Free Wifi in Airports
This list is useful if you frequently find yourself in airports and you are pissed off that the wifi access isn’t free… Technorati Tags: free wifi
Google Checkout works most of the time…
This quote from Google’s PR person in response to criticisms about Checkout not working is probably not the best way to respond to critics. When it comes to a financial system, working most of the time is not good enough and Google should know that. BTW, my wife did use it to buy something online [...]
Off to Ireland for a couple of days
I’m outbound to Ireland today to speak at the IT@Cork event, my topic is pricing trends. I am looking forward to meeting Tom Raftery in person, having up until know just talked via email or phone with him. That I am speaking on pricing trends is somewhat interesting if for no other reason than this [...]
I’m done with Digg
Digg really is an innovative site but I’m finished with it. They didn’t let me down, or change the terms of service, or suffer outages, or lose users,… Digg just isn’t doing anything for me to make my day easier. I’m finding this with a number of “Web 2.0″ sites, after the initial enthusiasm wears [...]
Stanford plans huge hospital expansion
It’s about time… Stanford, for all their well earned praise in medical research and treatment capability, has one seriously crappy hospital. We went there for our first child and it was disappointing, the only thing you really wanted was to get out as quickly as possible. Our second child was born at Sequoia Hospital in [...]
Windows is 21 years old
Windows is 21 years old, jeez I feel old now… I remember that my PC-AT wouldn’t run Windows 1.0 well because I didn’t have enough memory, but nothing ran Windows very well leading to the joke: Q: how do you crash Microsoft Windows? A: start Microsoft Windows I later had a PS/2 with a mighty [...]
‘Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders
I have noticed an increase in the amount of spam reaching my inbox, almost all of it pushing penny stocks and featuring a graphic with consistent properties. However, in reading through this article I can’t help but admire the sophistication and ingenuity of the hackers who are behind this. It’s really a shame that same [...]
Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray are dead on arrival
There’s a certain amount of irony in the fact that one reason why the entertainment industry is pushing these new DVD formats is because of the DRM that more effectively frustrates counterfeiters but when you think about it the best way for the entertainment industry to eliminate piracy would be invest heavily in broadband deployments [...]
Milton Friedman, 1912-2006
The impact that Friedman had is incalculable and easily surpasses any other 20th century economist. It’s always interesting to consider how history would be different if seemingly disconnected events transpired in different ways because people like Friedman were able to influence a different direction. For example, Friedman believed that the Fed miscalculated greatly at the [...]
Milton Friedman, 1912-2006
The impact that Friedman had is incalculable and easily surpasses any other 20th century economist. It’s always interesting to consider how history would be different if seemingly disconnected events transpired in different ways because people like Friedman were able to influence a different direction. For example, Friedman believed that the Fed miscalculated greatly at the [...]
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