Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/29/10

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/29/10

One year ago, I had not exorcised my deep-seated fear of skeletons. Fast forward to the present, nothing has changed.  This is bothersome to me.  Am I the only one who has stuff like this? Instead of unearthing other petty fears a 41 year old man shouldn’t even be entertaining, here are some links.  Am

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MIPRO Consulting at the Ohio RUG, November 4, 2010

Please join us at the Fall 2010 Ohio PeopleSoft Regional User Group (RUG) meeting on Thursday, November 4th, 2010 at The Conference Center at OCLC.  The Conference Center is located at 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017. If you’re a regular at this RUG, please note that this RUG is at a different venue than

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Spinner Rage, or A Level of Detail Only Designers Grok

These days, we’re all familiar with the variations of Apple’s now-famous spinner animation that’s the modern-day incarnation of the ‘waiting’ hourglass.  It began at Apple and has since spread just about everywhere in many variations. Panic’s Cabel Sasser found a web spinner created by Ajaxload.info that is driving him nuts.  And the reason it’s driving

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Apple Reports Record Quarter for Macs, iPhones, iPads

Apple, reporting just upwards of $20 billion in revenue and $4.3 billion in profit: Apple sold 3.89 million Macs during the quarter, a 27 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 91 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.05 million iPods during

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QUOTE: On Being in the People Business

“We are in the people business. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the banking business, your customers, you’re in the people business, and it’s how you treat people. I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I’d like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it’s

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/15/10

The Internet was kind this week, bestowing upon us some fine hypertext products way better than pictures of cats with brutalized English captions.  Because you’re busy and have other things to do than scour the underbelly (not that underbelly) of the Internet, I have collected the highlights below for you to enjoy over the weekend.

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