Bottom-up approach to taxonomy development

"In my previous post, I brought up a topic on the implementation challenges of taxonomy and suggested a few points on overcoming pitfalls for multi-faceted taxonomy implementation. This time round, my reflection is based on ground 0, where there is no corporate taxonomy design to start with.

This idea requires incremental and continuous investment and its not a short project period affair. Like the Chinese saying goes, "Cast a long line to catch a bigger fish"."

http://si177on.blogspot.com/2008/01/bottom-up-approach-to-taxonomy.html

• each folder should not contain more than 15 sub-folders or documents (human beings are generally comfortable with 8 - 15 items in a cluster)

• the number of folder levels should not exceed 7 (this prevents document from gaining too much depth making it hard for others to find or discover)

A brief history of Tibet

"A brief account of Tibet, its origin, how it grew into a great military power and carved for itself a huge empire in Central Asia, then how it renounced the use of arms to practise the teachings of the Buddha and the tragic consequences that it suffers today as a result of the brutal onslaught of the Communist Chinese forces is given in the following passages."

http://www.friends-of-tibet.org.nz/tibet.html

Cardiff Geeks

"Cardiff Geeks is a Community of Geeks based in and around Cardiff, Wales, UK. We've long been suffering without interaction between us - the time has come to break down those barriers and unite! If you are passionate individual and would like to be involved in geeky antics in Wales maybe you'd like"

http://www.cardiffgeeks.net/

Shoplifting Seagull

"Shoplifting..." from pizdaus.com

test everything — 100+ tools in one

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http://tester.jonasjohn.de/

100 things we didn't know last year

"The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn't know last week. To kick off 2008, here are some of the best of last year."

1. Coach travel is the safest form of road transport in the country.

2. Saddam Hussein's codename while in US custody in 2004/5 was "Victor".

3. Adding milk to tea negates the health-giving effects of a hot brew.

...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/01/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_3.shtml

The Best Office Alternatives

"Almost everyone does two things with Microsoft Office: complain about it and use it. But the fact that most likely you and everyone you know is using it doesn't necessarily mean it's the suite you should be using. The way Office works—and the high price that Microsoft charges for it—may not really suit your needs or your budget. Office outclasses all its rivals in overall power, but the challengers do some things better. Once you know what those things are—and aren't—you may decide it's time to switch."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2222269,00.asp

Print version: http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=220175,00.asp

Perl - Welcome to my ~/bin

"Over the years, I have built up a large collection of handy utilities in Perl. I'll take you on a tour of these utilities and show you what they do and how they work."

http://perl.plover.com/yak/mybin/

alt:cardiff

"alt:cardiff wanders off the beaten path and scratches beneath the surface in a quest for information about different ways to play, listen, eat, engage."

http://alt.cardiff.ac.uk/

5 Packs to Transform Windows to other OS

"It's a new year, why not give your years old XP operating system a new look? If you're bored of having to look at the same kind of icons and eyecandy everytime, you can download and install these free transformation packs, and transform XP to look like any other OS."

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-packs-to-transform-windows-to-other-os/

New Year's twin sisters turn 100

"Twin sisters who have lived through five royal reigns are celebrating their 100th birthdays in Cornwall."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7166713.stm

"There are lots of things to enjoy, the countryside and beauty everywhere. Live from day to day."

PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives

"Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind."

http://portableapps.com/

The Portable Freeware Collection

"Portable apps are nice because I can easily pass them to a colleague or friend ("Hey, try out this latest version of Firefox with my favorite addons!"), or help out friends when they run into problems with their PCs (eg. file recovery, network diagnosis). I can upgrade to a newer machine and have my favorite apps up and running in no time, instead of having to spend the entire day swapping CDs and reinstalling/reconfiguring apps that I need. This really made my computing life better."

http://www.portablefreeware.com/

The Shamatha Project - B. Alan Wallace

"Recent studies of the effects of meditation practices on stress management and emotional stability and of meditation as a therapeutic agent have produced exciting results. But the studies conducted to date have been short-term and have generally used non-intensive interventions. We have engaged a team of talented neuroscientists and psychologists in a longer-term study, with state-of-the-art methods, to examine the effects of intensive meditation training on attention, cognitive performance, emotion regulation, and health"

http://www.sbinstitute.com/ShamathaTalk.html

Free Online Backup – IDrive – Encrypted, Secure and Automated

"IDrive is an automated and encrypted online backup solution for your data, without any backup / restore restrictions or bandwidth / file type limitations."

http://www.idrive.com/

Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Online Storage

" Online storage for your files. Box offers web-based access, sharing and protection of your documents, photos, and file"

http://www.box.net/

Diino -- Store, share, backup, access and manage your files

"With Diino you can easily store, share, manage, access, send and backup your documents, music, e-mails, photos and files with the highest security available online. Your data is stored on our secure servers."

http://www.diino.co.uk/

VirtualBox

"innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

http://www.virtualbox.org/