Monthly Archives: September 2008

Mentors can make a difference in your life

I am very thankful for mine. The Simple Dollar has some advice on “How to Find and Utilize a Mentor, No Matter What You’re Doing”.

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Today’s CD production – too loud for Metal fans?

Wall Street Journal: Even Heavy-Metal Fans Complain That Today’s Music Is Too Loud!!!

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Epilepsy, Autism, Schizophrenia – A Connection Found?

Science Daily: Epilepsy, Autism, Schizophrenia: Master Switch That ‘Balances The Brain’ Found

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Can The Muppets be relevant in this day and age?

The NYTimes, in a recent story, documents the effort by Disney to reintroduce the Muppets. You might be wondering if The Muppets could be relevant to today’s children. Richelle had told me that she didn’t think it would be for … Continue reading

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Some Eclipse and Maven Links

Maven: What is Maven? Maven: Maven Getting Started Guide Maven: Guide to using Eclipse with Maven 2.x Eclipse: Top 10 Tips for New Eclipse Users IBM developerWorks: Migrating to Eclipse: A developer’s guide to evaluating Eclipse vs. Netbeans eclipse-plugin: Weblogic … Continue reading

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My thoughts and prayers Antonella

It’s coming up on the one year anniversary of my Mom’s passing. Antonella Pavese, who had an entirely different relationship with her Mom, then I had with mine, shares so much in a post that I feel I can relate … Continue reading

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Development links for today, Sunday, September 28th 2008

stackoverflow: What are the best resources to learn about capacity planning Charles Miller: Spring is Sprung – his thoughts on SpringSource’s new maintenance policy. xkcd: Listen to Yourself IBM developerWorks: Using Python to create UNIX command line tools SEOBook: Google’s … Continue reading

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“a Manual for our Kids to Save the Future”?

That’s what John Baichtal at his Wired Blog “Geek Dad” called Cory Doctorow’s book sci-fi novel “Little Brother”, in his glowing review posted last week. While you can download the book for free legally from the website, I’m going to … Continue reading

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Available: Blogger Libel Insurance

Media Bloggers Association is offering to its members a plan for libel insurance. Bottom line: it’s a big deal. Read more at Dan Gillmor’s and Seth Finkelstein’s.

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Give respect to Weird Al

There is a great Wired retrospective on “Weird Al” Yankovic’s career.

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