Dan Meyer writes: “Lord and Benoit estimated that Section 404 [Sarbox-Oxley a U.S. accounting law] compliance costs for smaller publicly-traded companies are slightly less than $80,000, about $15,000 less than expected.”
The new RSS feed for Cloudy Thinking is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ron_K_Jeffries.
My testing shows Feedburner works OK, but please let me know if you have problems. (more…)
A friend suggested I look at Open Workbench, a free and open source alternative to Microsoft Project for Windows. It looks like a decent solution. See also OpenProj.
Forrest Voight provides real-time ranking of hard drives based on the most bits per dollar, using pricing data from NewEgg. Forrest is 14.6 years old, not that it matters. [via Zawodny]
Dan Bricklin shares his experience using a One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) notebook to take notes during a meeting. Takeaways: the OLPC keyboard is almost silent, screen is awesome, and battery life is exceptionally good.
Ana Marie Cox posted this video of Mitt Romney. In this clip he is on his game. It’s too soon to count out Romney.Should he win the Republican nomination, Romney will be Obama and Hillary’s worst nightmare.
Time Magazine’s Ana Marie Cox is “twittering” the Republican campaign. She’s also is team blogging at Times’ excellent Swampland site. [via Kottke]
If you are fascinated by cats you’ll enjoy this article about how to communicate with your cat.
Tim Walker writes about the need for interruption-free time, and suggests that the plethora of meetings in a normal business day is not productive.
Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States, reads “The Lanyard” in this video. Enjoy.
To get your weekend started early, look at Left of Zen’s list of funny quotes. It’s uneven, but there are some real jewels. [via ebr303]