I just learned that Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report, a PBS production and my favourite television (now over the Internet) programme, had his final appearance as co-anchor on 31 December, 2009, marking the end of his 30-year career on the show.
I have been a fan of both Paul Kangas and his co-anchor Susie Gharib [...]
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Whenever a significant change is made to SharePoint content or configurations, it’s a jolly good idea to check to see if everything is still hunky-dory. In the life of a SharePoint guy/gal, any one of the following may constitute a “significant” change:
Applying a hotfix, Cumulative Update, or Service Pack
Creating a new SharePoint application, site collection, [...]
I have been observing a certain string of news headlines and editorials since the death of Michael Jackson:
Google mistook Jackson searches for Net attack
Michael Jackson memorial pushes Internet traffic to its limits
Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack
Report: NKorean army suspected over cyberattacks
For Web apps, performance remains an uphill battle
Chrome OS: Cloud computing made [...]
As with many other jobs, implementing or maintaining SharePoint requires an exceptional degree of attention to detail because, well, stuff happens. If an error occurs or a mistake is made inside a testing or staging environment before things go to production, it’s a good lesson. If that lesson is captured, documented, and learned, it becomes [...]
Think Libya. Think desert. According to the source, these are not oil-rich local Libyans but foreign labourers from other states of Africa. It’s easily 35 degrees Celsius in the shade and no, they are not in the shade. From what I can see, it doesn’t look like a 10-minute drive along St. Kilda Boulevard, either.
Just [...]
All IT job interviews carry a product-specific, technical component – and rightly so. But if you are an employer, assessing a candidate solely on the grounds of specialised expertise cannot always be fair. On the other hand, relying heavily on character and cultural fit is also potentially risky because that does not necessarily gauge the [...]
US scientists defend Darwin from attacks on evolution
“While the rest of the world feted the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, US scientists were forced to defend the theory of evolution from a skeptical public and a concerted attack campaign… Just 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution, according to [...]
TVNZ reports:
Hundreds of Koreans who hope to become New Zealand citizens have been caught up in a messy dispute involving police and Korean government officials.
Court appointed liquidators called police to remove Wasan International’s owner, Edward Kang, and to shut down the company’s Auckland offices.
Kang has been an immigration consultant for almost 20 years.
The liquidators say [...]
Singapore Prescribes Shorter Showers, Less Meat to Fight Slump – “Singapore is asking its citizens, the world’s third-wealthiest adjusted for purchasing power, to be prudent as analysts predict the worst economic slump in the nation’s 43-year history. In speeches, pamphlets and ads, the government is advising people to switch to cheaper frozen meats, take shorter [...]
Since the revelation of the biggest accounting scandal in history that involves a global IT outsourcing service provider, I have been trying to read up on it simply because the news and the implications have a lot to do with my own field of profession. And I must say I have been puzzled by a [...]