I switched over to the AM band and picked up the Red Sox game just as I was passing Fenway on the Pike on my way home from Boston. I listened to the play-by-play for a while, hearing about Victor Martinez’s long out to center field and J.D Drew’s double to put the Sox ahead. When the inning ended, I hit the search button on the radio, revisiting a world from long ago

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Listening to my country

TechFlash, by Todd Bishop – Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 10:17am PDT Six years later, a report from Microsoft’s ‘Board of the Future’ Dan Rasmus, who organized the Board of the Future initiative as Microsoft’s director of information work vision, also stays in touch with many of the board members. Now an independent strategy consultant and author , he has been strongly influenced by the Board of the Future experience, which helped to shape his current work in corporate strategy and long-term scenario planning.

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An IW Board of the Future Update

When Google launched its G Apps Marketplace, Zoho was one of the chosen few launch partners . We presented our integration of Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects with Google using GData API and were chosen to be one of the featured applications in the newly launched marketplace.

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Zoho Invoice & Zoho Creator Helpdesk integrate with Google Apps

The teen-aged boy, whose name I didn’t catch, reminded me that “if you take care of your truck, your truck will take care of you.” He was one of a couple dozen young people who were helping to set up the flea market at the Phillipston school. Several pickup trucks were shuttling items from the church basement to the school. I know some of the people, but very few

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Where we belong is where we are

Last week I briefly talked about an easy way to reorder applications in Zoho Business by simply dragging and dropping items on the side bar. When you click on an app on the sidebar, the application launches on the right within Zoho Business. What if you don’t want the application to launch within Zoho Business?

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SideBar options in Zoho Business

SWARTHMORE, Pa. — Rachel Wallwork ’10 of the Swarthmore College women’s tennis team has been named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America women’s at-large team, as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday morning.

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Wallwork Named Second Team Academic All-American

Building an online community for your service or product is one of the most effective ways to promote customer confidence, loyalty and repeat business. It is of course fundamental that when you create a community, you align your brand’s value and identity with your online community.

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Tailoring your Zoho Discussions-powered Online Community – Part I

Many people in the technology industry express surprise that Zoho has never received any outside capital, and has been bootstrapped from the beginning. I get roughly 3 calls from venture capitalists, private equity firms and the like a week, and I find that I have to repeat myself way too often. It gets boring after a while, so may be a post will help! First, let me state that I don’t have any fundamental religious issues with venture capital.

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Why We Haven't Taken Venture Capital

They’ll resume work in the morning, first to recheck the rate of water flow. At day’s end on Friday, at a depth of 440 feet, we were getting about 2.5 gallons/minute, half of what’s recommended. We might be able to get by, but the pump would have to work harder, shortening its life.

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Slow water

Karl Hakkarainen — From the Droid Dept. ———- Forwarded message ———- From: “Weather Underground Email Service” Date: Jun 6, 2010 11:08 AM Subject: Tornado Watch for Holden, MA To: Tornado Watch Statement as of 11:10 AM EDT on June 06, 2010 Tornado Watch 272 is in effect until 800 PM EDT for the  following locations MA .    Massachusetts counties included are Berkshire            Bristol             Essex Franklin             Hampden             Hampshire Middlesex            Norfolk             Plymouth Suffolk              Worcester Detailed Conditions and Forecast Information: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=01005&from_email=1 Manage Email Settings: http://www.wunderground.com/email/emailsettings.asp?email=kh@queenlake.com If you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe here: http://www.wunderground.com/email/emailsettingsdeleteemail.php?email=kh@queenlake.com This email was sent to: kh@queenlake.com

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Special Father’s Day edition of the occasional series about Holden’s need for three national pharmacy chains. via DNA Paternity Test | Walgreens

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While American kids are looking forward to graduation gifts of cars, clothes, electronics, or at least enough cash to buy same, kids in Finland are dancing in the streets because the new potatoes are in. ” The first Finnish new potatoes of the summer were lifted in Naantali’s Rymättylä on Tuesday morning. Farmer Heikki Vainio , 63, of Röölä was already in full swing with potato harvesting at 9 o’clock in the morning.” Summer’s first new potatoes available for graduation parties ” According to Vainio, the main thing is that the new potatoes are available in time for the school-leaving parties of the new upper secondary school graduates – the ones who will be receiving their white caps this year

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Graduations in the old country

It’s with great pride that I report on my high school alma mater This year’s prom “was not necessarily worse than usual, but the problem is it’s not getting any better,” For a historical perspective, it’s doubtful that there would have been much of this kind of stuff from a class of kids who looked like this.

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Oakmont scraps spring dance after ‘grinding’ at prom

SWARTHMORE, Pa. – It certainly was a year to remember for Swarthmore Athletics: seven playoff teams, three All-Americans, 11 first-team Centennial Conference members, six Centennial gold medalists and one national champion and American record holder.

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Police tonight revealed that 12 people had been shot by a cab driver who went on a bloody rampage in the Lake District before turning the gun on himself … Lake District shooting: TWELVE people gunned down by rampaging Derrick Bird, who then turned weapon on himself | Mail Online

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HP is laying off 9,000 workers (read Hewlett-Packard to cut 9K jobs in services unit ) as it “deepens its use of software, rather than people, to do some of the work that those hubs require.”  Industrial economies are heading toward a point that when they become so efficient, when they do so much with automation, that they won’t be able to recover jobs, because they haven’t retooled their thinking to replace high wage, high skill displaced jobs.

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HP Layoffs – Are Tech Companies Feeding on Themselves

On Sunday afternoon, we were talking about the latest craziness on the Korean peninsula. We wondered why it is that China kept backing North Korea when, it seemed, the larger country got nothing but grief and the small country got lots of aid and protection, no matter how stupidly it behaved. A small, nuclear-armed outlier nation was setting the agenda and was out of control.

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East meets west

While the print and broadcast news media wrestle flail in paroxysms of poverty as Google and Twitter steal their lunch money, the good folk of Phillipston bring the important information directly to the people. (Editor’s note: at this writing, I’ve not been able to confirm our news source, but I suspect that it’s Claire.)

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Future of News, Phillipston-style

On our way back from Amherst, Sandra and I often stop at the lookout on Daniel Shays Highway (U.S. Route 202) in Pelham, Mass. A long time ago, when we were first dating, the view of the Quabbin Reservoir was good.

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What we see changes as much as we do

I promise you that I will never, ever, even under the pain of pointed sticks, take advantage of this offer: via How To Score A Free Thong From American Apparel

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There are few ideas more terrible than this one