Monday, December 26, 2011

Firefox: simplify moving between computers, tabbed browsing, and bookmarking

I use Mozilla Firefox for most of my web browsing needs on Windows or Linux. I prefer Firefox because it works on most platforms, it is fast and it rarely crashes. It also has an important advantage over other browsers: an amazing number of free extensions that allow one to automate, speed up and simplify many common tasks. Here are some of my favorite Firefox extensions and features.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Stuart Diamond: Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World

Leading@Google: Stuart Diamond - YouTube (video, 1 hr)
Stuart Diamond is a Professor at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, a master negotiator and the author of Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World. In this talk at Google, Stuart Diamond describes some of the techniques he uses for negotiations:

Please continue helping Ukraine and Israel: contact your elected officials

Those of us who live outside of Ukraine can help Ukraine by writing, calling or emailing our elected officials, urging them to continue help...