http://www.chrishardie.com Personal Website and Blog for James Christopher Hardie Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:20:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.chrishardie.com/2008/03/links-for-the-week-march-26-2008/ http://www.chrishardie.com/2008/03/links-for-the-week-march-26-2008/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:12:53 +0000 Chris http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/archives/2008/03/links-for-the-week-march-26-2008.html

What kinds of information the NSA is collecting about your communications – it’s not paranoia if they’re really after you. And they have really cool PDAs to do it with.

The Feminist Review – bloggers calling patriarchy as they see it

Geni – free Web 2.0 enabled online genealogy software

The Onion nails it again: You know what’s stupid? Everything I don’t understand – “God, all the people, places, and things I haven’t made the least bit of effort to comprehend should just die already.”

Get up to $15,000 for a project in your hometown – I love seeing this kind of use of the web.

Some E-Cards – for when you care enough to hit send

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In the theme of nefarious co-opting important activist ideas into consumerist culture, apparently the cosmetics and plastic surgery industries are working on appealing to women with a new and unfortunate message: conforming to traditional notions of beauty is the new feminism.

If you’ve ever received junk e-mail, you may be interested in the massive network of zombie computers (maybe even yours) that is powering the efforts of spammers and network abusers everywhere: Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets. Scary stuff.

When you are in conflict with a partner, there are only two possible intentions: you either intend to protect yourself from hurt feelings or you intend to learn and grow from the experience. The difference between the two approaches can be the difference between successful conflict resolution and failure.

Richmond residents are invited to a debate between mayoral candidates Sally Hutton and Rick Thalls this Wednesday. And did you know there are 17 people currently running for President of the United States? Wow.

For consultants: Every project and every office has multiple personality types. How you work with them and how you manage the rationale of decisions and feedback is crucial to your success. By applying the right relationship management techniques, you can calm tension, communicate more easily, run your projects more efficiently — and you might get additional work since the relationship with the client will be strong from beginning to end.

What does it mean to be on the ball? It means you’ve got good Flow. Especially important if you’re creating websites.

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