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Niel Robertson has a remarkable sense of humor combined with a keen technical intellect. I’d cherry pick a few of the one liners on his extensive post covering the “Halfway to Fusion” event that Oracle held last week, but there are just too many. This post is destined to become an email favorite within SAP. [...]
This is great news for Sling, and for me as I am a Sling customer and absolutely love it. Consumers have been fortunate over the last 5-6 years to be the beneficiaries of some fantastic new devices and the Slingbox takes it to a whole new level. People like to talk about Tivo as a [...]
Earlier today I wrote about Google caving into China and agreeing to censor speech. It’s all well and good to talk about these things in the abstract, but here’s how it looks in action, you decide:Google Image search on “Tiananmen”Google China Image search on “Tiananmen” I would wager that their regular Friday employee meeting is [...]
hehe… ScrappleFace » Gore to Star in Brokeback Mountain Sequel…Alone (Former Vice President) Mr. Gore told a tri-partisan gathering of political activists that he’s been cast in the lead role of Ang Lee’s sequel to ‘Brokeback Mountain’, the Golden Globe-winning cowboy adultery story. An unnamed spokesman for Mr. Lee said the film, ‘Brokerecord Mountain’, “will [...]
Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range: Job Qualifications: 5 Years Experience, Jack Bauer Type Capabilities Succeeds at working within a matrixed organization without direct lines of control Leads a team while also acting as an individual contributor Makes spot on decisions with 80% information Possesses honesty and passion Masters all the skills necessary for his job Gets [...]
McDonald’s has a blog for Corporate Social Responsibility (link via blog herald). Interesting. The blog has a big banner with the words “open for discussion” but when I read the comments to the first post, and there is only one post, I am struck by the observation that they didn’t respond to any of the [...]
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab I luv Memeorandum and all it’s reconstructor cousins. It’s one of the first things of my reading list. It’s hugely slashed my search costs in finding new stuff. But there’s a problem. Ever since I’ve started using it to the point where it replaces many of my other sources, I have gotten [...]
CALIFORNIA / Bullet train likely chugging to derailment / $9.95 billion bond could be taken off of November ballot Supporters warn that without high-speed rail, California would need to build 3,000 new miles of highway lanes, 60 new airline gates and five more runways to meet the transportation needs created by the state population growing [...]