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Interesting insights and perspective from a software development veteran. - Tom Beek

The Digital Dutch Unit Converter - Online conversion of area, density, energy, force, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, volume and bytes. - Tom Beek

The second largest translation marketplace in the world and on the Internet. - Tom Beek

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Wow! - Tom Beek

Chrome is fast, and its made by Google so there is that feel-good aspect. But other than that it just plain sucks. - Gears is not fully implemented, just try Google Docs offline - There are no toolbars or useful plugins - A crashed process in one tab is not supposed to crash the browser, but it will - Google continues to create plug-ins and toolbars for FireFox and IE but not for Chrome. Bad, bad, bad! They created a kickass browser and then stranded its users with no add-ons. I hate to say it, but it feels a tad uncaring and out of control. What are they thinking? My only consolation is my gut-feeling expectation that all the goodies are in the pipline and will be available soon. I hope I am not wrong. - Tom Beek

Assessment and screening of job candidates from Spherion - Tom Beek

Real Time with Bill Maher. 10/10/08. Palin is Dumber Than Bush. - Tom Beek

Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your personal or team blog. - Tom Beek

you turn me on. - Tom Beek

It's getting cooler and cooler. - Tom Beek

I like Google Chrome for its speed and stability. But it would be great to also have a little more functionality. - Tom Beek

LMAO! - Tom Beek

Kewl animation! - Tom Beek

"Great food, friendly servers, and great variety - from curries to mock fish or meat dishes. Kid friendly." - Tom Beek

"The kirtanas are always among the most participatory and energetic of the Krishna temples I've been to. The food was amazing - served hot and with smiles. Delicious vegetable dishes, fried flat…" - Tom Beek

Profiles in Journalism (updated below - updated again) The Pulitzer Prize Committee today recognized the work of one of America's few truly excellent political journalists: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe won for national reporting for his revelations - Tom Beek

Impressive and encouraging for open source advocates that VeriSign is committed to open standards. - Tom Beek

minimalism at its chic best - Tom Beek

Fun and educational - Tom Beek

Try the Tofu Clay Pot - Tom Beek

"I still remember the day Microsoft followed Apple's lead on the GUI (Graphical User Interface). My 50MB hard-drive became junk overnight because I didn't know then about Free Software." - Tom Beek

"Do you suppose some people will get them just for fun - so their friends can track them on the Internet, or something. Weirder things have occurred." - Tom Beek

"Ah the California legislature. Way ahead of the pack - except for those other two state legislatures that already saw the future and shuddered. But it seems to me that there may be legitimate uses for these R(adio)F(requency)ID(entification) chips, like for the mentally ill. Psychopaths cannot feel or relate to rules or guilt, so there are no social barriers to their actions. Stick an RFID chip in them and everyone is safer. Seems less controversial than chemical (or real) castration (of sex offenders). An RFID chip would be a lot less punitive and psychologically cruel than these other measures, and would also be more effective, provided that the offender could not remove the chip him/herself. The danger in this line of argument, some will say, is that once you allow this kind of use for the RFID chip, their use will spread and become more common. But, remember, it's not the voluntary insertions that will matter - as one digger pointed out already, this will happen simply for..." - Tom Beek

""The Government made me do it!" "It wasn't my chip!"" - Tom Beek

"Awesome reply! I was starting to get annoyed by the name calling, and might have made an angry "goddamit be polite and don't call names" email, which would have been, a, not effective at all. Humor is king." - Tom Beek

There are ways to perform boolean searches on Google, and other types of advanced searches. - Tom Beek

Start>Run>"eudcedit" - Tom Beek