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Archive for the 'Business' Category


MS Office Ribbon Interactive Guides

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Business | No Comments »

After 18 months of using MS Office 2007 I can’t even begin to describe how much I loath and detest these Ribbons that Macrosquish has forced on everyone. Its not a matter of them being different but rather the fact that they are completely and utterly useless unless you have never been a poweruse of [...]

SEC Ponzification

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Business, Economics | No Comments »

So apparently the SEC is now taking the bull by the horns and reviewing cases “as they come in” about new ponzi schemes (see Time’s news article). What strikes me as being so weird about this is that, for all the ‘new direction’ and safety and security of the financial industry that the SEC is [...]

Future of Virtual Worlds

Friday, January 9th, 2009
Business, IM/IT | No Comments »

So anyone that knows anything about my work with Rockcliffe University Consortium knows that the entire business model is both virtual and constructed within an environment called “Second Life“. Recently there have been a whole pile of competitors to the Second Life Grid not to mention the numerous other virtual world platforms that are available [...]