QUOTE: On Commitment and Boldness

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QUOTE: On Commitment and Boldness

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would

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Top Digital Marketing Exec Leaves RIM for Samsung

AdvertisingAge: Mr. Wallace, RIM’s top digital marketer, is defecting to Samsung Mobile, where he’ll be VP-strategic marketing for the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter. While Mr. Wallace oversaw all things digital at RIM as VP-digital marketing and media, his new role will also encompass offline media, creative and branding. The move means

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PeopleTools 8.52 Sneak Peek

NEWS: the PeopleTools 8.52 Release Value Proposition has been posted on My Oracle Support. (Login required.) Major areas of focus for the 8.52 release include but are not limited to: Increasing user productivity Improving system navigation (big area of enhancement requests) Lowering TCO (total cost of ownership) The PeopleSoft Technology Blog has the official statement:

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The Top 5 Ways Oracle Is Being a Better Citizen

Alex Handy, writing for the SD Times, has a nice list of the top ways Oracle is being an excellent citizen within the enterprise technology and software development communities.  Here’s the high-level list, but you owe it to yourself to see Handy’s rationale behind each. Handing Hudson over to the Eclipse Foundation Pushing OpenJDK as

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 6/17/11

My brain is, to some indeterminate percentage, defective. Not just, “Oh, that’s understandable, we all have strange mental echoes and stuff” defective, but really, seriously prone to screwy malfunctions.  To the point others will look at me with a raised eyebrow and that faux-overintense stare and try to end their conversation with me as quickly

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‘Make No Little Plans’

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

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[NEWS] CIO Randy Mott Leaves HP

Saw this tweet by Thomas Wailgum yesterday: This is pretty big news, as Mott was, for the most part, considered a successful executive.  But as Wailgum suggests, perhaps we was too rich for HP CEO Leo Apotheker’s taste? It’s anyone’s guess as to impetus, but he was expensive.  From data compiled in 2009 from publicly-filed

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Steve Jobs Proposes Apple’s New Campus to Cupertino City Council

I find this utterly fascinating, if only to see a Steve Jobs away from a keynote’s limelight doing some of the more pedestrian civic tasks a CEO sometimes has to do. And the architecture of the proposed campus — wow! ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.

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Riffing on Online Banking Security Considerations

The following issue caught my attention and I thought I’d research it in a little more depth as I think it’s important to anyone who does their personal banking online.  With the adoption of online banking and its associated convenience comes the risk of identity theft and potential loss of personal funds. Recently a major

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 6/10/11

So I have an iPhone 4, and it’s easily the best computer (yes, computer) I’ve ever used.  I love it.  But today I’m going to absolutely eviscerate its video calling feature, named FaceTime, because I think video calling is nonsense and after you try it once or twice just to experience it, you come to

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