Archive for June 19th, 2006

Here’s a picture of a bridge that joins the former East and West Germany over the River Elbe. Yeah, it’s a bridge for barges… amazing engineering. Now for you armchair engineers, does the bridge have to be designed to support the weight of the water or the weight of the water plus the vessels? Click [...]

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Micro-Kernel vs Monolithic YET AGAIN!
Sinopec IPO
Windstream Poaches XO’s CTO
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19Jun

Thomas Hawk Joins Zooomr

Posted by Jeff as Companies

Thomas Hawk, a pseudonym, writes a really interesting blog about technology and photography, but mostly photography. I’ve stumbled on his blog a while back and have enjoyed his writing immensely, linking to his posts on occasion. I was surprised to read that he is joining Zooomr, the digital photo site created by Kris Tate. Actually, [...]

And if he did chose suicide would he have delegated it in an attempt to avoid legal responsibility? This puff piece allows Skilling to paint himself as the victim when in fact he has been convicted of being a central conspirator. What really pisses me off about the entire Enron debacle, aside from the rather [...]

19Jun

Wetpaint launches

Posted by Jeff as Wikis

Wetpaint launched their public wiki service today featuring a nicely designed user experience, contextual advertising, and some great customer wikis, including my own Indian Motorcycle Wiki. I haven’t invested nearly as much effort in my wiki as some of the other beta sites, which really started out as a simple reference wiki for me to [...]

19Jun

One Man, One Bullhorn

Posted by Jeff as Blogs

One of my favorite writers is Michael Yon and he has been in a dispute with a French publishing company about a new magazine they recently launched. While some have objected to the content of the magazine I will reserve judgement because they have a right to publish whatever content they want, however, they do [...]

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The Death of Retail, Continued
Barnes and Noble Retail Split?
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