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!
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
– Napoleon Hill (via lab111)
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Earth Hour in Toronto - Stunning Pictures →
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In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous
– Aristotle. Greek philosopher.
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Rails Blog is Here →
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REST Architecture and Idempotent Methods →
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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.
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NotiLat : AllTop.com's twin in Spanish! →
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AllTop.com Web2.0 news Fast →
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‘Chi vuol farsi amare, amabile deve diventare’
‘Loved shall...
– A sweet Proverb from Baci, an Italian classic.
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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!
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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.
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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...
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Awesome Highlighter →
TinyURL Innovator: Awesome Highlighter!
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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...
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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...
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Who said the crowd is always right? →
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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...
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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,...
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Fake Steve Humor about iPhone SDK - Funny! →
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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 { ...
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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
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Markup Generator CSS / XHMTL →
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Steve Jobs land in Fortune Magazine yet Again →
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