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Guitar Hero III

I can’t believe that Guitar Hero III has been available now for two days, and I’ve yet to buy it. I do love to play video games, so I know that a lot of video games are released on Tuesdays. Little did I know that Guitar Hero was released Sunday. The whole family gets into Guitar Hero.

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Today when I made my what seems like daily trip to Wal-Mart, I saw Guitar Hero III but resists buying it. All they had was the game bundled with the guitar controller. I really don’t need another controller, especially a wired one. Another wireless controller would have been OK, and I probably would have bought it.

Of course, now looking at the picture a third guitar might not be a bad idea.

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The Company Intranet

When I was working, our company’s intranet was an in-house project. They liked to have their IT staff do a lot of projects themselves instead of looking for software solutions. The Intranet consisted of several different pieces of information that was hard to find what you were looking for at times. The first Intranet was done by interns and was mostly style over substance. They would have been much better off with an intranet software package.

They could have tried intranet software from Epazz to see if it was a right fit for their business. Epazz offers a 30 day trial period, which is always good for businesses to make sure the software is a good for their company. Epazz does integration to all back end software, so that is less of a headache for the IT department for sure. I’ve never worked at a place with more committees than my former employer. They could really use the group scheduling and business email solution of the Epazz intranet software. All of those committees had to post their minutes to the intranet. With Epazz’s content management system it would be very simple for those committees to do it themselves instead of having to send it in to MIS.

If I still worked there, I would have to insist that they check into an intranet software solution since doing it in house was very time consuming. With the other business responsibilities of MIS/IT, if maintaining the intranet was totally integrated and easy for the end user to update, it would be a lot better for all.

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MyBlogLog changes

Apprarently MyBloglog will undergoing some siginificant changes. The changes are not set in stone but were talked about at SOBCon in Chicago.

Apparently MyBloglog is now owned by Yahoo! The biggest changes announces will be a rebranding of the name and a completely new website. It will be interesting to see what develops and how the Yahoo! name will help MyBloglog.

Right now all I really use MyBloglog for is to check the stats of my blogs, which never are the same as my stat counter. It’s still interesting to see how visitors find my blog. The changes aren’t set in stone and apparently those in charge over at MyBloglog would like to get some feedback from the MyBloglog community.

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Babblz for Mommy Bloggers

I learned of Babblz through a post on My Single Mom Life. She said it was like Digg but for parents, so I had to check it out.

Babblz looks really cool. It’s small but growing. I’m always looking for blog posts relevant to raising kids and everything that goes along with it. Now I’ve found a way to find blog posts that are getting noticed.

Here is the direct link to Babblz.com. Registration is fast and easy.

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