Quote of the Week

"Basically, I show up for life and serve"- Spc. Max Ramsey

Ramsey has made 50 parachute jumps since losing his left leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq. I saw an interview on television with him last night and was struck by his optimism and fortitude. This guy is not a victim, [...]

A Lesson in How to Not Expand a Network

We believe that by limiting your ability to personalize your pages with content from any source, MySpace is contradicting the very belief of personal and social media. MySpace became successful because of the creativity of you, its users, and because it offered a forum for self-expression. By severely restricting this freedom, MySpace is showing that [...]

Move on People, Nothing to See Hear

Update: As is my custom, I rarely spell check my posts so when I noticed the title I was tempted to change it but then it occurred to me that it might be more meaningful as is so I’m leaving it.

Mike Arrington might have the most rational comment about the aftermath of the Kathy Sierra [...]

Salesforce.com Acquires Koral

Salesforce.com acquired Koral last month and is launching a new business around content management. This acquisition makes a lot of sense and it is a good fit because not only does it plug-and-play already as an Appexchange offering, but given their market focus it’s a no-brainer in terms of build-out. I am curious to see [...]

Is Sam Zell Smart Like a Fox?

Lot’s of commentary about Sam Zell buying the Tribune company. I won’t bother linking to them all (because I’m too lazy tonight to go through the work of doing it).

Here are some of my comments, in no particular order.

Sam Zell is a legend in real estate and beyond for his ability to be counter-cyclical [...]

2007 World Green Car is Blue(tec)

I am a big fan of Bluetec diesel technology. Not only are these cars capable of delivering fuel economy equivalent to hybrids, they are doing so while providing impressive performance in a true luxury package. Diesel technology also scales to larger vehicles like buses and trucks, where hybrid technology has been ineffectual.

The Bluetec equipped E320 [...]

Talking Japanese

Somehow the "Three Laws" just sounds cooler, plus they are certainly easier to remember.

Three laws, the robotics experts say, are nowhere near sufficient to ensure human safety in a world where cleaning, carrying and even cooking could one day be performed by machines. So the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry [...]

New Blogger on the Block

Mike Prosceno is one of my former colleagues from SAP who had been threatening to enter the blogosphere for some time and after a good amount of prodding from other bloggers he has finally gone out and done it. Accidentally on Purpose is his blog, give him some link love.

So much [...]

Life vs. Living

Bill Gross’ latest newletter on housing prices, interest rates and bond yields is worth reading (when are they not?). However, trapped in here was an interesting observation about the virtual worlds.

Am I really suggesting that life might lie within “2001’s” HAL as well as on Walden Pond? Modernity is certainly moving in that direction. There [...]

Google Desktop for the Mac

Google released their Mac version of Desktop and I was curious about two things, the first being what I would get that I didn’t already have with Spotlight, and the second being the new Updater application that they use instead of the standard drag-and-drop OS X installer.

I generally don’t like updaters because you never really [...]

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