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A good illustrative explanation of why some file systems do not or rarely need defragmentation of data. http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting

Inc.Magazine published an article by Ari Weinzweig, co-founder and CEO of Zingerman's community of businesses in Ann Arbor Michigan on the power of visioning. Ari in his article claims that he always creates vision for his company and every small or big project it starts and that vision guides the company to success in future. I liked his philosophy, so I wanted to translate his techniques for setting vision for his business to the techniques to set our own vision for a successful career. Remember power of visioning comes from imagining the future as if it is happening today. Here are the eight steps to a vision of your great career: STEP 1: Pick a specific topic - Its important to start by being clear what you are visioning for? Your skills, your income and asset, your retirement or an expensive car. STEP 2: Pick a time frame - Your vision works best if you set out the time frame. For example 1-2 years for short term career vision and 2-5 years for long term career vision will...

A news blog website (started in 2005 as political liberal news and blogs) started by Ariana Huffington is valued $315 million? What is happening in the tech world? A news website which had estimated $60 million of revenue last year is being paid 5 times. So what does this mean to the tech entrepreneurs ; the business does not have to be profitable in order to profit big time from it. The site huffingtonpost.com supposedly had 25 million unique visits in December. This proves that advertising model is working as strong as it used to few years ago. If you are interested to know who is benefiting from this cool $315M (according to NYTimes) Ariana Huffington and Ken Lerer founded the site in 2005 with $2M seed capital Greycroft Partners Softbank Capital Oak Investment Partners Robert W. Pittman , the former AOL executive