Some UK-based researchers have come up with the secret to success. According to them success is not due to possessing innate gifts. The assumption is that people learn very quickly when they’re young then as they grow older they stop developing. However there are a few that continuously improve and move on to greatness.

The results as to the reason “why” are found here:

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Great interview with Jim Donald, the President and CEO of Starbucks. A hands-on kind of guy, he actually takes a spin behind the counter of a Starbucks whenever he does a store visit. Very interesting also his method of scheduling his time. Wherein he doesn’t believe in managing time but rather charting it.

Article here

A great tool for SME’s wishing to establish a web presence from microsoft. For the free version, a free domain is offerred during this beta test phase as well as 30Gb free space and 10 Gb/Month bandwidth.

What should be noted though is that MS Office Live is not an online version of the very popular Office Suite, Microsoft Office.

I’m just wondering how the forces from the darkside of the internet will take advantage of this one *snicker*

One question I have to ask though is… who gets the domain name if incase you decide to go big time and get your own server?

From tech.memeorandum

Fact sheet available here

Larry Ellison has purchased Sleepy Cat Software. Which makes the Berkeley DB engine, the other transaction safe db engine in MySQL.

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