Theme for 2008: Togakure Ryu Ninjutsu
One of the really nice things about the martial art I practice is that each year has a theme, an area of focus that helps practitioners zoom in on a particular way of thinking and set of strategies. This past year, 2007, was the year of Kukishinden Ryu, or the [...]

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This one caught my eye. Not sure if it’s the tune, or the very well done animation, but it’s good stuff. Hat tip to Lisa Amorao on Facebook for pointing this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o

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Michelle Wolverton asked this tricky question:
How can I forward Twitter DMs (direct messages) automagically so I can receive them like email?
The answer is: a series of tubes! Pipes, actually. Here’s how to do it.
First, you’ll need three things. A Twitter account, a Yahoo Pipes account, and a Google Reader account. Start by investigating which kinds [...]

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Counting down to 2008
Christmas has come and gone and now we approach probably my favorite holiday of the holiday season - New Year’s Day. I love that for many people on the Gregorian calendar, it’s a perceived fresh start, a way to reboot, a way to mentally delineate between what was and what could be.
Some [...]

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I have a reasonably large LinkedIn network, and as such, I receive LOTS of requests for introductions, networking, etc. as the end user and as a conduit for third parties. If you’re in my LinkedIn network, I’m now going to start including a little text nibblet in the introductions I forward, as follows:

TL0 - Trust [...]

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Money is based only on faith
I had the terrific experience of speaking in front of high school students today, and the part that I think disturbed them most was the opening discussion about money and where it comes from. It’s unsettling to a lot of people to realize that money - currency - has no [...]

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I’ve been giving this a lot of thought as I work on a presentation for Emerson College tomorrow night with Chris Brogan. What is community, in a world where friends can be a click away but a thousand miles apart, where you can be next to someone but can’t talk except via Twitter, where you [...]

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Scratch troubled, we are screwed as a country
I read with great alarm on CFO.com that as the housing and mortgage crisis deepens, people are dipping into or even cashing out retirement funds.
“In the last four or five months we have seen an absolute onslaught of people trying to do hardship withdrawals and loans out of [...]

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Could you use an extra $45,000 per week?
If so, you might want to consider having a subscription object written for you in Second Life.
A “bonus” called an allowance is issued in Second Life every week to residents. It’s L$50, or roughly US$0.18 per avatar.
18 cents doesn’t sound like much, but hire a developer to create [...]

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Dear music industry,
Please make it easier to be legally compliant.
Thanks.
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I had an unpleasant experience this morning in the iTunes Store. I mentioned on Twitter to my friend, Bronwen Clune, that Josh Groban’s new album, Noel, had a very good version of Little Drummer Boy on it. I figured, heck, it’s only 99 cents, I’d send [...]

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