From my travels on the web last week.

Are you doing a lot of research on the web? Do you want a very handy tool to help you annotate your research? Scrapbook is a Firefox extension that allows you to save Web pages to your local machine and manage the collection.

The current stock market does not bother this gunslinger.

And, if his perspective doesn’t help calm your concerns about the market, this chart might.

Fast Company’s most innovative business people of 2007. Some interesting names. And some surprising names. The slideshow can be found here.

A friend of mine finds himself on Wikipedia. It happens.

How a geek gets ready for the end of the world.

Want to start getting things done? Start here.

Talk about some aggressive goals for a CIO. Randy Mott, currently with HP, is planning to consolidate 85 HP data centers worldwide down to six in the United States; 6,000 legacy applications down to 1,500; 1,240 IT projects down to 700; and 19,000 internal IT and contract workers down to 8,000. He is also looking to flip the ratio of IT workers supporting old applications versus those working on new apps from 70%-30% to 20%-80%, and increase the percent of IT projects being delivered on time from 81% to 98%. And all this in just three years. Note to self: check back in three years.

From my travels on the web last week.

The corporate cage. An interesting post on the joys of spending your days in a cubicle maze.

Looks like some folks I know are going to try a social lending business in Canada. Social lending matches borrowers with lenders. Usually small amounts of money. Interesting to see whether Canadians will embrace this type of business.

Dave Ramsey, author and host of a popular radio program in the United States, has an interesting program for churches. He offers Financial Peace University for churches to help families restore order to their personal finances. According to Ramsey, 7 out of 10 families live paycheque to paycheque and they spend more than they make courtesy of their credit cards. I did not notice a Canadian version.

Some people have obsessive compulsive disorders. Others measure non-modal peaks and nulls. If you like to read about these acoustic monsters, the text version is here. If you hate reading and prefer to watch then this page has a number of videos. Scroll down for the video on non-modal peaks and nulls. Balloons were used to mark the nulls. And, from what I understand, no balloons were harmed in the making of the video.

Okay. I have been watching the sixth season of 24. Pretty much every night. One or two episodes. And I have a question. Is it me, or does the scar on Jack Bauer’s hand keep changing shape and location? Google could not help me.

With Warner jumping over to Blu-ray, five of seven major studios are now exclusive to that format. Right now it looks like Blu-ray will win the format war. A war that should never have started in the first place.

With all of the discussion on the environment and pollution in our media, I have yet to see this list highlighted. And there is also the dirty thirty. I wonder where Canada sits in relation to these lists?

A couple of days back, I posted a video here. And a few of you told me that your browser had some trouble with the clip. I put it up on YouTube so that trouble should be gone.

And here is another clip to make up for the trouble. Well. Someone has to be good at this.

Welcome to 2008. And many thanks to those of you who drop by this blog.

I was going back through my photos and I found a few band shots. Thought you might like to see them.