If you are considering telecommuting, here are some excellent points to ask before jumping from the cube to the homefront.
Forty percent more employers are offering telework programs this year than last. Before you say yes to telework, make sure you’ve asked yourself and your employees these tough questions.
This list was posted on Slashdot today. Great list. I’ve played a few of the games, especially Depths of Peril which, unlike most games, has versions available for Mac as well as Windows. Lead-in for the article: If you are sick of the boring and overpriced commercial games, then have a look at this list….
Apparently another Microsoft project. According to some posts on Slashdot this morning, Microsoft has started a city-by-city project to capture every street. The first two cities are Seattle and San Francisco. It’s an interesting idea, but it makes you wonder. Are they going to edit out every person who might appear in the pictures? Windows…
On the list of things that would be cool but utterly useless (except maybe to entertain the cats), was Spooky Books from Things You Never Knew Existed Web site. This set of antique-looking books hold a surprise: the middle book pushes out on it’s own when someone walks by. Accompanied, of course, by spooky sounds….
Taser, meet iPod. iPod, meet Taser. Isn’t that a natural combination? The concept appears to be that when someone tries to nick your MP3 player, you can shock the idea out of their crack-addled noggin with 50,000 volts. Presumably this particular piece of convergent genius emerged from the same school of thought that maintains America…
I’m receiving an error message right now. It appears to be pretty bad on the system. Might not be the Windows install. miht be something else. I load the LinuxLive CD for Mutagenix. Burned from an iso. Should be fine, as far as I can tell. CD starts the boot process and gives the following…
This sounds like something out of the “Pre Crime” division from Minority Report… The new technology is, to its critics, Orwellian. Others view it as a silver bullet against terrorism that could render waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods obsolete. Some scientists predict the end of lying as we know it. read more | digg…