Dell Weblog: Lots has been written about Dell’s foray into the blogosphere. I am not privy to the insider information that many of the above authors are, but it seems as though this is an attempt by Dell to make things more personal. I see shades of Channel 9 with the various vlog entries promoting new items and flashes of GM’s blog. Even the “About” page link location and theme (content) looks similar to GMs. Maybe they used the same company? This smells more of cheap advertising than anything else. Maybe this is a start, but Dell could have done much better with the resources they must have at their disposal. Maybe Scoble is a rarity but I find it hard to believe that they could not find a CBO worth their salt to provide the sushi rice to hold it all together.

Find Me A Cure: I finally got my dad to blog about something that he cares deeply about and has a lot of good information on. I have been practicing yoga on and off all of my life and have been coached and coaxed by my dad to try alternative forms of medication, treatment and therapy for as long as I can remember. Some of these have worked wonders for me, others have failed to make much of a difference. But I trust his judgement, appreciate his knowledge and I really value his opinions on yoga, alternative medication and therapy. My father is a complete Internet newbie. You could almost call him a perpetual newbie since most concepts of the Internet are beyond what he wants to learn or cares to understand. I made him buy his first computer for our Calcutta home approximately six years ago and he has […]

Air Force Blog Study: The Air Force has funded a $450,000 study on blogs and blogging as a part of the war on terror. We are developing an automated tool to tell analysts what bloggers are most interested in at a point in time. Sounds like Memeorandum (insert other web 2.0 news/meme/tag site). Thanks Blogging Blog

If you run Linux and have been working with the filesystem(s) for any length of time, you have used and abused rm. However, when the number of files concerned is very large or there are unescaped characters in your filenames, rm can misbehave. The following code will take care of all your worries. The exec command always makes me stand back and wonder at the power of the Linux shell. find . -name ‘*.*’ -exec rm {} \; From: http://howtos.linux.com/guides/abs-guide/moreadv.shtml Also, Veen overhears an rm conversation [EDIT] Be very careful using find to remove files.