I saw this billboard while walking around Berkeley last night. I hate to suggest that vandalism is ever a good thing, but I respect the effort that went into it, and, to some extent, I agree with the sentiment.
Click on the image to see a larger version. I took this with my iPhone at a little after 10pm, so, the quality is pretty poor, but the broad themes come across okay.
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Nice tidbit - they use salesforce, and, to quote them
...later today when new people sign up they'll automatically get routed to our SalesForce.com customer relations management system. We love this tool - rock solid, web accessible, open API so we can integrate our news site to it, and we've filled it up with farmers, cooperative employees, bankers, college instructors, state and federal politicians, and we're using it to make our interaction with them coherent and focused as we march towards our goal(s).
I love working for a company that people love to use, and, I love, in my own small way, helping them make a difference.
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I'll get there. Hopefully soon.
]]>date:date-time. It's kind of challenging to figure out exactly how to make it work, though, at least it was for me. In hopes that I'll save someone else some work, here's how to add a time-stamp using Saxon 6.5.5.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl :stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"
xmlns:func="http://exslt.org/functions"
extension-element-prefixes="saxon exsl date func">
<xsl:template match="/">
Date-time: <xsl :value-of select="date:date-time()"/>
Date-year: <xsl :value-of select="date:year()"/>
Date-month-in-year: <xsl :value-of select="date:month-in-year()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl>
I hope that helps someone.
]]>While I don't agree with everything she said, or the way she said it (for example, while I am no Ronald Reagan fan, does it do any good to describe his as being a capable chicken farmer, but not capable of being president?), if you listen to her lecture and don't feel like our world is a scary place, and we're letting people like the current administration make things worse by our inaction, then you are completely close minded.
I found a YouTube clip of the lecture. I haven't watched it, but since I don't know how to link to an iTunes clip, I'll use that link instead.
Heck, I'll even try to embed it - it's split into 4 parts.
]]>Gasp! Yes, I work for salesforce.com and I'm asking "Who cares about online apps?". Let me explain to you what I mean, though.
One of the great things about Salesforce is that you work in what we call an organization, sharing data with everyone else in your group or company. You, your bosses, and subordinates, depending on your structure and you place in that structure, can share, report, and forecast on that information. That's really compelling.
What similar case would compel me to use a single-user app, like Photoshop, on the web?
The only one I can think of is if I'm using a computer other than the one I normally work on, either a home computer or a computer in a lab or cafe or the like. Interesting, but how often is that really an issue for me? For the standard user?
I'm not trying to say I'm against companies doing this kind of stuff, but I'm not sure I see a lot of benefit. If you see it, please share.
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I've had a Sony MP3 player for sometime that I've really enjoyed, but recently, I got gifted an iPod Shuffle, so I'm going to try it out to see how it compares to the Sony.
My needs are a little different from a typical MP3 player user. I mostly use it to listen to audio books while I ride the train back and forth to work. So, shuffle mode is out. Luckily you can use the Shuffle in non-shuffle mode.
Maybe more later.
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