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30 January 2004   

 

Nutty RSS/Tivo hack

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"if you've already hacked up your Tivo to the point where you can telnet to it, it's not a whole lot of extra work to display RSS feed data right there on the screen."

I don't suppose it's better than reading it in a proper aggregator... But I like the convergence. I wonder if TiVo works in the UK?


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Another busy old day. Going back to do another iteration of the Manila themes in CSS. Having troubles with my mouse overs. But after a good night's sleep, and some re-reading of printouts of some basic CSS from that I did way back in 1998, I'm looking forward to solving a few positioning riddles.
I see Tantek's doing some fun stuff with CSS too:

[The Scobleizer -- Geek Aggregator]: He's doing a different design every day, based on Technorati's top 100 blogs. All in CSS. All without changing any of the content of his blog.

Cool. And finally a reason to visit a blog in a browser rather than in an RSS news aggregator (News aggregators don't usually display design of blogs).


Doesn't look as though he's picked a good example today. Odd.


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Current Weather. 2C Mostly Cloudy [Cosford Royal Air Force Base, United Kingdom Weather]

I get the above updates every hour. Wouldn't it be cool, if I plugged it intot the Government's Intranet. So that as the weather changed, so did the theme. From suuny to partially cloudy. Rain to light rain...

Feature creep! I shut up, quickly!

 Source: Cosford Royal Air Force Base, United Kingdom Weather; 29/01/2004; 21:45:38.
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John Robb: What is the scope of the offshoring problem?

Here an article in the McKinsey Quarterly (via Forbes): By McKinsey estimates, in 2002 it was worth $32 billion to $35 billion--just 1% of the $3 trillion worth of business functions that could be performed remotely. Because of the significant benefits already being realized through offshoring, the market is projected to grow by 30% to 40% percent annually over the next five years. This prospect may cause consternation over job losses in the United States but it will make offshoring an industry with well over $100 billion in annual revenue by 2008.

What is $100 b of offshored services worth in terms of jobs? First, an offshored service costs ~50% of the service produced in the US (on average). Since this is basically a pure salary play (infrastructure is minimal), these estimates mean that 2 m ($100k) information workers will be offshored by 2008. Also, given these jobs usually produce upwards of ~4 additional jobs per position (community impact), this is a net loss of 10 m jobs by 2008.

I guess, offshoring is a bigger opportunity than I thought. Problems are, after all , opportunities.

 Source: John Robb's Weblog; 29/01/2004; 22:45:08.
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