Monthly Archives: April 2008

Book Review: Microtrends

This book looked interesting given its topic and the praise placed upon it.  It is positioned as a book that highlights small occurrences in society, and their potential impact.  The beginning highlights areas where opportunity exists to improve and in … Continue reading

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Book Review: Free to Choose

It was recommended that I check out some works by Milton Friedman given my passion for economics, chaos theory, and developing patterns.  What is fun about this book is that it was written in the late 1970s (or at least … Continue reading

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Book Review: Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

Finished this book while flying back from RSA hoping to find some quantifiable methods that could be applied to business risk management and security threats.  An area that is wholly lacking in specifics.  The book presented good business overviews and … Continue reading

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Batch Resize Images in Photoshop

I recently had to resize 48 images of various types and formats into 20×40 images.  I am not an expert in Photoshop and started manually making changes.  I noticed the Batch action available in the file menu (when saving the … Continue reading

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Book Review: Jim Cramer’s Real Money

After watching, avoiding, becoming addicted, disgusted, and generally amused by Jim Cramer’s television personality I thought a richer understanding of the man and his methods was worthwhile. (I believe it is better to understand someone fully and truely have an … Continue reading

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Book Review: On the Origin of Wealth

I picked up this book with the hope of a deep analysis in what constitutes wealth and the many variations that may exist.  The author responds to this question and many others throughout the entire book.  The thesis that he … Continue reading

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