Remember when you were a kid, and you did something really naughty, your teachers used to always threaten you with: “Now that’s going on your permanent record !” Now here, I am dating myself a bit. I have no idea if teachers still say this, but the generation of schoolmarms, god bless their hearts, who […]
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Tips from a Consultant on the edge
Things I’ve learned over the last 15 years of consulting in fields as diverse as Business IT, Network analysis, Importing, and Product liquidation, from Universities, to Small Businesses, to mega corporations, to sketchy scrap metal and demo companies owned by Roma who walk around talking about vague ties to Russian Mafya (Roma = Gypsies – […]
Neat Site of the Week – Open source Alternatives
Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software http://www.osalt.com/ Quote: “.. Find alternatives for iTunes -> Amarok or Songbird Or check-out Photoshop, Autocad, Visio, Dreamweaver or Norton Ghost on your own. Recently added commercial software: Citrix, ACDSee and iMovie. Our mission is to provide easy access to high quality open source alternatives to well-known […]
Some quotes, future forcasts, from Strategic Trends 2007-2036
“Kamal, that’s like totally boring !!!” So, I am reading “Strategic Trends 2007-2036” a document of near future forecasts made by the UK’s Ministry of Defense DCDC Directorate General. I’m also reading a few other interesting bureaucratic pearls that I might post about later. So, you should check it out. Why? Well, I find it […]