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- Ecademy members are invited to attend a workshop jointly offered by Richard White of the I Hate Selling club and Max Blumberg of the The Positioning Game club. Some consulting and professional service businesses seem to do incredibly well without cold calling and consider it’s a waste of time. Others swear by cold calling for new developing business development. Who’s right? and more importantly, what place does cold calling have in new business development for a professional services firm? |
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- trey from morbid with his red ironbird |
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- Some bits & bobs for films coming out this year Official site for The Dreamers, Bertolucci's sexy new dirty arthouse film Pretty good trailer for the Dawn of the Dead remake Photos from what looks to be a very crap wrap party for John Waters' A Dirty Shame, starting with the scary image I've linked to there Watch an animated prologue for The Chronicles of Riddick, narrated by the Miramax whore, Dame Judy Dench The Official site for Hellboy. Like the film, it reminds me a bit of X-Men Diary, photos and some footage from Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education starring Gael Garcia Bernal, which is all I need to hear Fake website for the company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latest Gondry / Kaufman project, marred only by the presence of Jim Carrey Dogville - clips, interviews & nice music for the setless Kidman vehicle. Looks interesting Official site for the School of Rock. |
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- The annual dance has already started, where agency television network buyers complain about the unreasonableness of network TV prices, falling ratings, ludicrous network claims. This annual phase leads up to the multi-billion-dollar television upfront season - due to start in about four months - where the agencies then roll over and decide to pay whatever price increases the networks want. AdWeek reports. [summary] |
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- I think I know what you mean... it looks more evolved |
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- Have you heard about the Apple 1984 commercial that was shown at the 2004 MacWorld? You can take a look at it here. See if you notice anything, um, different about it. I probably wouldn't have unless I had been told, but I won't spoil it for ya. Coolness. |
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- Link to the installation Badge page. Wow. The Alpha version has been unleashed today by Theodore Patrick (powersdk). "Icon Professional 2004 is a commercial Pixel Icon editor that will ship in February. The application is a commercial Central application with... |
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22o dia (Jan 09 2004 15:59 GMT) - Já ouvi que quando se está perdido o melhor é voltar às raízes. E voltar às raízes, no meu caso,... |
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- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America's traditionally independent farmers will drop their distrust of outside meddling to embrace a national livestock identification system as a safeguard against mad cow disease, leaders of the largest U.S. farm group say. |
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TV Barn (Jan 09 2004 15:59 GMT) - I'm Aaron Barnhart, and since January 1997 I have been the television critic at the Kansas City Star. For five years I wrote a weekly Internet guide to late-night television called Late Show News. It led to freelance assignments, which led to my current position. In 1999, I closed down Late Show News and opened up TV Barn. |
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- Usually I avoid Wired magazine like the plague (at least half of the reason being the magazine is a typographic... |
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- Black and White tells the story of Rupert Murdoch's 1950s rise to fame through a crusading story in his first newspaper…but the tale fails to keep this film afloat. |
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- In so many ways Tom Cruise's latest flick, The Last Samurai, is a bit of a clunker, but expect it to be a blockbuster anyway. |
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- Nobody does grumpy quite like the wonderful Murray - and he is at his very best in Lost in Translation. |
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Ecto (Jan 09 2004 15:58 GMT) - Ecto is the newly revised Blog Editor formerly known as Kung Log. I've been beta testing it and think it is very nice. The main issue any editor will have getting me out of NetNewsWire is the RSS NewsReader integration. Many of my posts initiate from something I've just read in my newsreader. |
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Tag 68 (Jan 09 2004 15:58 GMT) - endlich wochenende. konnte mein auto heute alleine waschen, keiner sonst war da. das suckt. es braucht ewig. naja, egal. |
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- QUOTE (Monic @ Jan 8 2004, 09:07 PM) Thanks for the warm welcome. thats an old pic of me btw. I can't that I really look that way. Post a new one!!!! |
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- I've been known to complain about the way we writers, as a profession, have devalued our work (or have allowed others to devalue of our work) by the nouns we use - 'content' and 'copy' are pretty dreary, aren't they?... |
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- A new spark of light in a cold, dark universe. olsens.soulhuntre.com... |
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- Every morning I walk to work. I walk in stages.... |
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- Ori Kushner discusses the Java Units Specification (JSR 108). This JSR standard allows developers to create systems of units and to define conversion and representation rules in Java. The article uses the J.A.D. |
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- This is a JavaScript Chess Game for kids. This script won't allow users to make non-compliant moves and gives hints. |
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- This is a JavaScript Chess Game for kids. This script won't allow users to make non-compliant moves and gives hints. |
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- Some high-tech heavyweights have pled to the the US Congress to not place restictions on overseas hiring practices. "In a report by a trade group (Computer Systems Policy Project) for some leading technology companies, executives argued that moving jobs to countries such as China or India — where labor costs are cheaper — helps companies break into lucrative foreign markets and hire skilled and creative employees in countries where students perform far better than... |
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- Joe Walnes has released a Java library for "dynamically building complicated SQL SELECT statements" called Sqiggle. It features a concise and intuitive API, generates human readable SQL, and supports joins and sub-selects. |
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- Yes, the GOG diamond I posted about is awesome.. it seems |
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- The Borg calendar and task tracking system has released version 1.0 and 1.1b. Changes for the dot zero release and new beta include the first week day being adjusted to be Monday, you can view and print a week, appointment durations are now available, a 24 hour clock has been introduced, and more. |
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- IBM is offering developers a glimpse of WebSphere 6 by offering the beta for download. Beta 6 includes "support for J2EE Connector Architecture(JCA) 1.5, Java application program interface for XML-remote procedure call (JAX-RPC 1.1), messaging-driven timers, servlets and enterprise JavaBeans. |
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- Many Java and other applications that handle SSL transactions ceased Thursday causing some headaches and a bit of a mystery. Despite some advanced notice, tools relying on a Verisign Root Certificate for verification ceased making secure connections as the certificate expired Thursday morning. Java developers can find out more here from Sun. |
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- Ireland-based Speirtech teams with Silicon Valley-based Rocket Mobile to Deliver Rich MMS and Browser Gaming to CDMA Mobile Handsets Worldwide... |
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- Zeevo, Inc announced that the ZV4002, the industry's first single chip Bluetooth 1.2 device is designed into Ten Technology's naviPlay(TM) product... |
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- Verizon Wireless will begin immediately to expand its BroadbandAccess service nationally... |
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