Bookmarks for December 11th from 11:25 to 17:12

12 December, 2008 (05:14) | 9. Delicious | By: nileshbabu

These are my links for December 11th from 11:25 to 17:12:

Business Cases Are a Waste of Time (But Do Them Anyway) – Susan Cramm – Everyone knows how to play the game: make the numbers look good, then claim victory at the end. Anything can be justified using 1% increase in sales or profit and no one can disprove assertions about impact to sales or profit given the number of variables in play. McAfee observes that, “Across the hundreds of quantitative IT business cases I’ve seen, I’d estimate that the average ROI figure was about 100%”, and then concludes, with a heavy dose of sarcasm that, “If this ROI figure is at all accurate, why are companies spending money on anything else except IT?”
How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations – Now you can easily save yourself from getting into such embarrassing situations by planning ahead. Will you be presenting to a live audience in a Wi-fi enabled conference room with good Internet speed or are there any chances that you may have to deliver the presentation video in an offline environment (like a classroom)?
Programmer Jokes — what’s your best one? – Stack Overflow – When I teach introductory computer science courses, I like to lighten the mood with some humor. Having a sense of fun about the material makes it less frustrating and more memorable, and it’s even motivating if the joke requires some technical understanding to ‘get it’!
Warren Buffett’s 10 Ways To Get Rich – With an estimated fortune of $62 billion, Warren Buffett is the richest man in the entire world. In 1962, when he began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway, a share cost $7.50. Today, Warren Buffett, 78, is Berkshire’s chairman and CEO, and one share of the company’s class A stock worth close to $119,000. He credits his astonishing success to several key strategies, which he has shared with writer Alice Schroeder. She spend hundreds of hours interviewing the Sage of Omaha for the new authorized biography The Snowball. Here are some of Warren Buffett’s money-making secrets — and how they could work for you.
Interviewing Tips at Infosec Ramblings – One of the best resources I know of that deals with interviewing skills is “Knock’em Dead” by Martin Yate.That being said, here are a few tips that you might find helpful:
A Better Windows World tools library | NetworkWorld.com Community – Well once again we have a Library update and we have thus far brought you news, reviews and tips for 78 tools. I am looking to speak to my editors at Network World to see if we can do something special for my 100th tool post. We will see what I can arrange, for now thanks for all the support and I hope these tools can help make your world… A Better Windows World!
20 great Windows open source projects you should get to know | NetworkWorld.com Community – The list that follows is organized by my own personal taste. The tools I think are really the unsung gems are first, with the ones that seem to be far more widely known are last. So, before you flame me with comments about having to click through this multi-page post to see all the tools, I’m going to tell you the names of all the tools up front, and tell you which page to find them on. And, for an alphabetized list of all tools in this post, see last page (p. 10).
9 wickedly helpful Web sites for Windows administrators – Network World – Blogger Ron Barrett has compiled a list of Windows Web sites guaranteed to save you hours of effort. Also check out Barrett’s longer write-up of each site in his A Better Windows World blog. Have you got a favorite Windows Web site? Post a comment and let us know.
8 tools that make Microsoft shops run smoother – Network World – IT has one unending need – good management tools. If you are a Microsoft shop, you face specific challenges to ensure all runs smoothly. That’s why blogger Ron Barrett has assembled this eclectic list. These tools solve a variety of issues including group policy management, training, password management, collaboration, remote connectivity and managing the new Windows Server 2008 core. What they all have in common is that they will make a Microsoft shop run better and the tools themselves require no fuss or muss to manage
Slashdot | Enterprise 2.0 – “The title of this book combines two coded terms — ‘Web 2.0′ and ‘The Enterprise’ — for which read ‘social networking software’ and ‘Big Business.’ And the purpose is to show how the techniques and concepts behind Web 2.0 applications (blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS, and social bookmarking) can be used to encourage collaboration efforts in what was previously thought of as secretive, competitive businesses.”
Quit Smoking: Find in-depth information to help you stop smoking – Smoking causes cancer, breathing problems, heart attacks, and stroke. Secondhand smoke causes asthma and breathing problems. Get help quitting smoking from support groups, nicotine replacement therapy, and other medications.
GLI Press: Biz Watch: 5 Job Interview Questions That Mean You’re Not Getting Hired…And One That Means You Are – This article focuses on a particular kind of interview question, what I call the “Not Getting Hired” question. I call it that for two reasons: One, because questions that fall into this category have become such a routine part of the interviewing process that the person asking it rarely pays attention to the answer (and for good reason, as I’ll explain later). Two, because no matter how an interviewee answers the question, the information doesn’t address the key issue in any employment search.