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31 Aug 06

How to Lose the ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ from Your Speech

  • If you're willing to work at it, you can eliminate unnecessary pauses from your speaking. - billso on 2006-08-31
  • One of my largest pet peeves as an audience member, I have to admit, is a platform speaker who does not have his or her 'ums' or 'ahs' under control.

http://www.rocketboom.com/extra/bill_gates_uh/

  • This video has been edited down to show Bill Gates saying 'uh' and 'um' a lot. - billso on 2006-08-31
26 Aug 06

Word Spy - CXO

  • Generic term for a corporate officer
22 Aug 06

Tablet: Personal Computer in the Year 2000 (1988)

  • Wolfram's 1988 description of a tablet computer prototype. - billso on 2006-08-22
20 Aug 06

Hawaii gamblers cash out

  • The state of Hawaii has no office for helping gamblers, because gambling is illegal. - billso on 2006-08-20

  • HAWAII'S LOVE of gambling can also be witnessed in Las Vegas, which is the top destination for islanders and sometimes referred to as the "ninth Hawaiian island."
15 Aug 06

Secure Facility - Nevada

  • Some nice pictures of a secure hosting facility in Nevada. - billso on 2006-08-15
12 Aug 06

What You Can't Say


  • Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and
    been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually
    dress like that?     We did. And we had no idea how
    silly we looked.
    It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the
    same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all
    of us riding on it.

TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X

  • A mashup of EMACS and Mac OS X features. - billso on 2006-08-12
  • TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
03 Aug 06

Regalia 101: All the facts you need about academic regalia

  • Answers to many questions about academic caps, gowns and regalia in US universities. - billso on 2006-08-03
30 Jul 06

Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Kamehemeha Schools would benefit from better governance


  • The dramatic rise in value of the assets of the Bernice P. Bishop Estate has made the estate too large to be properly managed as a trust. A 19th-century trust document is no longer suitable to meet the challenges of the 21st century. As we shall see, almost every provision in the princess' will has been breached.

Creating Passionate Users

  • Kathy Sierra's blog, covers the development process for the "Head First" books, usability, mindmapping, and other topics. - billso on 2006-07-25
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