Memorial Day LinkfestAn assortment of good pages to tide you over the long weekend. Enjoy! (But see the last one, if none of the others.) • The Visual Studio family is a mainstay of internet development, but Microsoft has had a hard time making headway in other graphics and web authoring specialties. Their next attempt will be Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer, both out in community technology previews now. • Heather Clancy summarizes the current state of offshoring: "Consider the latest IT services tidbits from Goldman Sachs... that 22 percent of respondents to its April poll planned to increase their outsourcing of data center or desktop management functions. At the same time, 16 percent reported that they planned to send a material amount of the work they current outsource to systems integrators to an offshore location." • We've mentioned "rural-sourcing" in the forums. Here's an essential component: New IBM Program To Woo Appalachian Students Into Tech Jobs. • Instapundit, aka Glen Reynolds, gets the quote of the week for this line, in reference to companies cracking down on employee's internet usage: "If they really cared about people wasting their time with computer technology, they'd ban PowerPoint, not Web-surfing." • Some websites do unique things really well. I love incompetech.com, which maintains a pdf engine that generates custom ruled papers for dozens of usages, including accounting paper, log, polar and regular graph paper, music notation, and dozens of other variations. • Simon Coggins spent two and a half years at a research station in Antarctica, and blogged about it at 75 degrees South. Don't miss the photo gallery. • IBM is spearheading technologies for the Global Pandemic Initiative, designed to bring respond effectively to a human outbreak of bird flu, or other communicable disease. • The CRN Test Center tries out AnyEdit 2.0 BETA 3, an open-source IDE for Windows. • National Review names the 50 greatest conservative rock songs. Yes, there's some stretching. • One of the big secrets during World War Two was the Allies cracking of (some of) the German codes generated by their Enigma machine. Nowadays, you can build one of your own. • Could you do your job in a four day week? For a while I did, while I worked at a local newspaper with a late late Friday close. Bad, never getting out on Fridays until about 2:00 am; good having Monday off. • Since so many applications are web based now, could you go all the way and web-base your desktop? Startup Ajax13 says "yep". • Since it is Memorial Day, let's wrap up with this: the American Battle Monuments commission maintains America's 24 overseas military cemeteries. Take a minute to take a look. Show it to your kids. Posted by Joe Caponi at 04:41 PM, May 26, 2006 This is a public forum. United Business Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. United Business Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of United Business Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in United Business Media's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business. |
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