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• In praise of the Hard Drive, 50 years later
  It was on Sept. 13, 1956, that IBM shipped its refrigerator-sized IBM RAMAC 650 HDD: it had a total of 5Mbytes of storage capacity.the whole product was priced at $7,000, which translates to about $1.4 million per gigabyte of storage.
  (tags: harddisk ibm storage mooreslaw disk dvorak)
• A VC: How AOL Ruined Email
  My kids check their email at best once a week. And it’s a chore. Because its mostly an exercise in deleting spam. Email is for old farts. And they wonder why we use it.
  I am sure that AOL is the reason they don’t use email and never will.
  (tags: email spam avc im kids technology future)
• DVD - Tangovideo with Emile, Hülya and Nazan (Stuttgart - Heidelberg, Germany)
  Performance with elements of the beginner´s course (Hülya & Emile)
  The Basic Steps (Deutsch: Emile Sansour)
  Ocho (English: Peter Winn)
  Boleo (Français: Karine Ghesquiere)
  Gancho (Italiano: Luisa Baravalle)
  Sacada (Español: Pa
  (tags: tango milonga course demo dvd video wmv)
• Mike-O-Matic » 7 Tips for the Great Build or Buy Debate
  Do Research Before Building Requirements
  Embrace Change
  Consider Open-Source
  Use Interdiciplinary Committees to Evaluate Demos
  Focus on Flexibility
  Remove The Incentive to Empire-Build
  Ban MS Access Company-Wide
  (tags: management programming business architecture makeorbuy development)
• FusionCharts Lite - Visual examples of real time, animated and interactive flash charts and graphs
  FusionCharts Lite consists of the following six charts:
  3D Column Chart
  3D Bar Chart
  3D Pie Chart
  3D Area Chart
  Line Chart
  Pipe Chart
  (tags: flash charts graphing visualization visualisation barchart piechart)
• The Seven-day Weekend - Peterbe.com
  Why can employees check their work-email on a Sunday but not go to the movies on a Tuesday afternoon?
  Question everything! Ask “why?” at least three times to all things that you think about.
  Working is not only about making money. Considering the amou
  (tags: maverick semco ricardosemler sevendayweekend)
• FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet
  his HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word. It’s lightweight and doesn’t require any kind of installation on the client computer.
  (tags: editor wysiwyg JavaScript ajax open-source wordprocessor)

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