Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Okay, I have not done this in a couple of weeks but seeing as how I have a brand new copy of a book on Zimbra admnistration, and I don’t use Zimbra, well hopefully it will fall into the hands of someone who can take advantage of this fine publication. One final note, when I [...]
Ever since Google turned on IMAP in Gmail I have noticed some general service weirdness that is not easily explained: 1) Performance has swung from great to unusable in the online version. Today it’s moderately slow. 2) IMAP with Apple Mail is generally reliable but unreliable with enough frequency to make me cross my fingers [...]
(added first two paragraphs as an update to the post) As if we need any more examples of why you should be very skeptical of what you read these days, take the jump over to Felix Salmon’s fisking of the an opinion piece that should never have been published in the SF Chronicle recently. The [...]
NYTime columnist Tom Friedman has certainly recast himself as voice and conscience of climate change while in Bali over the last couple of weeks; I wonder how this sits with his 11,000 square foot living accommodations. One more time, when the people who are telling me this is a crisis start ACTING like it’s a [...]
Très cool. December 10, 2007: The French Navy sent a virtual (but real looking) frigate to the online game Second Life for a one week visit (November 29-December 4). The purpose was to help recruit the nearly 4,000 new sailors the navy needs to attract in the next year. Sailors from the Marine Nationale Française [...]
On Dec. 16, 1947 the first working transistor was created by William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain. It’s easy to overlook how every technology innovation for over half a century traces back to this one event, making the lowly transistor the most important invention of the 20th century.
Maybe the Governator should not have increased spending by 40% since taking office. It’s funny how California’s media loves to point out that Schwarzenegger is popular despite being a Republican, which isn’t hard to believe when you look closely at how much he resembles the Democrats in Sacramento. California’s Republican contingent has been fighting the [...]
T-Mobile blocks outgoing Twitter messages, according to TechCrunch. The company’s spokesperson doesn’t dispute it and then tells customers to basically fuck off if they don’t like it. …Twitter is not an authorized third-party service provider, and therefore you are not able to utilize service from this provide any longer…. T-Mobile is not in violation of [...]
We’ve all seen standard PR non-responses, as in “leaving to pursue other opportunities”, but my all time favorite excuse for an executive not responding to a question is this: “A Giants spokeswoman said Magowan was out of the country and unavailable for comment. “ [From Giant Enablers] Because, well you know, when you are out [...]
Does the idea of a global carbon tax administered by the United Nations frighten you as much as it does me? A massive tax scheme administered by an entity with zero accountability or moral authority bestowed on it by citizens. Whatever your position on climate change is, surely you cannot think that the United Nations [...]