Sunday, October 11, 2009

Fear the Cloud: Microsoft Danger was well named

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Maybe the name was intended as a warning. Microsoft "Danger", formerly independent creators of the Sidekick Cloud-centric phone, d...

White water and the end of prediction

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I've indulged my pundocratic penchant for prediction over the years. I'm more or less reformed now however. It's not that the ...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Growing jobs - my old stimulus proposal

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Another day, another editorial on the jobs story. Maybe it's time to think about my old National Small Business Generation Service propo...

Google good, AT&T and old FCC evil

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It's fashionable today to disparage Google, to compare them to the Evil Empires of IBM and Microsoft, to mock the founders for faux idea...
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Friday, October 09, 2009

The file could not be found: The Decline of OS X

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I browse to a file in OS X and try to open it. The app respond "the file could not be found". I can copy it in the Finder though. ...

The Nobel for defeating the modern GOP

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Barack Obama wins the Nobel prize for defeating John McCain, pulling the GOP off the neck of the world, unwinding the Bush/Cheney Torture re...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

How to present - the super-short summary

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Loyd Eskildson, reviewing a book on Jobsian presentation tips, gives us a very succinct summary .... Amazon.com: The Presentation Secrets of...

Does last year's seasonal flu vaccine make us more susceptible to this year's H1N1?

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I've heard quite a bit of noise about this unpublished Canadian study, but an independent blog has the best summary I've read. Empha...

After healthcare reform the cleanup begins

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As I'd predicted back in the dark days . Team Obama will pull this off ... Is health on the way? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com .... ...

Gmail - 5 years, 6 months

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I looked up the oldest email I'd sent from Gmail . It was to Andrew on April 25, 2004... I have a gmail ("beta") account. Don&...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Verizon to support Google Voice on Android phones

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It's good to learn that Google and Verizon are partnering to deliver better Android devices. That's not surprising though. The surpr...

The end of the ink jet printer – and the twilight of printing

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My old Canon Pixma IP 4000 is sitting in the office lunch room with a “free – take me” note on it. I’m surprised to realize it’s about five ...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Vastitas Borealis water ice - did I slip into another universe?

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In this space time continuum we see a blurry satellite image and story about Mars Water-Ice Found at Vastitas Borealis . In the space-time c...

Marek Edelman, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 90

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From his obit ... Marek Edelman, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 90 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com Marek Edelman, a cardiologi...

Every 3 days you have a new heart

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Carl Zimmer has the most interesting biology essay I've read in quite a while. Emphases mine ... Secrets of the Cell - Self-Destructive ...