Just ran across the site off Basil Vandegriend, who wrote an article back in May about project management for software development projects. In that article he shows an application that shows the relation between the four factors that play a role in project management: time, resources, scope and quality with which you can visually show their relation.
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0 Comment » An interesting new product became available on the Internet a few months back, called “Moola”. Moola is basically a free “Weekend Millionaires” for the normal people.
Anyway, this is a really interesting business model in my mind. The only problem with it is that the objectives of the players (you and me) are not nicely aligned with the advertisers that provide the cash. This will ultimately hurt the ROI for the advertisers and their willingness to participate. How it ends up we will see.
Update: I still have 1 invite left. Ping me if you want it!
Update 2: Things move fast in this space. Already there is a site called http://www.playmoola.com/ which sports a strategy section for the games and loads of invites left seemingly.
Today I did a few searches on Google, only to find out that Google either rolled out a new feature to their Search Engine Result Page or is testing it. I guess it is the latter because several collegue’s and friends were not able to replicate the behaviour. See the screenshot below:
Basically Google remembers which searches you have done on a person by person basis. However, only now did I also see that the number of times you have already visited the search result is now displayed next to it.
After digging some deeper I found some more features. Here is a page showing what I my popular searches were and which of the results were popular with me:
And Google provides some handy graphs too!
Some of this has implications though:
How is my Search History stored?
Personalized Search stores your search history on Google servers, which means you can view your history and get personalized search results on any computer.
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While working on a draft article for this site I needed to collect some weird images of myself which could then be used in a collage because one of my collegues is going to leave. I myself don’t want to pick that image, and was going to offer the creators of the collage the options. While not wanting to send them megabytes of images, I thought I might do it the Web 2.0 way and put them up on Flickr. Since someone is going to find them anyway, I might as well point you guys to it.
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General Welcome, dear reader, to my blog in, to the best of my knowledge, the third incarnation of my weblog/personal site. The last year and a half I had all these idea’s in my head with nowhere to put them. Everytime I had that thought “I wish I had a weblog to post it to as it might be interesting to other people“. So, here it is!
The source of my idea’s is mostly twofold:
From past experience I know that it is really hard to really add value on the web which is why I chose the default Kubrick’s theme and a base install of WordPress: lets see if I can get content into the site first, before spending hours tweaking the site.
I hope you will enjoy the site!
Jilles
PS1: Since this is really the 3rd incarnation of the site I will try and find the more interesting posts from previous incarnations you will find the first few articles already, all dated in 2003 and 2004.
PS2: I still had a Google AdSense account, so I added some advertising to the site. If I can make up for hosting costs, then I will count myself lucky!
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General Lately, I’ve renewed my interest in Japan and its language and culture. This was sparkled by the announcements from friends that they were going to Mexico (couple 1) and Washington DC (couple 2). I dug up the reader, titled “Japanese I: an introductionâ€, I got as a present from my brother. I hope I find the time to learn a bit more Japanese and to post a few articles on the subject along the way.
But there are so much more interesting places to look for. There are two respected blogs written by Japanese. The first one is Joi Ito’s weblog, who posts frequently and about a lot of interesting topics. If you are mainly interested in things he posts about Japan, than use the Japanese category archives.
The second blog to watch is Antipixel which is written and maintained by Jeremy Hedley. The first thing I noticed was the good Colophon that is present on the site (more sites should do this!). The second thing is that Jeremy writes about Japan and its culture, but he also makes wonderful pictures to match those posts! (Example 1 about Japanese bathing, Example 2: writing in stone, Example 3).
Keep an eye out for these two blogs if you like Japan.
Oh, and when I see sites like these then I’ve almost booked my flight!
Question: does anybody know a well known book in Western Europe that is translated into Japanese, that one could start to read at entry-level Japanese? Just something on which I could get cracking… If you know any book(s), post a comment please!
