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A show worth watching

I haven’t blogged since I got back from Asia. I have been quite busy.

To catch up and start again, I want to point out a PBS show that I saw today. It was called “Sugiwara: A conspiracy of kindness”. It was a moving story of a Japanese diplomat in WWII who issued “illegal” visas to hundreds of Jews in Lithuania, before the Nazi’s invaded. He was able to arrange for their migration to Japan and thus helped them avoid the concentration camps. He went against the Japanese government and ended up paying for it after the war, by losing his position and working menial jobs back in Japan.

When asked why he did it, he replied because it was right. If you can watch it on PBS, I recommend it. The story about him is here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sugihara/

It shows what a good human can do, even despite insurmountable obstacles.

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Chris in Beijing China

I am in China currently. I am not posting much here, but I am blogging about my trip to China on my Feng Shui blog http://www.168fengshui.com/blog I think you will find it interesting. There are photos too!

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PC vs Mac

Here is a funny take on the now famous TV commercials from Apple, with a different perspective.

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Stumble upon Invite oops

I accidentally sent out an invite to all the folks in my email list for Stumble upon. Gaaaaahhhhh…

I went to a page to see who I could invite and it linked to my gmail address book. I then thinking oh, I need to click next to see who I will select, and what I didn’t realize is that there are a lot of blank emails in my address book and the page that I was on was the page to select. I had to scroll down to see all the names. Clicking next sent out invites to everyone I have in my address book. Some I haven’t talked to in years and others are business contacts…. Urrrrrghhhhh.

You can see how the page is deceiving, I didn’t see any names before I hit enter!

So if you got an invite from me, go ahead and either accept or decline, but also accept my apologies. I didn’t mean to send it to my entire address book!

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Foster’s Feng Shui

Being an instructor of Feng Shui, this one made me laugh…!

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The mash-up future of the web

First there were static pages, then there was multimedia, then there were wikis and web2.0 collaboration.

Now there are Pipes. A new service from Yahoo, allows anyone to mix and mash content from a variety of sources.

From the BBC:
Pipes, lets you take a data feed such as the result of a web search, or an RSS feed from a blog or news site, or a set of tagged photos on Flickr, and transform it to produce the outcome you want. You can then make it available for other people to see.

Its web-based, no more complicated than creating programs for Lego MindStorms, and already stirring up a lot of interest.

Publisher Tim OReilly, a web zealot not noted for his reticence, calls it “a milestone in the history of the internet” and while he may be slightly over the top he is certainly right to draw attention to it as a major innovation.

BBC NEWS | Technology | The mash-up future of the web

Yahoo Pipes

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The Machine is us!

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101 reasons why Linux is better than Windows

I have been preaching Linux for a quite a while now. Here is a great article that sums up why Linux is better than Windows…
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Many a times Windows users talk about what Windows can do but Linux can
’t. To be fair, they need to know what Linux can do but Windows can’t.

After Reading the article on 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot. I decided to write something on 101 reasons why Linux is better than Windows.

read more | digg story

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Photoshopped Animals - Very Cool

Whoever did these is very good at photoshop, you just have to see for yourself.

read more | digg story

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How to make a few bucks online!

Got on email today from a colleague. He sent me a link to an easy and simple sounding method of making additional cash.

It sounded really interesting so I bought it. Only $7.

Turns out to be the best value I’ve got from $7 for ages.

What do you get for your money?

You get a Report and a Script.

The Report shows you how you can use a beautifully simple but powerful viral marketing system to generate web traffic and
sales - fast.

The Script lets you integrate this viral system into any report you write or own the rights to.

So you get the knowledge and the technology - all for just $7

It’s really, really neat.

So if you’ve got 15 minutes spare and want to get wise to some very sophisticated marketing tactics, then spend your money here and enjoy the read.

Take a look now at it here!

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