SurfFoo for March 9th

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Gems from the Web:

• The Myth of the Sleeping Baby and Other Fallacies for the Work at Home Parent • A realistic (and humorous) look at how to organize your office-from-home.
• Who’s Defining Your Model of Success? • “Throughout our lives, bits and pieces of the success model kit comes to us from a variety of sources. We take some from here, and a little from there, and assemble it into our picture of what success means.”
• Web Design Process • The complete no-nonsense guide to designing web sites.
• World of Ends • What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.
• My Odds of Success as an Internet Entrepreneur • “Most people stick with their corporate jobs because they are afraid to fail. Conversely, I’m much more afraid to never try. “
• Hundred Dollar Words • What do words such as outside the box or innovative really mean? Because they are so overused, nothing.
• Dear Bosses, there’s a reason we quit our jobs • When we look back on all the cruddy jobs we’ve had, no doubt there are some that could have been better if our bosses weren’t complete hosebags. Wouldn’t it be nice to get them in a room all at once and set them straight on a few things?
• A Thing of Beauty is a Joy with Photoshop • How to beautify a portrait photo in PhotoShop
• Olive’s first Post • …and if you thought that 93 was a honourable age to start blogging, visit Olive from Australia. 107 years!
• Einstein put to use • 1 gram of grape could power a household for 10.000 years. <i>Any physic-literate people reading this - please do comment.</I>
• What a Waste of Bandwidth!: Can Bush Slogans • “If You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to Iran”, “Bush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber” or “You Can’t Be Pro-War and Pro-Life At the Same Time”
• FBI phone tap LEAKED! Bush arguing with Condi • Fun (and fake) collage, not exactly political. But fun.
• HD Test • CML recently did a test on pro HD cameras. Here are some results. (warning: only exciting for camera people)
• Tricorder Invented, For Real • …for all you Star Treck Fans out there
• G-Speed • Review of a terrabyte fibre-channel disk solution from renowned G-Tech
• Blinkenlights.nl • If you think you understand German, read this, and you’ll be utterly confused.
• UrlyArt.com - Fark’s Top News Stories - February 22, 2006 • News displayed in a truly visual style
• America’s Most Admired Companies 2007 - Apple snapshot • Apple gets first place in Innovation, but a low 6th place in people management and Social responsibility
• Jumpshots • People jumping all over. The globe. Literally.
• Womens day wishes • Be proud to be a woman and hence strive to create a unique and special identity for urself in this material world!shine shine
• A master of my trades • # Never expect this plan to remain valid for a long time. Times change, and so should you. # Never expect to reach the tip of your knowledge. It’s a never-ending endeavor.
• Greet new visitors: a WordPress plugin • This sounds like something I should put on this blog. What do you think?
• Don To Earth • Great relief that blogger Dan, 93 years of age, is o.k.
• Billionaire club membership jumps • Microsoft founder Bill Gates held the top spot for the 13th year in a row with a net worth of $56bn.
• RED / Gallery • The first clips in 1080p (yes, p!) have arrived. Seeing is believing.
• Red Camera Stickers • While we are waiting (and some are paying for that, too) for this much hyped camera to come, we can at least buy stickers of it’s logo.
• DV - Features - Build Your Own HD Workstation • Everything Final Cut Pro users–from starving artists to small shops–need to edit uncompressed HD content. (You might need to register, but it is free and very much worth it.)
• A Bit of Magic • I have redesigned my company’s webpage, this time employing WordPress. It was very freeing to seperate content and form. (More content to come )
• Apple to hold special event at NAB • Is there a new Final Cut around the corner? Except for last year’s show, Apple has used this trade exhibition to show it’s powerful editing and more-and-more post-production suite.
• Briefly: Steve Jobs spotted with iPhone at kids sporting event? • Is it him or is it not?
• Job Opening: Internet Philosopher • “Everyone involved with technology and the Internet is playing to their own fiddler unconcerned with the larger impacts of the smaller events they initiate.”
• The Blogging Triangle: 3 Elements of Success • Douglas Karr and his very interesting theory/theorem
• Merlin: Many delicate electronic parts • Maybe the coolest electronic games made in the 1980s? I wanted one very badly, but had to wait until xmas of 2006 to get one. My daughters also loved it