Archive for July 2002

Keynote Play By Play [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]

What Is EBITDA?. It's every money-losing company's favorite acronym. But how else can you measure cash flow? [The Motley Fool]

Ask Tog: Call Center: Profit or Loss? More and more companies, however, are looking at their call centers as two-way devices, both supplying customers with information, as well as feeding information back into the company itself, both from the call center's experience and their customer's suggestions. [Tomalak's Realm]

Tune-in to the live webcast on Wed, July 17 at 9am ET. [dws.]

Bush looks to harness tech against terrorism. President unveils national security strategy [InfoWorld: Top News]

WTF!? Q: How long does it take Bill Gates to Buy a Small Country? Today, Gates and Perœ president ink IT agreement While only a small six weeks ago, Russell Pavlicek wrote From Peru with Love. A: It takes SIX WEEKS for Bill Gates to buy a small country.

Yahoo's “Anti-Scripting” Filters Examined. It's being reported that Yahoo's free email service is now changing certain words in email messages, supposedly to stop “cross-site scripting attacks”. A good source of information is this article at Need To Know, linked to by (among others) Slashdot, where, predictably, discussion has sprung up about the ethical implications of […]

Know Your Business Models. Do you really understand how companies make money? [The Motley Fool]

The Bates Method: A cure for myopia, an update.. One year ago I posted a story about the Bates method of vision improvement and the partial success I had with it in curing my myopia, astigmatism and amblyopia. When I wrote the story, no web page I was aware of offered a good overview of […]

China's E-Mail/Snail-Mail Idea. In an intriguing, eye-opening notice last week, China's postal service announced it will provide a service to turn e-mail into snail mail, and no, they promise not to read it. By Steve Friess. [Wired News]