This is an extended quote from the New York Times of February 19, 2010, from a story titled ‘Afghan Push Went Beyond Traditional Military Goals’ : “Before 10,000 troops marched through central Helmand Province to wrest control of a small Afghan town from a few hundred entrenched Taliban fighters, American officials did something more typical of political than military campaigns: they took some polls.

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That Poll in Marja and What It Means for Us

A Ventura County hardware store thought putting out a box of donuts and a pot of coffee for their customers was just good business – and it was for 15 years. For the most part customers welcomed it for what it was – a kind hearted gesture of good will.

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Free Donuts – Good Marketing or Crime?

The Secret Recipe for Success with Product Launches Guest Post by Brandon Hartman Can I share a secret with you? I have a marketing technique that, when used properly, can generate an ENTIRE YEAR’S worth of sales in 10 days or less! This secret marketing strategy will create a tidal wave of sales, all while increasing your brand and position within your market.

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Brandon’s Secret Recipe for Product Launches

Hello Train Signal blog readers! This is Mel, and I just finished my Advanced SQL Server 2008 Database Administration Training and wanted to take a minute here to tell you a little bit about it. I will also give you a brief outline of the different SQL Server certification paths and levels and point you

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Learn Advanced SQL Server 2008 Database Administration

Mike MacPherson over at NetworkManagementSoftware.com recently published a good review of Spiceworks — a help desk, asset, and network management suite. Today I thought I’d share the review with you; I think it’s a useful product and for the price tag (free) it’s definitely worth a shot

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Spiceworks: A Free Help Desk & Network Monitoring Platform

Image by cameronneylon via Flickr This post, while only 48 hours old is somewhat outdated by these two Friendfeed discussions. This was written independently of those discussions so it seemed worth putting out in its original form rather than spending too much time rewriting. I wrote recently about Sciencefeed, a Friendfeed like system aimed at scientists and was fairly critical

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“Friendfeeds for Science” pt II – Design ideas for a research focussed aggregator

Prince George’s Suite , the magazine of Prince George’s County, Md., is seeking a freelance editor “with good judgment, who knows when to light a candle under a story and when to take a blowtorch to it, so the reader wins in the end.

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Work-at-Home Editor for Prince George’s Suite

Let’s stoke the ole’ fire a little with another great remix from MAW ,….here they’ve totally flipped Trey Lorenz’s slow and emotional ‘Photographs of Mary’ into an upbeat soulful house bomb, all to easily… …

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Trey Lorenz – Photograph of Mary (Masters at Work dub) | Feel my Bicep

Its the start of another month, I sware just yesterday was New Years! Boy this year is going by so fast! I have so much to look forward to in March. First is my trip to the Dominican which starts this weekend! The weekend after my return is the Knowledge and Needles Timberhouse Retreat.

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February Review and March Goals

Downloading of software for personal use is now proposed to be taxed under service tax and attracts tax @ 10.3%. Normally service tax is payable by service provider. However, if service provider is non resident, service receiver is the person liable to take service tax Regn and pay tax to Govt, as if he himself is deemed as service provider

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Think twice before downloading software after this budget

and some things you can’t . Just wanted to share this quote which I think is particularly relevant in our current economic state: “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.

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Work Life Balance Lesson: There’s Some Things You Can Drop…

When I try to wrap my head around the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for development, I usually don’t get much further than “blogging” and “text messages.” It was therefore enlightening to attend today’s World Bank Institute Keys to Innovation Discussion Series on “Developers for Development: Using Open Source Technology in Disaster Response and Beyond.” Five presenters from open source organizations introduced their projects. The relevance of those projects is painfully obvious in the aftermath of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.

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Still a Niche? ICTs for Disaster Response and Development

Stagiaires are young, often unpaid cooks-in-training.  Those working at Mugaritz lost their valuable knives in the devastating fire recently.   Replacing their costly tools of the trade will be difficult for these young cooks, yet not having them is not an option.  Their plight is surely insignificant in the face of the disasters in Haiti and Chile.  But what price a dream

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Lend a hand to chefs of tomorrow

Currently, a few errors –and supposed errors– in the last IPCC report (“AR4″) are making the media rounds – together with a lot of distortion and professional spin by parties interested in discrediting climate science.  Time for us to sort the wheat from the chaff: which of these putative errors are real, and which not? And what does it all mean, for the IPCC in particular, and for climate science more broadly?

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IPCC errors: facts and spin

Jane McGonigal thinks they can help. She’s a game designer who gave a talk at the TED conference this year (although her talk isn’t up yet). McGonigal makes some good points in this short video, especially about how dealing with things in a video-game environment — like failure, or social interactions — can be greatly helpful when one eventually has to deal with them in the real world

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Will Video Games Save the World? | Cosmic Variance

This via The Economist, via Deltoid:For example, a week ago Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, gave an interview to the BBC that was widely described as a debacle. The main reason was that the BBC reporter asked Mr Jones whether he would concede that global warming since 1995 has not been statistically significant

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How It’s Done

Parking can be a real hassle, whether you’re fumbling for change for the meter or just trying to find an empty spot. San Francisco-based Streetline has developed networking and sensor technologies that enable users to pay their meter fees from their