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If you ever worked with/for/in conjunction with a corporation…

…then Jargonista is for you.

For all of you out there who sat in endless meetings where the following words were uttered:

  • resonate
  • facilitate
  • approach
  • springboard
  • players (in reference to people with important-sounding titles)
  • messaging
  • strategic
  • positioning

… and the list goes on. My beloved wife found this link – thank you!

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Too old for Borat

I am growing old. Or Borat was just not that great, which is also possible.
The movie is very funny at times but I felt it was also taking advantage of the welcome innocent people extended to a foreigner, however narrow minded they are themselves. Or maybe that was the trick – to show the real face of people behind the gentile facade.  And yeah, if you were worried about it, Antisemitism and xenophobia are alive and well in America.

A perfect 7.

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Using videos from Nokia phones – Converting MP4/gp3 to AVI

We are working with a Nokia N70 phone which is really not cool anymore in Europe but in the US it is absolutely remarkable. We shot some video with its really remarkable for Americans camera and wanted to use it. Being really cool I transferred the video over Bluetooth but the files are not playable in Windows Media nor usable in Flash as they are in the mp4 format, wrapping the gp3 codec.

There are a bunch of conversion utilities that cost money but there is also a tool from the people behind the amazing-but-I-never-really-tried-it Zwei-Stein Video editing application.  t@b can do the job of conversion from mp4 to AVI and seems to work admirably. Yay!

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