Thursday, January 31, 2008

Obama and I are in 76% agreement.

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FMH pointed to Glassbooth which told me: "Barack Obama shares a 76% similarity with your beliefs". Hilary wasn't far behind a...

Wanted: examples of publicly traded companies with accounting solutions that support internal collaborative projects

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It's an age-old problem for large publicly traded companies, regardless of industry. Two groups want a new toolbox (for example) The...

Microsoft's FeedSync: what the heck is it and why would anyone care about a trivial problem like data synchronization?

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Jacob Reider, the master of the terse post , apparently likes Microsoft's FeedSync. Of course, Jacob, you didn't bother to say why...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Dyer: six articles for 2008

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Gwynne Dyer 2008 has new essays on Kenya, Thailand, the papacy, the Tata Motor Nano, the Middle East and, of course, the US. As has been tr...
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Games the media play: the race card

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I've been thinking the same thing for a while, looking for an opportunity to say it. FT.com | Clive Crook's blog: How the press...

Florida's 90% better future means Edwards can be kingmaker

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Months after he was written off, McCain is the GOP favorite. I assume the Trilateral Commission is at work, otherwise I can't explain t...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Who mourns for the loss of Apple's unique file identifiers ...

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One of the most innovative features of the early Macintosh machines were that each file had a unique identifier. The file "name" w...

To sleep, perchance to run lossy compression algorithms

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Another NYT article on theories about why humans sleep: Sleep - Brain - Neurons - New York Times : ...So Dr. Tononi and a colleague, Chiara ...
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Audio books for children: the list that's hard to find

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Audio books are more effective than sleeping gas for quieting our kids in the car. Since I figured out how to use iTunes and Missing Sync fo...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Future shock: the Nexus 7000

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I remember when putting 15 giga bits a second across a fiber optic connection was real research news. Rough Type points to today's NYT ...

Minnesota's caucus and Florida's 71 to 22 percent preference: Clinton wins.

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If I had the only vote in America, I'd probably vote for John Edwards. Otherwise, If he passed much more study than I've bothered wi...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Boltzmann's brain hits the big Times

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The New York Times that is. In a reprise of John Tierney's NYT interview with Nick (we're in a simulation) Bostrum   Dennis Overbye...

Undecided voter? You're in bad company

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It's a little secret of national politics that, past the primaries, 99% of the electorate with any significant connection to reality has...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

John's head explodes: AT&T rebate paid with an AT&T debit card

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My head just exploded. Ok, so I knew when I did the deal with Satan's pond-sucking scum that I should expect a shaft or two, but this o...

The BlackBerry Pearl is Android 0.8

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So now I realize ( see especially ) what Google's been doing while they neglect Blogger, Google Apps, and most of their non-search prop...