March 2008
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Earth Hour - Toronto Nelly Furtado performing Turn off the Lights. Earth Hour is a movement to increase awareness about global warming. I must say however that Earth Hour was chilly in Toronto! 
Mar 31st
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“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
– Napoleon Hill (via lab111)
Mar 31st
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Earth Hour in Toronto - Stunning Pictures →
Mar 31st
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“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous”
– Aristotle. Greek philosopher.
Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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Mar 29th
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Rails Blog is Here →
Mar 27th
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REST Architecture and Idempotent Methods →
Mar 26th
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Mar 25th
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Bon Jovi Live in Toronto A nice video slideshow of the best shots I took from Bon Jovi’s concert on March 12th., at the Air Canada Centre. 
Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
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NotiLat : AllTop.com's twin in Spanish!  →
Mar 20th
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AllTop.com Web2.0 news Fast →
Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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“‘Chi vuol farsi amare, amabile deve diventare’ ‘Loved shall...”
– A sweet Proverb from Baci, an Italian classic.
Mar 19th
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How to add comments to Tumblr in 3 minutes
Timblr is my favorite micro-blog, but it does not support comments!  I found this frustrating but fortunately it is fairly easy to fix: Visit Disqus.com - 5 seconds Sign up - 25 seconds Take the Tumblr custom code, read simple instructions - 90 seconds Edit your theme - 50 seconds Test it - 10 seconds Done in 3 minutes!
Mar 19th
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Safari 3.1 Apple's latest Browser Hits the Web →
Apple claims Safari is the fastest browser on Earth for Macs and PCs.
Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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It's 5 Minutes from Nuclear Doomsday, really.
No global warming is not the biggest threat for life on Earth. According to leading Atomic scientist we are still 5 minutes from doomsday, the worst since the height of the cold war in 1984. Did you know there are 27,000 nuclear warheads in the world today? Did you know 1 to 5 Kg. of nuclear material are enough to build a bomb? Did you know it is relatively easy to get the knowldedge to build a...
Mar 18th
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Awesome Highlighter →
TinyURL Innovator:  Awesome Highlighter!
Mar 18th
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Mar 17th
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“In the deal crafted on Sunday for Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay a...”
– New York Times. If you still think Canada or the rest of the world should not worry about the sub-prime problems in the US. Think again, the world financial system is heavily interconnected. Today stock markets fell in Asia, India, Europe and Canada. Suddenly gold at $2000 does not sound...
Mar 17th
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How to Run Many Version of IE in Windows XP - 6,...
There are many ways to do it, but this one although long, it is pretty simple: Download a copy of Virtual PC, it’s free for our purposes Install it Download a VPC image of either 7 or 8, or both. Install it using Virtual PC, that image will not ask for activation but will expire sooner or later. When it does, download a new one. Run IE 6, 7 or 8 or all of them! =) Original...
Mar 13th
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Who said the crowd is always right? →
Mar 11th
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“Fire the people who are workaholics!… If your start-up can only succeed...”
– David Heinemeier Hansson. Sound rebuttal of the workaholic myth. Organizations need whole persons, people who will go the distance, people who have time to imagine and innovate, people whose families appreciate the company dad or mom works at, not those who are on the verge of exhaustion wishing...
Mar 11th
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Secrets for Engaging Communication
Communication is fundamentally being able to send ideas back and forth under an umbrella of mutual understanding. However to achieve an “engaging communication”, an exchange that inspires and seduces the listener, the reader, friend or person we love is a much bigger challenge. People have many names for this type of communicator: charismatic, seductive, interesting, fun to be with,...
Mar 10th
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Mar 7th
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Fake Steve Humor about iPhone SDK - Funny! →
Mar 7th
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Mar 6th
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Quick Hacks - Internet Explores CSS and More
Sometimes we want IE 6 buggy CSS to behave and work, the easiest way is this one: 1. Set the baseline for the screen * {margin:0;padding:0;} 2. Send IE 6+ the CSS instructions it needs, let the rest of the browsers carry on. I use the pound trick #, the exclamation mark trick is similar, but I find the # very straigh forward and it adheres to the KISS philosophy =) #container-class dt { ...
Mar 6th
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Internet Explorer 8 Arrives
MS was not fully sleeping after all, and it seems finally they deliver a fully Standard Compliant browser! Download: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm  Quick Reviews:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503239.html  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/internet_explorer_8_has_arrived.php 
Mar 6th
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Markup Generator CSS / XHMTL →
Mar 6th
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Steve Jobs land in Fortune Magazine yet Again →
Mar 5th
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Mar 4th