Nov. 12, 2007
Take your Grade Nine Student to the IT department Day users
IT World Canada
Shane Schick connects with the kids.
”Dependent as they are on hardware and software, there probably aren’t a lot of people in other lines of business who would dutifully sit down with you and listen, as this young man did, to the minutiae of an IT manager’s daily grind.”
How to Hack the Holidays and Score the Best Deals Online
Wired
Terrence Russell is counting-down the e-shopping days until Christmas.
“The onset of the holiday shopping season is as inevitable as death and taxes. However, unlike death and taxes, the stress associated with shopping can be minimized with a few nifty shopping hacks. You just have to understand the marketing and pricing strategies employed by most online retailers.”
Larry Ellison has at least one oversized ball
Wired
Owen Thomas has Larry Eilson in his sarcastic sights.
” I’ve always heard Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had big cojones. No photographic proof, alas, has arrived at Valleywag yet. But this gigantic disco ball — so large it had to be transported by flatbed truck — for an event at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, which starts tomorrow, seems proof enough.“
