Some concern about !=
It has been pointed out to me that my post about I, Cringely might have been misunderstood thanks to my usage of != in the title. Specifically that it might be read as “I, Cringely !” and then “= crap”, or “Robert Cringely’s site is crap”.
!= is a common entity used in some programming languages [...]
The thing I like about politicians…
…is their humility and the empathy they share with mankind. Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, intern to US senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, sent this break-up email to his girlfriend Michelle, informing her in no uncertain terms that their relationship was over. Then the internet got a hold of it:
I will always have more friends than you just [...]
Microsoft’s biggest enemy is…
Apple? Nah. Linux? Nope. Java? Heh, that’s so 2001. No, according to Robert Scoble, employee of Microsoft and he of Scobleizer fame, Microsoft’s biggest enemy is: analog thinking.
Yeah, believe me, I’m all for my employer getting as much of new contracts as possible. The guys at Apple and in the Linux cabal are just as [...]
I, Cringely != crap
Most of the content on the internet is crap. I think I’d be really quite generous if I were to estimate that only 90% of every piece of content bouncing around the pipes is crap. It’s that last 10% that makes the whole thing worth it all.
One of my favourite columnists, and thus part of [...]
OpenCola RIP?
Bumming around the web at 3am I came across this tidbit from a chat session between Randy Morin of iBLOGthere4iM and Ken McLeod:
randymorin: Have you heard of Opencola?
kenmacleod: just a reference
randymorin: They died last week.
randymorin: Just a sad note.
randymorin: They had a good concept of the Semantic Web, but ran out of money before any [...]
Damn! It’s the Terminator!
Kevin Warwick, of the University of Reading, has created a robot that looks a hell of a lot like the Terminator after it got good and blown up at the end of the film:
Meet Morgui, the new robot constructed at the University of Reading, which has been deemed so scary it has been banned from [...]
TechTV scoops some RIAA subpoena ID’s
TechTV is reporting some of the Kazaa usernames that the RIAA has subpoena’d in their on-going battle to crush on-line file sharing. If you’re on here, you might want to stay low for a bit. That’s right, I’m talking to you hooterzzz@Kazaa.
Google Ad wierdness
Today I recorded a record xxx Google Ad impressions, an all-time high that beats the old record set on July 8, 2003 by exactly xxx impressions. Of those xxx impressions, a mea…
Google’s Terms and Conditions state:
You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without Google’s
prior written consent. “Google Confidential Information” includes without
limitation: …(b) click-through rates [...]
Job Posting: No Windows wanted
From Monster.ca:
A proven track record deploying product under Linux is a must. Windows experience is a disadvantage.
Masterbate to prevent cancer
I couldn’t make this up:
Masturbating more than five times a week between the ages of 20 and 50 could protect men against prostate cancer, Australian researchers claim today.
Link: Masturbation could protect against prostate cancer, study suggests
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