Tuesday, January 31, 2006

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Today feedscott.com launched a homepage blog utilizing wordpress. The first entry is a little about what feedscott means and where it came from. The feedscott blog here will continue and will be focused on current technologies. feedscott.com will be focusing on the future of technology and developments. feedscott also has a mambo backend where you can register to help feed the future. view tank is the feedscott opinion blog and mostly will be non tech related but will have an occasional tech trail to follow. As was the case yesterday when Mike from blinklist.com commented on the Information Overload blog recommending I give blinklist a spin. I have now tried blinklist and will comment on that tomorrow.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

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Tech Story of the Day:
tech.memeorandum.com tech and politics
Tech Humor of the Day:
Scientists to hunt "bigfoot" in rainforest
Website of the Day:
btsearcher.com
A Torrent Search Engine Searcher
Music Website of the Day:
Do you know your 90s dance music trivia?
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
About Steve Kubby
Tool Story of the Day:
Torpark Browsing Anonymity Tool
Side Note of the Day:

Thanks for reading the feedscott blog. I started feedscott after resigning from my position at pc club computers in mid december 2005. I did this blog partly to fill some time and to force myself to keep up to date on current events and new trends. I have changed the format a few times but have mostly posted links to other websites, blogs, tech news, and such. Why should i retype what somebody already did. I have created a habit for myself of posting cool links everyday. 52 posts, about 300 links, and over 1000 unique visitors so far.

Due to the fact I am now becoming more serious about my job hunt, I am once again going to change the format of the feedscott blog here. I am thinking about a more conventional format with a paragraph or two about a current tech tip, event, or something tech related. I have also launched feedscott.com and implemented a mamba front end on it. feedscott.com is also going to change as I try to get wordpress running on feedscott.com. The view tank blog is now live and deals with hot topics regarding pretty much anything that happens to be on my mind.

Again, thanks for visiting the feedscott blog and come back again soon.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

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Story of the Day:
West slams Iran nuclear moves
Tech Story of the Day:
Steve Jobs 2006 Apple Keynote Speech
Dry Humor of the Day
Binge eating worse than being unfaithful?
Website of the Day:
egoSurf Check your ego meter!
Music Website of the Day:
Ejamming.com Free 2 week trial on the Mac
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Lebanese Geeks First link found to feed scott
Gadget Story of the Day:
It’s a Mac Sort of, with intel inside.
Side Note of the Day:
I am reposting this from feedscott 1106.
For some reason this did not post or was removed.
I think it had to do with uploading from MS Word

feedscott 2706 Billboard Bit Torrent Challenger

Tech Story of the Day:
US Plan To Fight The Internet Revealed
Tech Humor of the Day:
Teachers skip school, trade on stock market
Website of the Day:
Worlds Best Websites
Music Website of the Day:
Billboard
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Blog Software Breakdown
Tool Story of the Day:
BitTorrent How to
Side Note of the Day:
Remembering Challenger 20 Years Later

Thursday, January 26, 2006

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Tech Story of the Day:
Librarian Tells FBI: Want My Computers? Get a Warrant!
libw

Tech Humor of the Day:
101 Dumbest Moments in Business 05 See # 3
blind

Website of the Day:
LDS.org Have Questions? Get Enlightened!
get enlightened

Music Website of the Day:
Rolling Stone
fresh

Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Utah Saint Techie Blog
jayasbobt

Tool Story of the Day:
Slurp.exe Exposes Threat Of Portable Storage Devices
Slurp

Side Note of the Day:
"Best of the Best" Web Sites and Links
egg heads

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

feedscott 2506 black berry snopes sparkle pixar

Tech Story of the Day:
BlackBerry blackout could be costly
Tech Humor of the Day:
Government support for mail-order brides
Website of the Day:
snopes.com Not G Rated
Music Website of the Day:
A big list of FREE music making software!
Most interesting Blog of the Day
Performancing.com Helping Bloggers
Tool Story of the Day:
Microsoft's Sparkle: Is It a Flash Killer?
Side Note of the Day:
Disney-Pixar gives Steve Jobs a seat at the Hollywood table

Monday, January 23, 2006

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Tech Story of the Day:
Ford to cut 30,000 jobs
Tech Humor of the Day:
Numa Numa The Gary Brolsma phenomenon
Website of the Day:
About.com Information Repository
Music Website of the Day
Distrakt
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Taking RSS Beyond Headlines : Part One
Tool Story of the day
Virtual-Browser.com Browse safely & anonymously!
Side Note of the Day:
More Numa Numa Videos

feedscott 2306 cnet view tank copyscape google

Tech Story of the Day:
Six common sounds of your drive failing
Tech Humor of the Day:
Sounds More Like The Million Dollar Headache
Website of the Day:
CNET.com This site is awsome!
Music Website of the Day:
Music Fan Clubs Directory
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
view tank is launched
Tool Story of the Day:
Copyscape.com Protect your content
Side Note of the Day:
Google leads list of most influential brands

Saturday, January 21, 2006

feedscott 2206 Pluto Yelp Digg PSP Google

Tech Story of the Day:

Pluto mission lifts off
Tech Humor of the Day:
College Chalkboards get Hacked Way Funny!
Website of the Day:
yelp.com
Music Website of the Day:
iCompositions
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
The "Blogging tips" series
Tool Story of the Day:
Digg on PSP
Side Note of the Day:
ABC tour of Google

feedscott 2106 Zonealarm Hacker Fraud Crime

Tech Story of the Day:
ZoneAlarm phones home, Apple throws Intel a bone
Tech Humor of the Day:
People search for the strangest things
Website of the Day:
Life Hacker Web Apps
Music Website of the Day:
Sputnikmusic.com
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
online fraud magazine Protect Yourself
Tool Story of the Day:
Sitepal Play with the demo you'll love it!
Side Note of the Day:
9 Of 10 Companies Hit By Computer Crime, FBI Says

Friday, January 20, 2006

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Tech Story of the Day:
Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests
Tech Humor of the Day:
Apple caught cheating on RSS standard
Website of the Day:
programmable web mashups APIs and more
Music Website of the Day:
Sponsored results for music downloads
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Feedxs No Blog No Problem
Tool Story of the Day:
meboo.com 6 chats in 1
Side Note of the Day:
Poetry or al Qaeda instructions
Hire google to search for bin Laden!

Thursday, January 19, 2006

feedscott 1906 Future Comics Tutorials Web 2.0

Tech Story of the Day:
future PCs
Tech Humor of the Day:
Computer Comics
Website of the Day:
pixel2life Tech Tutorials
Music Website of the Day:
last.fm Social music tagging
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Web 2.0 Blog Buzz Apps
Tool Story of the Day:
Tail Rank Blog filter
Side Note of the Day:
feedscott.com is LIVE but needs alot of work!

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

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Tech Story of the Day:
Gamer Commits Suicide, Media Misreports
Tech Humor of the Day:
Postponed in respect for the Gamer
Website of the Day:
Reddit Similar to Digg.com but all news
Music Website of the Day:
All Music Guide
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
The Blog You Watch
Tool Story of the Day:
Num Sum Online spreadsheet
Side Note of the Day:
Our condolences go out to the family and friends of the Gamer

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

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Tech Story of the Day:
Internet users judge Web sites in less than a blink
Tech Humor of the Day:
Quick! Move that TV into the den!
Website of the Day:
Jordo Media
Music Website of the Day:
Star Pulse
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
A List Apart
Tool Story of the Day:
Basecamp
Side Note of the Day:
feedscott.com has gone mambo!

Monday, January 16, 2006

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Story of the Day:
The Iranian Tipping Point
Tech Story of the Day:
Cisco to Pack Retail Shelves
Dry Humor of the Day:
Vampire seeks governor's job
Website of the Day:
Google
Music Website of the Day:
Radio Blog Club
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
CyberWyre
Tool Story of the Day:
World’s Smallest GPS Receiver
Side Note of the Day:
feedscott.com is down but not out

Sunday, January 15, 2006

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Story of the Day:
Lawyer: Teen Shot by Police Brain Dead
Tech Story of the Day:
RIAA Try New Scare Tactics
Dry Humor of the Day:
Thief on horseback steals cell phone
Website of the Day:
gigCalendar.com a tool for traveling musicians
Music Website of the Day:
Itunes had to happen eventually
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Download videos from Youtube, Google, and ifilm
Tool Story of the Day:
The Logo Creator
Side Note of the Day:
Sorry, I missed the blog yesterday, but
check out the new template at feedscott.com

Thursday, January 12, 2006

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Story of the Day:
www.feedscott.com is launched on 1/11/2006
Tech Story of the Day:
Crash test dummies won't need to be lonely anymore
Website of the Day:
extremetech.com ad from Patrick Norton’s show
Music Website of the Day:
Pulse Rated Satellite & Internet Radio
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Digg, Del.icio.us, Kaboodle and Wink by: Thomas Hawk
Gadget Story of the Day:
Pixound Jam Studio Turns Art into Music
Side Note of the Day:
What is www.feedscott.com?
Keep checking back for more info
I know I haven’t done the podcast for awhile
but I have been busy working on feedscott.com
my apologies and I will get it started again soon.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

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Story of the Day:
Wider Fight Is Seen As Alito Victory Appears Secured
Tech Story of the Day:
feedscott.com has its first linked page, I know I know!
Dry Humor of the Day
Sober driver flees police drink check, crashes
Website of the Day:
Tech Support Alert 46 best freeware utilities
Music Website of the Day:
100-downloads.com not all music related but enough
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Tech Blog $40,000 hard drive
Gadget Story of the Day:
Fresh Gray Home Appliances
Side Note of the Day:
Bill Gates wealth index

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Steve Jobs finds Bug in Apple

At Steve Jobs keynote address at the Moscone Center in San Francisco 2005. His Mac system locked and He said he found a Bug. Steve quickly recovered by switching to a backup system. Reminiscent of the Bill Gates Blue Screen of Death BSOD incident at the Windows launch party and recently at CES with a media center freeze up and another BSOD trying to configure virtual hot rods.

Has Google Secretly Launched an ISP?

Tonight on 1/10/2006 as I was checking my web stats I came across a hit with GOOGLE listed as the ISP. The IP Address 64.233.172. # (GOOGLE) and the City was Mountain View with the State listed as California and Google does have offices there. I can only find rumors on the net of a Google ISP and wonder if this is just from a google internal network or a spoof. I am submitting to Digg.com for review.

Here is the link to the site meter page picture on Flickr: Google Hit

After submitting to Digg for review, some of the comments included that this hit might have been a google adsense proxy server which would make sense. Also, another person stated that google is already an ISP offering WiFi service in some places. Here are some links to Google Rumored ISP Info:

What’s Next For Google - ISP, Browser, Desktop Search?


What’s next for Google! 5 things that comes to my mind…

Google ISP: Speculation Mania

Google ISP Rumor

GoogleNet Is Coming…

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Story of the Day:
'Bin Laden ordered Israel strike'
Tech Story of the Day:
Apple's Big Decision: Time To Open Up?
Dry Humor of the Day
The blind feeding the blind..
Website of the Day:
Digg.com Again! “Rated # 1 at 69% share”
Music Website of the Day:
Musictheory.net Flash Music lessons and tutorials
Interesting Blog of the Day:
Top 100 Digg Stories of 2005
Gadget Story of the Day:
Segway rules CES Transpo of the future is here
Side Note of the Day:
The “Wow” signal Old story but very interesting

Monday, January 09, 2006

Scotts Resume

Contact: feedscott@feedscott.com

SCOTTS RESUME SUMMARY

Manager with marketing and leadership expertise. Experience in negotiating solutions for both internal and external systems. Proven record of dedicated coordination in complex operations.

FOCUS AREAS
* Marketing tactics and strategies
* Team and interpersonal skills
* Fiscal responsibility
* Customer values
* Resource allocation
* Total Quality Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS
* Hands-On Programming in Visual Basic, C++, SQL, HTML, XML, VS, .NET and Scripting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PC Club Computers, Colorado 2003-2005
Manager / District Manager
Led and directed managers in technical solution and service environments.

* Opened and marketed three PC Club Computer stores in Colorado.

* Researched and provided comparative S.W.O.T. analysis of local markets.

* Developed a tactical marketing program that was key in surpassing sales and margin goals.

* Negotiated advertising contracts for print, radio, T.V., online and other media channels.

* Engaged in networking COOP relationships with Intel, Qwest, SUN, and Corporate Express.

* Provided input to the Vice President on ways to improve company and product branding.

Computers N Music, Colorado Springs, Colorado 2002-2003
Computer Consultant / Technician
Supported both Macintosh and PC client base with software and hardware solutions.

* Managed sales and service departments.

* Performed merchandising and strategic positioning of products.

Gateway Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado 2000-2002
Technical Support Professional
Supported military, business and consumer client base with technical issue resolutions.

* Effectively served clients, preventing return of systems and avoiding costly refunds, replacements, and customer attrition, saving the company more than $100,000 annually.

* Coached call center technicians on diagnoses, reduced call times by 33%, increased productivity and client satisfaction.

* Organized team to support Denver service center, improved repair times from 12 days to 6 days and significantly increased customer satisfaction.

* Recognized by peers as Top Team Player in 4 out of 5 quarters.

Ruby Tuesday International, Colorado Springs, Colorado 1998-2000
Service Trainer
Worked with and trained sales staff on operations of computer systems and procedures.

Red Robin International, Colorado/ Washington State 1994-1998
Manager / Regional Manager
Responsible for product purchase, budget management, quality control, inventory management, database administration, hiring, training and supporting the management staff for 3 separate operations.

* Set up a computer automated ordering system for managers, reducing time spent in submitting orders by 40%. This increased order accuracy by 5%.

* Increased team productivity, resulting in a sales increase of over 15% from $1.5 to $1.7 million, through training, coaching, and developing managers in a positive environment. This translated to customer satisfaction with repeat and referral business.

* Revised and maintained the database to track usage and waste which more accurately balanced weekly Profit and Loss statements. Exceeded all metric goals for the year, and was formally recognized by the President of the company for leading the team.

EDUCATION

Colorado Technical University
Associate of Science Degree in Information Technology
Graduate - 4.0 GPA

feed scott 9 06

Story of the Day:
Dow crosses 11,000 for 1st time since 2001
Tech Story of the Day:
First comet samples coming to Earth
Dry Humour
Sad, on so many levels..
Website of the Day:
Everything2.com Blog Community
Music Website of the Day:
MusicClick.com
Interesting Blogs of the Day:
Selling your soul on eBay
I sold my soul on eBay
Gadget Story of the Day:
Gizmodo The Blog about Gadgets
Side Note of the Day:
First Remote Audioblogger from feedscott

first feed scott remote blog 9 06

this is an audio post - click to play

Sunday, January 08, 2006

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Top Story of the Day:
Doctors Plan to Lift the Coma, Then Test Sharon's Abilities
Top Tech Story of the Day:
Google launches direct challenge to Microsoft
Dry Humour Story of the Day:
Pets losing battle of the bulge?
Website of the Day:
Putfile Picture and Video Hosting
Music Website of the Day:
What makes music so significant
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Google Blogoscoped
Gadget Story of the Day:
Creative Zen
Side Note of the Day:
Remote Audio Blogger coming here soon

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Digg Facts, Stats and Trivia:

Digg Facts, Stats and Trivia:

13,710 diggs have reached the front page from 6442 users.
Digg has well over 100,000 registered users
25 Diggs was the lowest I found to be able to reach the front page.
This story was about Google opens new R&D center in Shibuya, Tokyo
25 Diggs was 394 days ago. Not sure what the break point is now.

Top User is Albertpacino.
Al has 780 stories that have made the front page.

Trivia from a wiki:

On October 15, 2005, Digg.com reached 100,000 stories submitted.
Near the end of November 2005, Digg.com broke the 100,000 registered users barrier.
On December 4th, 2005, a story about an abusive New York camera store called Price Rite Photo was submitted by blogger and Digg member Thomas Hawk. The story received a little over 8000 diggs (5000 of which occurred in the first 24 hours of submission) and had a little over 1000 comments, breaking the record for the most diggs and comments a story had ever received on Digg.com. Flooded with spam and prank calls, the camera store apologized to Mr. Hawk.

The New York camera story now has 8493 Diggs.

Death of TechTV

The full story behind what happened to TechTV.

read more | digg story

Google Co-Founder Calls For More Device Standards

Google co-founder Larry Page called for more standards and connectivity between different devices and manufacturers.

read more | digg story

Simple way to defend your XP computer

Instructions to defend your Windows XP computer on the net, by setting limited permissions to limit malicious activities on a Windows XP computer.

Most people run as an administrator on their Windows XP computers by default. It is like running as a root admin on a Linux computer.

To prevent some spy ware and other malicious activities from occurring while on the internet set up a limited user account for safer surfing.

Of course, this is not a substitute for firewall, virus or spy ware protection, but just another line of defense. Follow these instructions below:

1. Click on Start > Settings> Control Panel
2. In Control Panel click on User Accounts
3. Under Pick a task click on “create new account”
4. Type in a name for the new account like “Surf Safe” click next
5. In the next window choose “limited” not administrator
6. Then click “create account”
7. Your finished

You can add a password to the new account if you need to.

I hope this helps you.

If you have questions please leave a comment.

Friday, January 06, 2006

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Today was bittersweet. A CNN story I submitted to digg.com was promoted to the front page. By being on the front page, the story went out over the digg RSS feed. The reason for the bitter is that the story had to do with the death of innocent civilians that were in the wrong house at the wrong time. The reason I submitted the story was the fact that an Unmanned surveillance plane watched bomb hit wrong house. The CNN title was "U.S. says bomb hit wrong house in Iraq." I submitted the story under the category of robots which does not get a lot of attention compared to other categories inside digg. I went to bed not expecting that there would not be much interest, but in the morning come to find this story on the front page of digg. To my surprise the diggers had gotten ahold of this story and were heatedly commenting and debating it. Read diggers comments by clicking on comments. My thought on this is that diggers are not the hardened geeks and techies that most of the articles are about on digg. Tech diggers have a very caring and compassionate side that is portrayed by some of their comments. Politics aside diggers are sensitive, informed and very opinionated.

Top Story of the Day:
Unmanned surveillance plane watched bomb hit wrong house
Top Tech Story of the Day:
Spammer lands a 11.2 million dollar fine
Dry Humour Story of the Day:
Is it too late to change to a different army?
Website of the Day:
Clipfire.com A shopping search engine
Music Website of the Day:
bemetal.com How to Make a Music Podcast
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
del.icio.us Tag Tool Heaven
IPOD Story of the Day:
Hak.5 Wess builds a laser audio transmitter for his IPOD
Side Note of the Day:
Be your Best!

Unmanned surveillance plane watched bomb hit wrong house

The bomb, which was dropped by a U.S. fighter plane, was aimed at a building that three men entered after planting a roadside bomb as an unmanned surveillance plane watched from overhead, the officials said.

read more | digg story

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Bill Gates Lusted After Palm

Are Bill Gates and Microsoft mellowing with age? He seems to be more device and hardware friendly than software focused as his comments and alliances suggest. At CES this is what Bill had to say about Palm:

"As we move from that low penetration up to getting all of those users, there's a lot of devices to be sold, there's a lot of network capacity to be used to allow people to work in a very seamless way. Of course, we've been in doing software for mobile devices and PDAs for quite some time. In fact, many years of that, we had a very good competition between ourselves, and Palm and others. Palm always did great work, and so we lusted after some of those things that they do well, and wanted to combine them with the things that we did well ( like monopolizing), and so it's wonderful to see that coming together. "

Is Gates moving from a search, destroy, or assimilate strategy to a "all your base are already belong to us" strategy?

Run windows update now for XP and 2000 now!


From TWIT

"As we've told you in the past two editions of Security Now! there's a very serious security flaw in all versions of Windows. This hole takes advantage of poor design choice in the Windows metafile interpreter and can be exploited by a malicious web site or by email attachments.

There are hundreds of malicious sites out there right now that take advantage of this vulnerability. Microsoft pushed a fix for Windows XP and 2000 today - so run Windows update. There is no fix yet for Windows 95/98/Me but Steve has committed to writing one if it appears to be necessary.

In this episode we talk about the vulnerability and interview the creator of the first patch for it, Ilfak Guilanov. According to Steve's analysis, Microsoft is using Ilfak's technique in its own patch."

feedscott 5 06

Top Story of the Day:
Israel's Sharon clings to life after stroke
Top Tech Story of the Day:
Bill Gate CES Keynote
Dry Humour Story of the Day:
Fark.com Fotos or Photos Must See!
Website of the Day:
Flickr Web Image Posting and Sharing
Music Website of the Day:
RefDesk.com Music Encyclopedia
Most Interesting Blogs of the Day:
David Letterman vs Bill O'Reilly Multiples
IPOD Story of the Day:
I-POD heist caught on camera Watch Video
Side Notes of the Day:
Wiki "All your base are belong to us!"
Article "All your base are belong to us!"
Dig "All your base are belong to us"

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

In memory of Jackson Lan - PC CLUB Founder

PC Club Mourns Passing of President Jackson Lan

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you the death of Mr. Jackson Lan, the President of PC Club. A fine example of entrepreneurship and visionary in the computer retail industry, Jackson died of cancer in the City of Hope hospital on 12/23/05 at the age of 55.

Our most respected President has long been a determined and outstanding leader. Prior to moving to the United States in 1989, Jackson had already demonstrated his knowledge and leadership as the General Manager of US operations for VIP Computer Inc., District Sales Manager for Hewlett-Packard Taiwan Ltd., and Program Manager/Business Process Re-engineering for Nan Ya Plastic Co. Ltd.

In 1991, Jackson formed Computer Wholesale Inc. in the City of Industry, California with great vision and anticipation. Soon after the wholesale business started, Jackson quickly realized that in order for his business to succeed, he must focus on customer service and add value to the products sold to the customers. Therefore, the first PC Club retail store was opened in 1992. Under his leadership, PC Club has grown to be a nationwide enterprise with 58 stores in 12 states today. During the last 14 years, the company was repeatedly listed as the Top 500 fastest growing private company by Inc Magazine, named Top 100 Retailers and Top 10 Innovators by Computer Retail Week as well as Top 100 CE Retailers and Top 50 PC Retailers by Twice Magazine.

From 1993 to 1994, Jackson served as the President of the Southern California Chinese Computer Association (SCCCA). Proven by the success of the company, Jackson was a finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997. In the following year, Jackson’s achievement and leadership were further recognized by the government of Taiwan. He received the honorable Overseas Chinese Award and the Overseas Chinese Young Entrepreneur Award.

In his latter years, Jackson became a dedicated Buddhist. Combining Buddhism and his wisdom, he developed his philosophy of life - “Happiness, Love, Harmony, Cleanse, Execution” (“喜愛圓淨行”). This philosophy goes hand in hand with his famous phrase “A Better Day, Everyday”. It also became the source of power for Jackson to battle with the cancer without fear but with incredible faith. His business theories and philosophies of life not only posted a positive impact on employees’ professionalism, but also provided insight to their personal life.

Memorial services for Jackson will be held on January 7, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the Memorial Chapel of Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary (www.rosehills.com). In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the “Jackson Lan Foundation”, an organization dedicated to support the research of finding a cure for cancer and work together with other non-profit organizations to promote "A Better Day, Everyday.” The address is P.O. Box 92195, City of Industry, CA 91714.

Andrew Lin, Vice President
Jeff Lan, Vice President

Info links about Jackson Lan and his company:

June 1, 2002
PC Club
Company specializes in do-it-yourself upgrades.


PC Club Company Profile

PC CLUB Forum


PC CLUB Website

feed scott 4 06

Top Story of the Day:
Grief, anger as all but one miner found dead
Top Tech Story of the Day:
CES 2006 is 24 hours away, and we're ready to go!
Dry Humour Story of the Day from Reuters Oddly Enough:
Animals know stupid when they see it
Website of the Day:
Battlenetworks.com
Music Website of the Day:
Yahoo Lyrics
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Boing Boing Rated # 1 by Technorati
IPOD Story of the Day from Digg:
Writer: I've never used an iPod or iTunes,
but I think people who do are dupes
Side note of the Day:
Fark.com

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Outsourcing will last for 30 more years

For how long with the wage differential be lucrative enough for companies to keep outsourcing? A recent study finds that we are talking of about 30 years.

read more | digg story

Man's Sexy Online Girlfriend Turns Out to Be His Mother

A self-professed playboy in France spent nearly six months chatting up a sensual-sounding woman online before arranging to meet. But when they did, he got the mother of all surprises.

read more | digg story

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Top Story of the Day:
Families pray for trapped miners
Top Tech Story of the Day:
Google PC to Hit Walmart?
Dry Humour Story of the Day:
Rowdy air passenger cast away on remote island
Website of the Day:
Buzzle.com Find other cool websites!
Music Website of the Day:
Big Head Todd and the Monsters BHTM
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel
IPOD Story of the Day:
'EyeBud' for the iPod Video
Side Note of the Day:
The History of RSS

Here is the history of RSS according to Dave Winer
(key developer of most of the RSS formats):

  • Dec. 1997 - Dave Winer developed scriptingNews
  • Mar. 1999 - RSS 0.90 was developed by Netscape, which supported the scriptingNews format. This was simply XML with a RDF Header
  • Jun. 1999 - scriptingNews 2.0b1 was developed by Dave Winer at UserLand. This included Netscape's RSS 0.90 features
  • Jul. 1999 - RSS 0.91 was an attempt by Netscape to move towards a more standard format and included most features from scriptingNews 2.0b1 but they removed the RDF header
  • Jul. 1999 - UserLand uses RSS 0.91 and gets rid of scriptingNews
  • Netscape discontinues their RSS development
  • Jun. 2000 - Official RSS 0.91 specification release from UserLand
  • Aug. 2000 - RSS 1.0 developed by a group lead by Rael Dornfest at O'Reilly. This format uses RDF and namespaces. Because of its name it is often confused as being a new version of 0.91, but this is a completely new format with no ties to RSS 0.91
  • Dec. 2000 - RSS 0.92 developed by Dave Winer at UserLand and includes optional elements
  • Sep. 2002 - RSS 2.0 is designed by Dave Winer after leaving Userland
  • Jul. 2003 - RSS 2.0 specification released through Harvard under a Creative Commons license

Monday, January 02, 2006

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Top Story of the Day:
Terror shadow stalks 'India's Silicon Valley'
Top Tech Story of the Day:
Windows PCs face ‘huge’ virus threat Ongoing
Dry Humour Story of the Day:
Pricey coffee good to the last dropping cream? sugar? or...
Website of the Day:
The Hive
Music Website of the Day:
Computers n Music
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Blog Site Comparison Chart

Sunday, January 01, 2006

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Top Story of the Day:
Stars May Be Aligned for Jan. Stock Rally 2006 Boom or Bust?
Top Tech Story of the Day:
Annual Gadget Show Is Biggest Ever
Dry Humour Story of the Day:
2005 offers fresh tales of the comically bizarre to observers of the human race

Website of the Day:
The Webby Awards
Music Website of the Day:
How to fill that video IPod - for free
Most Interesting Blog of the Day:
Martin's Musings