Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
“I am someone who does not give up,” Schwarzenegger said. “Especially when there is a problem as big and as serious as health care that needs to be fixed. One setback is just that — a setback. I still believe comprehensive health care reform is needed in California. We will keep moving forward. I can [...]
“He’s not playing with me because he doesn’t have hands… he has paws.”
Here’s a flashback… IDG is going all out with the relaunch of the Industry Standard and it is seems that black is the new black, judging by this little logo we snapped from the site. [From Industry Standard is Bringing the Bubble Back-- bub.blicio.us]
Short answer, no. But the tipping point was at best a collection of observations that are useful to explain a phenomena that cannot be manufactured or predicted. “It just doesn’t work,” Watts says, when I meet him at his gray cubicle at Yahoo Research in midtown Manhattan, which is unadorned except for a whiteboard crammed [...]
I love going to the market, it underscores my belief that all great food had to have started out as a dare. Take the entire shellfish category as an example, can you imagine anyone looking at an oyster for the first time and saying “gee I think I’ll eat that”? What is the weirdest food [...]
Two weeks ago, InfoWorld launched a petition campaign to save Windows XP. So far we???ve gotten more than 70,000 signatures, thanks to a passionate response from a wide range of XP users. We hope we can persuade Microsoft to keep selling XP licenses indefinitely, past the June 30 deadline, after which Microsoft has said no [...]
Seems like there is the potential for a litigious recursive loop scenario here in the event that posting a cease-and-desist letter results in a new cease-and-desist letter and that could well upset the delicate balance of life as we know it. The group Public Citizen hit back against this law firm’s claims, but surprisingly, a [...]
This is long overdue, IMO. When I look at the ever expanding endowments at major higher education institutions combined with rising tuition and fees that should be rolled into tuition, it occurs to me that student interests are often put behind self-interests at these universities. Publicly funded universities are not exempt either, consider for example [...]
Headline of the year (so far): In Hindsight: Apple stock no longer at early-adopter price [From San Jose Mercury News - In Hindsight: Apple stock no longer at early-adopter price]