with some friends from Apple and they invited me to present the IDE at their upcoming “meeting with developers”. I did know what to expect and so a few days later I showed up at the conference center in San Jose. To my surprise there were 2500 people in the audience. It was actually the second WWDC – a small event from today’s perspective.

My presentation was part of Java keynote and was supposed to build a small Java app in front of the audience. I never used Mac before and so I was struggling a bit with a single button mouse and the UI of an iMac. Fortunately everything worked, Netbeans did not crash but I guess I was the only presenter at the WWDC keynote ever who had never used Mac before…

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