Here’s the official certificate that I’m now a Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming – certified and trained by John Grinder, the Co-Creator of NLP, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll. Here is some of the content we explored.
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A good day…
Today I decided to start posting about positive things that happen. I started the day finding out on Fefe’s blog that apparently someone figured out a way to treat about all virus infections you may possibly think of. Instead of targetting the virus – which constantly change – he...
Continue reading...Book – without “I”
This is an excellent new development that you definitely should give a try.
Continue reading...Peak Helium
In an article from the New Scientist, Nobel Price Winner Robert Richardson discusses the reasons for a shortage of Helium which may run out within 25 years from now for purely politial reasons. In summary, Helium is used in technical applications like MRI scanners where it cools superconducting magnets....
Continue reading...Globalization works…
According to the German newsletter “Der Spiegel“, quoting the “Financial Times“, the salaries in the U.S. have declined to such a degree that Indian Call Center operators displace jobs from India to the U.S. where wages have gone down so dramatically that they can actually compete with those in...
Continue reading...Intel acquires McAfee
By now, everyone has heard about this story. It could have come in as a surprise, which in fact it isn’t. The more technically oriented know that any “Windows” system they’ve had the complete lack of a pleasure not to be able to avoid using (or having had to...
Continue reading...U.S. Military afraid of their own personnel knowing the truth
According to The Huffington Post, the U.S. Military has banned their own personnel from accessing WikiLeaks even from their private computers. Money quote: USMC Personnel (Marines/Civilians/Contractors) are hereby cautioned and directed to NOT access the WIKILEAKS website from a personally owned, publically owned or US Government computer system. By...
Continue reading...Craig Venter: ‘We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome’
The german magazine “Der Spiegel” has an interesting Interview with Craig Venter. Money quote: SPIEGEL: So the Human Genome Project has had very little medical benefits so far? Venter: Close to zero to put it precisely.
Continue reading...A Case for an SSD
I’ve just had another occasion to compare directly two pretty similar machines: A recent off-the-shelf MacBook Pro (I5, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA) with my normal working MacBook Pro (I7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD). Falling back to the slower machine, and not using all the RAM...
Continue reading...New OCR Wrapper published on Sourceforge
I’ve shared a small project I’ve recently written on sourceforge: pdfocrwrapper.sourceforge.net This tool serves as a wrapper around the excellent ABBYY OCR engine which also exists as a Linux variant. The wrapper recursively iterates a directory structure and submits all PDF that it finds (and that it has not...
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