Monthly Archives June 2008

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

Bill Gates = a personal hero. I love this e-mail. Microsoft is also a case of spreading things too thin.

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Oh forgot…

June 20th was my 3rd anniversary of me at Warner Bros. Records.
Time does fly! Three years ago I was just leaving academia after a few years off from corporate world work, and totally green walking into the 3300 building.
It has been challenging, fun, educational, sometimes frustrating and often rewarding. I have worked with the smartest [...]

Michael Stipe, declaring videos dead, tries to find new ways to promote music - International Herald Tribune

I’m glad I’m helping kill music videos

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Simple Pleasures

This morning my dad came over and we spent the entire morning testing out my new stereo setup by going through Rhapsody on the Sonos and adding cool tracks to the queue. What started as a test of just pure audio (ie, “the mids on this should be a good test”) ended with us digging [...]

criminal

Shawshank Redemption not listed in the “New Classics” in the latest Entertainment Weekly? CRIMINAL.

Amazon Said To Be Preparing a PayPal Killer. Wait, It Already Tried That.

Where amazon could be a win is if they did an AWS type implementation of a payment gateway a la PayFlow Pro or Authorize.net

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It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo

wow, I so predicted this yesterday talking to yet another ex Yahoo-ite.

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