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Archive for May, 2008

Giving a Technical Presentation soon?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

If you have to give a technical presentation check out Scott Hanselman’s “11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation“. He offers some excellent things to think about prior to your presentation. Some of the tips are general enough that they apply to any presentation, not jut a technical presentation.
One of the tips he seems [...]

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update: this post got lost in the drafts so it’s being published a little late.
CNN is reporting a genetic study shows humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago. The study says a drought had left the human population possibly as low as 2,000 people in small groups throughout Africa.
It’s pretty amazing to think the human [...]

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Search Safely with Yahoo!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Searching the web through Yahoo! just became much safer thanks to a new feature called SearchScan. Every time you search the web using Yahoo you will see warning messages alongside the results alerting you to potentially dangerous websites. What a great feature! Now you have a heads up whenever a site you’re about to visit [...]

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