Culture
MiniMicrosoft Blog drawing eyes A blog written by a Microsoft insider is getting a lot of buzz going for its frank look inside the beast. I find it kind of lame. Blogging about Microsoft is like making fun of GWB. It’s too easy.
Only 17% of those use cellphones for more than calls UK firm Mobeon [...]
Steve Jobs resists price adjustments in iTunes I can’t really comment on the pricing thing, but I think Steve is right. I also think he’s a businessman and thus is blowing a lot of smoke up many asses annd kind of gooing “neener neener” to the record companies. That’s our Steve. Sigh.
Google launching a “secure” [...]
For those of you unfamiliar with this man, he is the son of John Gotti, and thus the mafia prince. He used to have headquarters on the Lower East side, which is now becoming a gentrified neighborhood, rather than Little Italy as it used to be, and is more accurately Little Chinatown. I think [...]
Apple integrating iSights into laptops? - Interesting business proposition and it goes toward the ubiquity of Wi-Fi and the ease of use with iChat. However, more important I think is what Apple’s plans are with cell carriers with UTMS and EVDO. 3G cellular networks, a Powerbook and an iSight is an interesting proposition, as we’re [...]
And has terrible service.
Let me explain. I blogged earlier about an incident in which my wife and I went to a restaraunt (incidently, Chiara at 43 E. Colorado St, Pasadena, CA) where after taking my order, the waiter ignored my wife’s attempt at ordering. This was not good, although, rather funny at the time.
Tonight however, [...]
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Posted 16 September 2005
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One of the best parts of my job is that it doesn’t require a lot of thinking, thus meaning that I’m not surrounded wall-to-wall with great and like-minded thinkers (that’s what the internet is for) to quarrel with everyday. What was supposed to be just a stopgap (do stopgaps last over two years?) [...]
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Posted 16 September 2005
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It’s amazing to me the primal urgency that occurs when the things that make civilization civilized cease to function. I mean of course the fact that yesterday, we lost power and then Internet, one after another.
When power goes out, not much can happen. Sure, some things are battery powered, some things are on backup power [...]
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Posted 13 September 2005
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