Bill Gates has announced he’s giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs.  Here’s the announcement from Gates Foundation

There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them.  A have an internal screed about them and how they are MONEY HOARDERS (old school caps for emphasis).  I don’t respect that behaviour when the obvious suffering blah blah blah – no one wants to hear the screed here.

Bill Gates is really the only one that has a gotten pass from me.  He has actively worked through his Gates Foundation to try to make the  world a better place.  I admire that.

AI Action plan, and stuff

AI Action plan Here ya go folks - this is the current administration's AI Action Plan:  https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing "woke AI" in the federal government...

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CMS sites revisited

Recent work research includes CMS review. I haven't looked into what is out there in a long time. The quick search hits showed lots of familiar faces and a couple new ones. I found this post informative:...

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Congratulations Impact Makers

Impact Makers was awarded "Best for the World" by B Lab. Here's a Richmond Time's Dispatch mentioning of the award. I met Michael Pirron shortly after moving to Richmond in 2004, and have watched him methodically and conscientiously build Impact Makers into a...

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DropBox Security

Oh, the line between security and convenience is harsh. While reading TechRepublic I found this interesting article on DropBox security. I love the convenience of cloud technologies, and use DropBox like lots of people, including the article author (Michael Kassner)....

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GOOG perspective on links

Analytics is an area that I will be focusing quite a bit in the coming months. I read this article about linking and Penguin 2.0 changes on a website called "Search Engine Watch."  There are many pieces to the content puzzle that websites have to face, and...

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Google Apps v. Office 365

The TechRepublic newsletter is worth a scan every day.  I found this gem recently and it's worth a read if you use, or might use in the future, either Google Apps or Microsoft Office. Here it is: Google Apps v. Office 365: Head-to-head comparison of features...

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UltraEdit

I first used UltraEdit sometime in the late 90s.  I loved it back then. When I went to work for TQuist in 2003 I purchased another copy. I just now retired my last XP system, and so I've decided to get the latest copy.  I hope it's aged well. They've changed...

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