Notes for 1/28/2007

Here are my weekly notes:

• I’m giving a talk tomorrow night on podcasting to students taking a fourth year e-marketing course at the University of Alberta. Should be fun!
• I’ve praised Office 2007 in the past (minus Outlook 2007) but it’s worth doing again. The new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint versions are amazing. Believe it or not, using them is fun! If you haven’t had a chance to try them, you’re missing out.
• Here’s an interesting post from the writer of the Elk Cloner virus – the first known computer virus that spread “in the wild.”
• Looking for a new blog to read? Check out It’s a Rich, Full Life. The blog is written by Chris LaBossiere of ProTraining.com, the guys that won VenturePrize last year.
• If you’re under 25 years of age and are interested in video, why not join UNICEF’s one-minute video contest? The deadline is March 30th, 2007.
• Sir Richard Branson is launching a Virgin-branded stem-cell storage company. Parents will be able to put the umbilical blood of their newborn into cold storage. If I was having kids, I’d do it. Who knows what magic the scientists will come up with in the future!
• This is nuts…a 23 foot long python swallowed at least 11 guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia before being discovered.