Thursday, September 16, 2010

Technics: 500 List: Tech companies organized and sortable by name, industry, numerical rank

With a little research you may find on this list, a number of factoid gems for your own reflection, ethical investing, and structural ins+t into industries and companies, as well as the American tech economy overall. The 500 list, however, is not the usual economically-indexed one.  Rather, it is a tech-usage ranking that  supplies data on revenue totals, h+est ranking IT executive of each company listed, title of the chief information officer, and industry.  In clicking the charted list to Industry mode, you get a profile of the several industries and industrial sectors represented.

This service is furnished by Information Week's Tech Business webs+t.  I get the email newsletter of this s+t, as well those for Govt Tech (a major market for the Tech Biz players), and the Grok on Google newsletter.

-- Technowlb

Information Week's parent UBM Techweb produces a huge series of such newsletters.  It styles itself as 

"Global Leader in Technology Media

 and Business Information"

 Here's the stable for all its newshorses:


Enabling People and Organizations to Harness 
the Transformative Power of Technology

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Technics: 500 List: Tech companies organized name, industry, numerical rank

With a little research you may find on this list, a number of factoid gems for your own reflection, ethical investing, and structural ins+t into industries and companies, as well as the American tech economy overall. The 500 list, however, is not the usual economically-indexed one.  Rather, it is a tech-usage ranking that  supplies data on revenue totals, h+est ranking IT executive of each company listed, title of the chief information officer, and industry.  In clicking the charted list to Industry mode, you get a profile of the several industries and industrial sectors represented.


This service is furnished by Information Week's Tech Business webs+t.  I get the email newsletter of this s+t, as well those for Govt Tech (a major market for the Tech Biz players, and the Grok on Google newsletter.

Information Week's parent UBM Techweb produces a huge series of such newsletters.  It styles itself as 

"Global Leader in Technology Media and Business Information"

 Here's the stable for all its newshorses:

Enabling People and Organizations to Harness the Transformative Power of Technology

 

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Music: Contemporary Chamber Music: Anat Fort Trio



Musicians: Anat Fort Trio - 18feb2010 - part 4
Video by:  1326JOSI
Hat Tip:  Steve Bishop's Music for a Sunday Morning series

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Toronto the Good: Film Festival 2010: Clint's back in town after 20 yrs




Eastwood tackles death in 'Hereafter'

By LIZ BRAUN, QMI AGENCY
Toronto Sun, Article last Updated: September 13, 2010 12:40pm



Here's my pick from the avalanche of publicity cranked out by the Toronto International Film Festival, read "international" as "American."



 Clint Eastwood, the man with a zero bull---t level, has returned to the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time in 20 years.
Not since he brought White Hunter, Black Heart to our town in 1990 has the legendary filmmaker been part of the festival, but he was in Toronto yesterday to introduce his latest movie, Hereafter, a drama about the human struggle to understand death and its aftermath. The movie, which stars Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard and Cecile De France, was a gala presentation Sunday night.
Hereafter concerns three disparate people — a woman who has a near-death experience, a child who cannot get over the death of a loved one and a man with a special connection to the afterlife. Their stories are slowly woven together.
Eastwood — stopping to spontaneously play the piano for a moment at a downtown hotel — brought Matt Damon with him to this interview.
Damon talked about the experience of working on Hereafter with Eastwood, with whom he also worked on Invictus. “He is an actor, so he knows a lot about it, and he gives the kind of direction he’d want as an actor,” said Damon. Searching for the right words, he continued, “He’s been acting longer than, longer than —”
“Don’t say God,” growled Eastwood, cheerfully.
“I was going to say, longer than most of the actors he’s working with. So he knows what’s helpful and what isn’t,” responded Damon, laughing. 
There's lots more to read, so click the Sun link.


And while you're at it, you may enjoy another gossipy note from Marie-Joelle Parent who went to the Eastwood after-party -- Matt Damon, star of Hereafter, was dutifully there too.  Kevin Spacey.  And ... and .. Zach Galifianakis ... who's he?, I wonder.


Playing on my TV at the moment is Clinto's masterpiece, Absolute Power.  Rich in irony.

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Monday, September 13, 2010

Soccer / football: Amazing goal: You have to see this one! [corrected]



I've seen some long kicks in my day, some very long kicks of the soccer ball by goalkeepers; but I've never seen a goalie kick that ball to the far other end of the field to the opposite goal posts ... and score!  Wow!

I have to dig up  info on the goalie's name, his time, the date of the game and its location and the opposing team's name.  It's in my Safari Cache app, somewhere. [Later: I searched and searched and coudn't find what I thawt I had, and lo and behold, I got the my vids mixed up and can't find what  I thawt I had, or did I just dream that one?] I want[ed] to get Technowlb to wr+t up the Safari Cache Explorer app, and I retrieve more info on this fabulous [imaginary?] game, and the team and world's star goalie.  That's the way the media game works, a kick like that on viraling video imagery and you go from an interesting player on an interesting team to a target of cameras and publicity and celebrity worldwide.  A person becomes the empty core of a vast whirlwind, as in the case of Cristiano Robino (more another day or so).


So, enjoy the soccer vid posted.

(In any case, I'm truly grateful too that YouTube (here's the vid's URL) exists and I have the equipment to view these soccer video gems occasionally!)

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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Sports: Football: First Lady, Michelle Obama, throws a pass to anonymous receiver


Our one and only First Lady throws a pass to the receiver, and some redoubtable photographer had a camera ready to catch the ball mid-air.

Yeow!, she knows how to throw a football, and she's still of an age to be able to get it aloft!  I've never known of a First Lady so able and active.

-- Sportikos

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Tech: PC app: Apimac's iDatabase holds promise of h+ performance



This is a 3rd-party application for Macs (recent versions of the operating system).  You can cross file stuff, establishing your own search and sort categories and using a good set of templates (because categories will be different for different kinds of data, as you determine them).  You can also make your own templates, apparently.  I'm checking this one out!

-- Technowlb

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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Sports: Urban gymnasts: Amazing young athletes take the city



-- Sportikos

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SportsUSA: Football: Boise State U dogs heels of #1 Albama, #2 Ohio State U

The meteoric rise of Boise State's Broncos to popular acclaim is a new phenom that so far hasn't  registered in a major change to the rankings on AP's Top 25 list.
"The Broncos remained third after a thrilling 33-30 victory against Virginia Tech on Monday night, receiving eight first-place votes and 1,399 points from the media panel, 13 points behind Ohio's Buckeyes.


"Ohio State received four first-place votes and 1,412 points.
"[University of] Alabama [Crimson Tide] had 47 first-place votes, down seven from the preseason poll, and 1,484 points in the rankings released Tuesday.
"[Texas Christian University -- Horned Frogs, can you believe that name? -- here's the Frogs schedule] : "TCU from the Mountain West Conference moved up two spots to No. 4, marking the first time since the Bowl Championship Series was implemented in 1998 that two teams from conferences without automatic BCS bids have been in the top five. Boise State is the defending Western Athletic Conference champion.
"[University of] Texas remained No. 5 and received one first-place vote."
The game to which I'm especially looking forward is the Frogs against Southern Methodist University -- Friday, Sept 24.


-- Sportikos

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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Fashion: Fall: Certified looks for fashionable women, and men too


Brooks Brothers advertizes this lovely model in a silk tunic, an engaging printed design for the new season but not a tunic that emphasizes warmth shoud the Autumn months ahead turn cold.  Since the price was handy, I included it.  As you can see, the handy price is pricey!

















For men, here's a look for Fall 2k10.  I found it marketted under the headline "5 Must-Have Menswear Items for School" in Daily Fashion & Style.  Sorry, no price tage available this time.




It was the text of my favourite philosopher
Herman Dooyeweerd, where he made
reflective comments on the seasonality of
fashion/s, that helped me distinguish the
theme and affirm it for my own journaletics
here in refWr+t.  -- Simeon Stylites

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Sports: Baseball: Philllies' Hamel "hurls 7 shutout frames against Brewers

Major League Baseball (USA):

Philadelphia's Phillies slawtered the Brewers, out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Cole Hamels carried a no-hitter into the fifth and earned his ninth win by yielding three hits in seven scoreless innings. The lone RBI [runs batted in] came from Carlos Ruiz, while Brewers starter Chris Capuano took the loss."


For the h+l+ts, click up the video "Hamel's gem." (not otherwise available, apparently).  Hamel is shown delivering a barrage of pitches to Brewers batters, striking them out, the last scenario being a double play that finished any Brewer initiative to recoup the game.   The win "moved the Phillies within one game of first place in the National League East ...."


Who knows, this may be the year for the Phillies to take the Eastern Conference of the League, and then the  National League championship, and on to the World Series.  


-- Sportikos


PS  I'm getting married next June; the engagement was yesterday.

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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Technics: Google: Gmail launches Priority Inbox which can solve 'email overload'




Gmail Priority Inbox Fixes Email Overload
by QuickOnlineTips
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Gmail Priority Inbox is Google’s answer to fix Email Overload. Is your Gmail inbox cluttered with useless emails while important emails are missed in the email flood? You need this…
Google has a new evolved Gmail filter to that help users separate bologna / bacn from your important emails. Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.
So what is bacn? A new term I learnt today which means email which has been subscribed to and is therefore not unsolicited, but is often not read by the recipient for a long period of time, if at all. Bacn has been described as “email you want but not right now”. And this is what Gmail Priority Inbox will separate, besides the spam.
Gmail Priority Inbox is rolling out over the week to all Gmail accounts and will feature -
  • Automatic sorting – Gmail uses a variety of signals to identify important email, including which messages you open and which you reply to.
  • Sections keep you organized – Incoming email gets separated into sections: important and unread, starred, and everything else. Don’t like these? Customize them.
  • Predictions improve over time – Over time, Priority Inbox gets better at predicting what’s important to you. You can help train it using the train buttons.
I am sure we will all love this new feature. Thanks Gmail…
  1. Gmail RSS Web Clips : Blog Headlines on Your Inbox
  2. FeedBurner Email : RSS Feeds in Your Inbox
  3. Gmail Gives 5 Seconds to Stop, Cancel, Undo Sent Email
  4. How to Add HTML Email Signatures in Gmail
  5. Disposable Email Addresses – Protect your Email

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Monday, August 09, 2010

Arts: Movies: Critical retrospective on Bergman's The Seventh Seal'

Critics' Picks: 'The Seventh Seal' - Video Library - The New York Times

Recommended!

Yes, it's dark.   And, yes, its view of Christian religion in a Humanist-Secularist societal environment dominated by Sweden's Lutheran Church under state-political forces (it was then the country's established church) is one of despair and disgust.  But it's a strong viewing experience if you can tolerate the English subtitles and a pervasively bleak vision.   The film is set in Sweden's middle ages.

-- Archibald

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

Toronto the Good: Plague of bedbugs hits town, hurts poor most

Toronto Star (Aug6,2k10) by reporter Noor Javed and photo by Carlos Osorio.

Across the city, thousands like Ross, are realizing that the scourge of bedbugs is not limited to social housing, crowded shelters, or low-income dwellings. Bedbugs are quickly becoming everyone’s problem. Pest-control companies in the GTA say they receive four to five calls a week from mortified residents in swanky neighbourhoods, owners of upscale condos and helpless tenants in rental apartments struggling to cope with infestations. And in recent months, hospitals such as William Osler Health Centre in Etobicoke, the Toronto Public Library, and retail stores have joined the list of those battling infestations — which suggests that, despite the best efforts of public health officials, pest-control companies and the afflicted, the city is on its way to a full-scale bedbug crisis.
Last week, in an act of desperation, city officials in New York City declared war on bedbugs, after reports of the pests dramatically increased. In 2009, the city received 33,772 bedbug-related inquires, up from 21,922 in 2008 — a jump of 54 percent. But it has been the growing evidence of the pests in every corner of society — in the changerooms of retail stores, fancy hotels, libraries and even as plot lines in NY-based sitcoms — that pushed city officials to announce a $500,000 initiative that includes the creation of a health department task force, improved tracking tools, protocols for the proper disposal of infested items, and requiring landlords to provide information on infested units to tenants. 
In Toronto, infestation numbers are also rising. In 2003, Toronto Public Health had only 46 reports. In 2008, when TPH set up a self-reporting bedbug hotline, it received 1,324 calls. This year, the city has received 1,076 calls so far and expects hundreds more.
It's a hell of a situation here in Toronto the Good this season, and for as long as the gd bedbugs live.

-- Owlie Scowlie

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Friday, August 06, 2010

Arts: Music: Country Music USA weekly chart

THIS WEEK’S CHART:

1. the JaneDear girls “Wildflower”
2. Gary Allan “Get Off On The Pain”
3. Katie Armiger “Leaving Home”
4. LoCash Cowboys “Here Comes Summer”
 5. Carrie Underwood “Undo It”
6. Randy Montana “Ain’t Much Left Of Lovin’ You”
7. Blake Shelton “All About Tonight”
8. Rodney Atkins “Farmer’s Daughter”
9. Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
10. Little Big Town “Little White Church”
11. Kellie Pickler “Makin’ Me Fall In Love Again”
12. Steve Azar “Sunshine (Everyone Needs A Little)”
13. Alan Jackson “Hard Hat And A Hammer”
14. Reba McEntire “I Keep On Lovin’ You”
15. Trace Adkins “This Ain’t No Love Song”
16. Toby Keith “Trailerhood”
17. Zac Brown Band “Free”
18. The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
19. Jerrod Niemann “Lover, Lover”
20. Billy Currington “Pretty Good At Drinkin’ Beer”

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