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June 2009
6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Future of Search - Google Beware
by fredgood
sers have the option of getting answers from their network of people who they actually trust. On the other hand, Google gives you a page of links compiled by their quality algorithm. Sure, Google returns pretty good search results most of the time, but they’re impersonal and sometimes irrelevant to what you really want. Getting in touch with your network via Twitter is the best way to get reliable information you can trust. For example, if you had a question about life in the NBA, would you rather ask Shaquille O’Neal on Twitter or type a question in Google?
May 2009
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April 2009
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
by tadeufilippini
(via)
1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross, 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary and The Apostles Creed.
2. Then on the Our Father Beads say the following:
Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
3. On the 10 Hail Mary Beads say the following:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
(Repeat step 2 and 3 for all five decades).
4. Conclude with (three times):
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
In 1933, God gave Sister Faustina a striking vision of His Mercy,
Sister tells us:
"I saw a great light, with God the Father in the midst of it.
Between this light and the earth I saw Jesus nailed to the Cross
and in such a way that God, wanting to look upon the earth, had to
look through Our Lord's wounds and I understood that God blessed
the earth for the sake of Jesus."
Of another vision on Sept. 13, 1935, she writes:
"I saw an Angel, the executor of God's wrath... about to strike
the earth...I began to beg God earnestly for the world with words
which I heard interiorly. As I prayed in this way, I saw the
Angel's helplessness, and he could not carry out the just
punishment...."
The following day an inner voice taught her to say this prayer on
ordinary rosary beads:
"First say one 'Our Father', 'Hail Mary', and 'I believe'. Then on
the large beads say the following words:
'Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity
of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement
for our sins and those of the whole world.'
On the smaller beads you are to say the following words:
'For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the
whole world.'
In conclusion you are to say these words three times:
'Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us
and on the whole world'.
Jesus said later to Sister Faustina:
"Say unceasingly this chaplet that I have taught you. Anyone who
says it will receive great Mercy at the hour of death. Priests
will recommend it to sinners as the last hope. Even the most
hardened sinner, if he recites this Chaplet even once, will
receive grace from My Infinite Mercy. I want the whole world to
know My Infinite Mercy. I want to give unimaginable graces to
those who trust in My Mercy...."
"....When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I
will stand between My Father and the dying person not as the just
judge but as the Merciful Savior".
March 2009
Brand loyalty
by irols
Abstract Brands are important in the consumer market. They are the interface between consumers and the company, and consumers may develop loyalty to brands. This study proposes that trust in a brand is important and is a key factor in the development of brand loyalty. Factors hypothesized to influence trust in a brand include a number of brand characteristics, company characteristics and consumer-brand characteristics. Respondents representing a broad spectrum of Singapore consumers were surveyed. The findings reveal that brand characteristics are relatively more important in their effects on a consumer's trust in a brand. The results also show that trust in a brand is positively related to brand loyalty. Marketers should, therefore, take careful consideration of brand factors in the development of trust in a brand.
Wrapping up the week - Tao of Mac
by karlcow
I borrowed a copy of JavaScript: The Good Parts and have been playing around with that hideous language to the extent that I now think of it as lambda calculus with semicolons (which is good, trust me).
February 2009
Trading Currency ETFs
by polyxena
ETFs retain the valuation feature of a unit trust, which can be purchased/redeemed at the end of each day for its net value - but you’re not limited to trading at the close price. An ETF is continually priced through market trading hours and so intra-day trading becomes possible. (Not something that ever went on with unit trusts or mutual funds).
SoCon09 - welcome back to Atlanta | Introspection
by greut
Hire the best, fire the rest
Hiring the wrong people cost:
- Time
- Money
- Culture
You'll never say it too much, trust me.
January 2009
Megaupload Auto-Fill Captcha - Greasemonkey - OCR in Java
by decembre
Auto-fills the megaupload/megarotic captcha and optionally auto-starts download: Rewritten to do OCR in javascript, auto-submit for captcha form. Warning: This runs methods from unsafeWindow, so don't use it if you don't trust megaupload.com since it's possible to use that to run javascript with more privileges. I might write a GIF decoder to avoid this soon.
snubster - beta
by pooky_a
& 8 others
Impossible de ne pas chantonner : "Antisocial, tu perds ton sang-froid (...)"... Merci, Trust, vous n'avez pas pris une ride !
isolatr beta
by pooky_a
Impossible de ne pas chantonner : "Antisocial, tu perds ton sang-froid (...)"... Merci, Trust, vous n'avez pas pris une ride !
Introvertster
by pooky_a
Impossible de ne pas chantonner : "Antisocial, tu perds ton sang-froid (...)"... Merci, Trust, vous n'avez pas pris une ride !
December 2008
People don’t trust company blogs. What you should do about it.
by karlcow
Consumers trust company blogs less than any other channel.
Mokka mit Schlag » You Can’t Trust the Cloud
by karlcow
Les gens se réveillent petit à petitTraditional payware like Oracle, Perforce, and Microsoft Office had lockin issues, but at least you controlled the software. Vendors couldn’t (usually) shut you down just because they decided your app no longer fit their business model. Cloud vendors can, and you have little to no recourse when they do.
November 2008
Ubiquity __Presentation ____Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive »
by decembre
& 5 others
Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to: * Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.) * Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.) * Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility. * Extend the browser functionality easily.
To Prevent Bubbles, Restrain the Fed - WSJ.com
by ERSWeb
(via)
Obama would be a fool to trust his economy to the discretion of central bankers.
October 2008
September 2008
Government Seizes WaMu and Sells Some Assets - NYTimes.com
by karlcow
Washington Mutual, with $307 billion in assets, is by far the biggest bank failure in history, eclipsing the 1984 failure of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust in Chicago, an event that presaged the savings and loan crisis. IndyMac, which was seized by regulators in July, was one-tenth the size of WaMu.
…My heart’s in Accra » Picnic08 - Genevieve Bell on secrets and lies.
by karlcow
Repeated in long discussions with Boris (yes that boris) many years ago in Montreal. Lies are a social feature. They are part of the glue of human relationships. The same way that trust is a shortcut mechanism for life. We trust because we don't want to check everything every time. We lie because we want to smooth our life. It is about polishing to avoid to have sharp wood in our fingers.
August 2008
bibliotheque OPAC.02 : Une experience pour avoir Google comme moteur de recherche dans l'opac (Get Tooled Up : 'Looking for a Google Box?')
by decembre
There are, perhaps, four directions we can take:
1. Evaluate the complete range of closed and open source offerings, pick the best, and be prepared to pay a yearly licence fee of an unknown amount
2. Develop our own private search engine, possibly based on ht://Dig [3] or egothor [4] code
3. Make use of the free Google index of our pages
4. License Google technology to do local indexing
Each route has its attractions, but the latter two are particularly attractive because of the high degree of trust in, and familiarity with, Google. But the public search has problems:
* Google cannot see inside our protected sites
* Every search transaction has to leave our site, is dependent on international networks, and uses up bandwidth
* The depth and frequency of search is not guaranteed
* Google may withdraw the service at any time
