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The random interesting stuff I find and feel compelled to say something about.

Decode Your Genome For $1,000

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from Consumerist by Chris Walters
For $1,000, a small California-based company called 23andMe (financed in part by Google) will decode your DNA and tell you whatever it can about your predispositions, health risks, and family traits—for example, whether or not you’re in line for the same heart disease that affected your father and grandfather, which is what the author of the Wired article wondered. (Turns out he’s not, but he’s at a higher risk of developing glaucoma. When one door opens…)

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For now, companies are offering genotyping—”the strategic scanning
of your DNA for several hundred thousand of the telltale variations
that make one human different from the next.” It will take a few more
years before anyone can offer (or afford) to sequence all 6 billion
points of a person’s genetic code, but in the meantime, genotyping can
provide a lot of the kind of health-related information many people
would love to know.

Tired of waiting on hold – outsource your waiting to India

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It’s not just for Fortune 500 companies, you can use a company like Brickwork and pay someone $4/hr to sit on hold for you. From the website:

Remote Executive Assistant

  • Do you spend more time on routine administrative tasks instead of important business issues?
  • Are you suffering from information overload?
  • Are you finding less time to devote to your personal interests?
  • Are you up against a deadline and need help with research on your project?
  • Do you have an interesting idea but need help in creating a business plan?
  • Do you need assistance for extensive internet research and database creation?
  • Do you want to create/improve your website which gets you more customers?

Tasks they do:

  • Formatting/beautifying any MS office files like word, excel, PowerPoint
  • Quick mail mergers and sending mass mails in your name; Email & fax blast
  • Internet search or any other sources that you provide them access to
  • Designing customized greetings cards and sending them on your behalf
  • Fine tuning your logo, business cards and other stationary including converting image to vector
  • Data processing like data entry, OCR conversion; creating the PowerPoint presentation from the handwritten data;
  • Updation, normalization & standardization of database;
  • photo edits; b/w to color
  • Shopping
    assistance like comparison of models & prices, listing of shops
    within a specific area with address, phone number & route map

Has anyone tried this?

How corporate policy works (joke)

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Here is an oldie but a goodie. This story made it’s rounds years ago as an email forward. I’m sure everyone has seen it before but maybe you forgot it – enjoy:

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THE PLAN

In the beginning was The Plan.
And then came the assumptions.
And the assumptions were without merit.
And The Plan was without substance.

And darkness was upon the face of the workers.
And they spoke among themselves, saying, “It is
a crock of shit, and it stinketh.”

And the workers went unto their supervisors and said,
“It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odor thereof.”

And the supervisors went unto their managers, saying, “It is
a container of excrement and it is very strong, such that
none may abide by it.”

And the managers went unto their directors, saying,
“It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong.”

And the directors went unto the VPs, saying unto them,
“It promotes growth and it is very powerful.”

And the VPs went unto the Prez, saying unto him, “This plan
will actively promote the growth and vigor of the company,
with powerful effects.”

And the Prez looked upon the plan, and saw that it was good.
And The Plan became Policy.
This is how shit happens!

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Let me share my personal take on this… Continue reading →

Google more popular than sex (at least according to google)

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I was playing with Google Trends yesterday. With a few keystrokes you can satisfy your need for both useless trivia interesting facts and the data to back it up. Where else can you discover that basset hounds are more popular in Hungary, that Hillary Clinton is finally more popular than her husband, or that in spring of 2007, google became more popular than sex:
Here are some more fasinating trends (at least to me). Continue reading →

A new site, again

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I have had my first real stretch of free time in almost 4 years these past 2 weeks. With it, I thought I would clean a little house and update my website. I have 2 goals with this new site: consolidate and simplify.

Consolidate because I have 34 domains hosted with half a dozen ISPs. This is great for playing the feild and comparing level of service (except they all pretty much suck the same with 1 notable exception), but it is very poor for having any kind of focus. The fact is,  I do a little bit of work online each week outside of my client paid activities.  But since it is  spread out across so many different projects, it is lost.

Simply because my old site, while cool, was based on a cold fusion platform I build my self with several different web services integrated into it. Half of these were down half the time. Well see how well this new approach works. Fingers crossed. (by the way, if its 2010 and this is the only thing up here, you will know it failed.)