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1 MB of Internet Data Transfer = 1 lump of coal

J. Termine — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:50:02 +0000

One lump of coal is the energy required to move a single megabyte of data across the Internet, according to Jay Walker — the man behind Priceline.com and curator of the Library of Human Imagination which he created in his mansion. Makes you think of the energy one uses to transfer files over BitTorrent each day.

Elizabeth Gilbert @ TED: Nurturing Creativity

J. Termine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:25:19 +0000

Elizabeth Gilbert, a famous author, spoke at TED about nurturing creativity. In it she describes how the ancient Greeks and Romans considered creative energy exerted by an artist or scholar as coming from a divine source — in Greece this was a “daemon” and in Rome it was a “genius”. By the time the Renaissance came, an individual person was thought to originate creativity from within themselves (“rational humanism“). After the Renaissance, a creative person might BE a genius rather than HAVE a genius. Elizabeth Gilbert wishes we could go back the ancient times, because it places a great burden on creative people to think that they are the beginning and end of their own creative success. This was a fascinating lecture that resonated with me when I saw it.

Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM): An Example

J. Termine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:19:50 +0000

This is my first ever ScreenCast, and I chose to do it on the fascinating topic of Continuous Controls Monitoring. This demo will walk through what a CCM implementation might look like using Microsoft Infopath and SharePoint.

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I think my voice is a little dry and I find myself stuttering in a few places, but I think its a valiant and informative first attempt. Let me know what you think.