A good quote about class

“One typically exhibits class by doing small, gracious things beyond the minimum that is expected. Class, in another words, is a plus. It’s a very good thing to have, but its absence is not really a negative”
That’s probably one of the best descriptions of class that I’ve read. It’s from a post on PowerLine Blog, [...]

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Link – One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while

Link – One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while
Spoof Facebook updates for superheroes.
This is one of the funniest things I have read in ages. You don’t even have to be a hard-core comics fan to appreciate it, as I think most people are familiar enough with Spider-man, Batman and Superman to get [...]

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Article — Burnout (from A List Apart)

This article is over 3 months old and comes from A List Apart, an on-line magazine for web professionals. But I went back and re-read it yesterday and was again struck by how well it matched my own experiences with burnout, both in college and in my career.
So I’m posting it here in case others [...]

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Article — Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women.

If this story had appeared five months earlier, I’d have suspected it was an April Fool’s joke — but it seems to be on the level. Interesting reading.
Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women.
Summary from site: “Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a [...]

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Interesting website, not sure if the organization does that much . . . .

http://www.nascocorridor.com/
“Tri-National Advocacy for Efficient, Secure, and Environmentally Conscious Trade & Transportation”
(Probably vastly over-simplified) Summary: A group which recognizes that trade between Canada, the U.S.A., and Mexico, and between all three countries and the rest of the world, is crucial to the economy of all three countries and is steadily growing in volume. Which is a [...]

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C|NET’s interview with Martin Illsey, Accenture Technology Labs’ director of research

c|net (or is it “C|NET”??) has posted a really interesting interview with Martin Illsey, who is the director of research for Accenture Technology Labs, which is Accenture’s R&D branch.
(Article by Tom Espiner, special to CNET News.com, Published: October 30, 2007, 1:28 PM PDT, site accessed 10/30/07.)
I’m not going to into a whole lot of detail [...]

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