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(I) Unplayed Audio Podcast smartlist that plays 100 audio unheard unskipped podcasts starting from the earliest added. Podcast is true Play Count is 0 Skip Count is 0 Kind does not contain MPEG-4 Limit to 100 items selected by least recently added To create a Video podcast just change the Kind parameter on the smartlist to "contains" You can sort the list so it will play by artist, album (most Podcasts have album names consistent), genre etc Setting Video Kind to Movie admits most video podcasts however others get filtered out - so avoid this parameter.

So I started playing with Mule starting Feb 2007. Mule is an integration platform that allows for pluggable connectors to other types of systems. There are so many descriptions of ESBs and architecture styles, and almost everyone claims to be an expert in the space. IMO Mule is basically a container-type framework that rests on various open source products... if you go to the 1.4.1 distribution's opt folder the listing is as such: 05/22/2007 08:23a 444,463 acegi-security-1.0.1.jar 05/22/2007 08:28a 443,432 antlr-2.7.6.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 1,599,570 axis-1.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 31,191 axis-jaxrpc-1.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 18,979 axis-saaj-1.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 126,771 axis-wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar 05/22/2007 08:21a 327,810 backport-util-concurrent-3.0.jar 05/22/2007 08:28a 490,136 c3p0-0.9.0.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:23a 193,391 carol-2.0.5.jar 05/22/2007 08:28a ...

Just when I thought I would have to write a bookmark sync tool for my machines, I stumbled upon Foxmarks. It was like someone read my mind of the design I had thought and just coded it. Brilliant, thanks Foxmarks you have saved me weeks of coding & deployment! I am a happy user of it, it sync my bookmarks across machines effortlessly. Recommendation: Dump google synch, del.icio.us, tag for Foxmarks. http://www.foxmarks.com/

A good video that explains Web 2.0 (without the particular technology implementation details)

Corporate politics, what the heck is that ? Consider this statement: "Achieving a goal is often not as important as the way its achieved". Balderdash? Confused? Disagree? Read on. If you don't know what corporate politics is yet, then you are either new to the job market, naive, or an agnostic. If you are new to the job market - you will learn over time, unless you are naive and continue to be one. If you are agnostic then you must think that you can find a small cubicle in your company and get into "heads-down" work, try not to bother anyone, not let anything or anyone bother you. My friend, you have a lesson to learn. I used to be an agnostic. When it comes to politics, I say you should not be agnostic. If you are one, the symptoms are telling. Things happen to you at work, i.e. you are not in control of those things or your own career. You never decide the work you want to do, things don't fall in place as you would expect. You aspire to get to the next...

Goggle labs have offered a Firefox plug-in that promises to automatically synchronize the state of the browser across machines. To download it Click here I installed the plugin on 2 Firefox browsers (1) Firefox 1.5.x on a Windows 2000 SP4 2.5GHz 1.5GB RAM (2) Firefox 1.5x on a Windows Home SPx 1.60GHz 760MB RAM (3) Firefox 1.5x on a Windows 2000 SP4 1.8GHZ 1GB RAM The first machine was run behind a firefall and proxy server, the other was connected to the internet with no proxy. Depending on the network I connected the first machine in I was disappointed by a major flaw in the plug-in. If the browser cannot connect the Internet, then it will not work. Uninstalling the browser is easy, but once you re-install it the Google browser synch is not uninstalled. YOu can delete it from the extensions either because to do that you will have to start the browser, but the browser does not start.

So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard it with your Life According to Robert Greene’s 48 Laws of Power , reputation is the cornerstone of power. Reputation alone can intimidate and win. Vulnerability will invite attacks from all sides. Reputations should be unassailable; one should be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. According to Greene, one should destroy enemies by opening holes in their own reputations and after the holes are opened, stand aside and let public opinion take over. Notably a person in recent political history was a victim of such reputation damage. He was not able to recover from it and finally offered his resignation; of course a different reason was cited for this. Colin Powel is a highly decorated military personnel. Before Operation Desert Storm was executed, he publicly opposed several of George H.W. Bush's administration officials who advocated the deployment of troops to the Middle East to force Iraqi president Sadd...