Book Review: The Unemployed Millionaire Escape the Rat Race, Fire Your Boss, and Live Life on YOUR Terms I purchased this book from Amazon.com last week, and it sat on my coffee table until today. I can't remember the last time I've picked up a book and read it all within a day, but that is what I did with The Unemployed Millionaire by Matt Morris (I started it at a coffee shop this morning...
A powerful command-line tool for all your multimedia conversion needs Recently, I needed to create a .FLV file in Ubuntu from a .MOV for the Jungle Jim's video. During this process, I discovered FFmpeg—an incredibly versatile command-line tool that makes converting between media formats remarkably simple. FFmpeg is a powerful, open-source multimedia framework that can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play nearly any type of media. It's the Swiss Army knife of...
Insights from The New Yorker Profile John Mackey, the co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market The New Yorker has a long article on Mackey which was a very good read. Since it is so long, I've summarized what I found interesting from it below. I'm terrible at summarizing and in college never got into highlighting my textbooks. When reading I either found it all really interesting or all really dull, so it was...
I liked one of Google's recent blog posts about "The Meaning of Open". Summary of the Article At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow...
Telepresence and the Future of Communication I went to Cisco's headquarters yesterday in San Jose for a CMMA event to talk about what they are doing with their communications. We met with Margaret Smith Cisco's Collaboration Specialist and Abby Smith Cisco's Director of Employee Communications. Below are my notes from the visit. News@Cisco is their media portal Single site for Cisco Community and Social Media Newsroom.cisco.com 350+ RSS Feeds Where the public can go to...
Had a fun time at the President's Dinner tonight at 7,910 feet (2.41 km). We took a gondola right up to the top of the mountain, where they have a lodge for the dinner. Here is a picture of some of us before dinner. I'm coming home to California tomorrow!