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Here is a great entry on the “ins and outs of Twitter”
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/18/the-ins-and-outs-of-tweeting

This article includes some amazing examples of what you can do w/ Twitter, including:

• How to tweet your way out of jury duty
• How to tweet your way out of a job
• How to tweet your way into a job
• How to tweet your way into filling up alotted presentation time
• How to tweet your way into people not liking you anymore
• How to tweet your way into the stock market

Though it was recently criticized for some security flaws, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is now out and available for download.
This version is not very different from IE7 from the look and feel, but focuses on usability.

Download your copy: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=142198

More information at: www.officelabs.com

Based on this very interesting entry, it seems that there are 3 main reasons for IT project failures:

1. not enough governance
2. communication
3. collaboration

These reasons further highlight the need for the well-balanced and integrated role of IT within the organization, the open channels between IT and the business domains, and the consideration of projects, not simply as IT projects, but rather as Business projects!

I would like to believe that there is a need to apply the 5 Cs !

There are two ways of exerting one's strength:

one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up.

by Booker T. Washington

Can your car beat the Terrafugia Transition? Let’s see !

More pics and info available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1162910/Need-lift--Debut-flight-flying-car-road-sky-flick-switch.html

More info at: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-chrome-has-new-beta_17.html

Get it via the beta channel: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/index.html

Nice to see ULL on the map !

You may recall my previous post on Siftables, well here is a great article presenting a series of amazing videos on Reactables, WaveTable, Data tiles, Microsfot Surface, Khronos projector and much more...

Cannot wait for these to be readily available to the public.

Link: http://singularityhub.com/2009/03/04/the-next-generation-in-human-comput...

Here are a few excellent sayings that can guide you:

1 – by Kenneth Alsop (1920-1973)

In work, the greatest satisfaction lies - the satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been done only by your unique apparatus. This is really the center of life, and those who never orient themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever know.