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Mastering Hand Shaking!
By chip at 11 September, 2007, 2:02 pm
The art of hand shaking is often discussed, always relevant but is sadly undervalued as a social tool. I like to think that I have God’s gift to hand shaking (even though I once got into a ‘friendly’ fisticuff when one attempt went awry).
There is quite a lot written about hand shaking, but I didn’t [...]
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Health 2.0
By chip at 12 March, 2008, 11:54 am
Health 2.0 is another tossfest’ buzzword like Web 2.0. Actually it’s very similar to Web 2.0 but it does have a lot more meaning - at least to me!
From the founder
…focusing on user-generated aspects of Web2.0 within health care but not directly interacting with the mainstream health care system. That means, a) search, b) communities, [...]
Read More >>Movie Reviews: Rambo, Awake, Things we Lost in the Fire, Outpost, Run Fatboy Run…
By chip at 29 February, 2008, 7:15 am
Pure unadulterated violence and gore. John Rambo is getting on in his years and his anger has only festered. He now lives as a “boatman” in Thailand, spending his time taxiing people up and down the river. When his last customers go missing, he suddenly feels obliged to help out with the rescue efforts. From [...]
Read More >>Digsby: Bringing People Together!
By chip at 28 February, 2008, 9:31 am
I needed an Instant Messenger to access MSN Messenger and Google Chat and from my few minutes of research, there wasn’t a longstanding killer application that dealt with this. A quick talk to my ‘finger-on-the-pulse’ friend Threatz and he was insisting that I try out Digsby.
So off I went, I downloaded, installed and I [...]
Google Sets: Generate a Set!
By chip at 27 February, 2008, 11:39 am
Google Sets has been in Google Labs for a while, but it’s still very new to me. This is what Google says about it:
Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
What a very short description for a company who loves to keep things simple. Well rightly so, because it is extremely easy to use. [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 3: Get it!
By chip at 13 February, 2008, 12:19 pm
Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now released and ready to download and use!
Initially, there’s no shocking changes to the interface but this can usually change when a product is released in its final state.
A few things I’ve noticed:
Auto-Complete now reads from Bookmarks and from titles and tags. This means that you can get [...]
Read More >>Google Docs: Easily Create and Publish your own survey!
By chip at 11 February, 2008, 8:30 am
Google Spreadsheets now makes it easier to create an online survey.
At this stage it’s simple, you give your survey a name, add a few questions and select whether they are single choice(radio button or drop down list), multiple choice (check boxes) or text and then you save it and send it out to [...]
Upcoming Movies to Watch
By chip at 8 February, 2008, 12:53 pm
The Eye
Jessica Alba stars in this remake of Japanese horror film Gin gwai (2002). Plot: A blind girl is given the opportunity of sight through an eye transplant, although what she sees isn’t normal… Trailer
Rambo IV
Stallone graces our screens once more in this blood lust epic that is being released 10 years after his predecessors. [...]
Time Filler: Desktop Tower Defense
By chip at 7 February, 2008, 9:09 am
This beautiful little game runs in your browser, and is super addictive!
The aim of the game is to prevent an armada of creeps from running across your battlefield by purchasing a towers (up to 9) with different defense systems (pellets, darts, swarm (anti-air)) to stop these incessant creeps from breeching your perimeter.
The opening paragraph [...]
2008 / Off to a start!
By chip at 6 February, 2008, 8:56 am
Oh yes, it’s 2008 and we’re already into February. It’s about time to start this blog again!
I’m using an awesome new theme by Web-Kreation that I will be mildly tweaking over the new couple of weeks and I’m using free photoshop brushes to render a new WCD logo to sit up top left on all [...]
Internet Archive: Crawl back in time!
By chip at 6 December, 2007, 11:06 am
Ever since I first heard about the Internet Archive website and the Way Back Machine I have had an on again, off again fascination with it.
So, what is it?
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, [...]