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Since it's now September 3, and I last updated on February 1 saying that I was going to blog more, that experiment apparently failed miserably. On a side note, things have been busy for me. I recently completed my MSIS degree (received the diploma yesterday, actually), and now have 8 classes remaining for my MBA. I start the next class tonight - Operations Management. And, it seems like I'll be

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I don't really NEED to do this, but I'm going to try to start writing more often in the blog and attempt to get paid for it. I'll let you know how it works out as I go through, but I'm signing up with SponsoredReviews.com to see how this might work (for me and for the advertisers).Stay Tuned...A lot more content (I hope) on it's way...

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Well, I didn't think I'd be blogging on this site again, but in an effort to put down some of my thoughts concerning Apple's recent product announcements (mainly the MacBook Air) and there quarterly report where they stated the iPod would become the basis for a Wifi platform developed by Apple.So, I'm going to go completely hypothectical and lay out what I think Apple's plans might be, based on

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http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1222694307

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I do have something to blog about. Actually a question to ask. I just read an article (www.cio.com/article/140750) from CIO magazine where Dawn Lepore (a former CIO turned CEO) "tells her own CIO that all IT investments should be customer focused".Now, on the face of things, I agree whole-heartedly with that statement. In practice, though, it's not as easy as it looks. If my company were a

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Hmm...since Dr. Ahmad hightighted this blog on her blog, now I feel kind of obligated to say something profound...Yeah, not coming to me. Sorry. :)Anway, if you want to know what I'm keeping track of lately, check out the following (note/warning: blantant geekness may become obvious in the following links):Speed Racer the movie pics: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-12-05-

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Interesting article (presentation really) from eWeek:http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25940&a=220074&po=1,00.asp

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I know, I should be posting about last week's case study (and I will), but this has been bugging me today for some reason, and I thought I would vent.If you haven't heard, Amazon just launched (yesterday) a new eBook reader called the Kindle. If you haven't heard about it, go to www.amazon.com and check it out (note the letter on the home page from Bezos himself).As you can tell from the title of

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Very funny physics paper post...http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

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Interesting news story released by the BBC earlier today. Apparently, a 17 year old Dutch teenager was arrested for stealing virtual furniture from other users to use in his own room in an on-line virtual (game) world called Habbo Hotel. I love the quote that "It is a theft because the furniture is paid for with real money". I wonder if anything like this has happened in Second Life, yet, and,

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Since I really enjoyed last week's presentations, I thought I'd blog a bit about my life at work and what I do, currently. I work in Information Services at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. The group I work in is IS Process Management. We are a part of IS Processes and Projects. Now, the name IS Process Management can be a bit misleading since, technically, we don't really manage any processes (or own very

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I just saw this article today from CIO magazine titled, "Why some companies emulate facebook". I'm not sure if anyone's doing their project on facebook (hard to tell from the blogs), but if so, might be interesting...http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2195300,00.asp

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This is pretty weird... Check out http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.htmlWhat side is your brain power on? I was easily able to switch the image back and forth, with a little concentration, so I wonder what that means (although the picture definitely rotated more clockwise than not). You mileage might vary. Basically, the direction that you see the dancer moving in

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We've spent a lot of time in class talking about Second Life (as you can also tell by perusing everyone's blogs), but something has been bothering me about my Second Life experiences and I'm still having some issues coming to grips with it.I am by no means new to the whole 3-D environment from a game perspective - I've been playing 3-D video games for a long time, and the controls are very

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Okay, I've now completely forgotten what I was going to log into this site to post. While in the process of coming here, I accidentally typed in the wrong URL (bookmarks are, apparently, a very good thing), and ended up at "A mega-site of Bible, Christian and religious information and studies. By God's mercy, one of the largest Bible-centered sites on the web (app. 6000 pgs). If it's in the

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Wow, it's been almost a week since I've posted. I've been really busy between work and the wedding planning (getting closer everyday and I feel like we're forgetting some things we need to do).I'm glad to see that Bobbi is getting the hang of blogging (see her post here).I've pretty much said all I need to say about the Eagles earlier, and I don't think I have it in me to complain any more about

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I thought I'd do something different for the case study this week and put my notes for the review questions (posted on Dr. Ahmad's blog) in my blog. In the interest of keeping the dialog open (perhaps even before class tomorrow night), feel free to comment...Please read Blogs at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein case study for Thursday. When you read, think about the following questions:1. Should

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Since Jaha stated in her blog late last night that she wanted to focus on Twitter for Thursday night's discussion, I did some quick searching this morning and came up with a few tidbits that might help:http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=7065041http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2007/09/18/the-great-twitter-experimenthttp://www.adrants.com/2007/09/

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From www.trymango.com:"Dear Visitors,I am proud to present Mango. The first Free enterpriselanguage learning course available on the Internet. Eleven of our courses arenow available in our beta release. Each course has 100 lessons available.We arecommitted to the constant progressive improvement of Mango. You can help usachieve this goal in two ways:By providing suggestions and feedback to

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Second Life plus Twitter for enterprise? by ZDNet's Dennis Howlett -- At the end of last week, I attended a Second Life event organised by Metaversed. ‘Second Life? That’s so 2006,’ I hear the Facebook crowd squak. It may be old hat to some but enterprise players like Sun, Xerox, SAP and Amazon think enough of it that they, along with about 60 0thers turned up [...]

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Wow! Two posts in one day! Aren't you lucky?? :)Anyway, I thought of adding this to the last post, but it was already (too) long enough as it was, so I thought I'd post a quick update on my other Penn State project this semester. As I noted in an earlier post, I have decided to work on developing a mechanism (process/technology) that will allow Penn State Great Valley Students to become more

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I know this is a blog for school, but I'm in the mood to rant today...[rant]What happened to the Eagles? How did we let Jeff Garcia go? Mcnabb isn't quite (or maybe not even close to being) 100% healthy, we go out and draft a rookie QB who may be good, but that'll take a couple of years and we let go a QB who could have played well, got us wins and kept the drive for the playoffs going while

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I have class again tonight, and it's been a long week. I attended the Penn State Faculty Senate meeting at University Park on Tuesday and still made it back in time for my Tuesday night class (SYSEN 554). I spent last night reading a case study for tonight's class and a paper for next Tuesday.I have to write a project proposal paper this weekend for next Tuesday night. After my day at the Faculty

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Okay, I've created this blog, so now it's time to see what we can do with it. This blog is a class requirement for one of my classes, so if it starts to seem weird, it's because I don't know where this is heading yet.Another requirement for the class was to set up an avatar on Second Life (www.secondlife.com) and mine is now known as MasterPo Kungfu (since the whole class needed to use the Kungfu

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