Pi Day

Today is international Pi Day. Rock on.

Microsoft Buys Ad Inventory Management Firm Rapt

Congratulations to Tom and the crew, this has been a long time coming. Rapt has been around for the better part of a decade and has it’s roots in enterprise supply chain management (Sun was their first customer), so it’s a great case study about how a management team can repurpose one solution to another [...]

Evolution of Security: Apple MacBook Airs are Cleared for Takeoff

Couple of interesting things about that story of the MacBook Air owner who got stopped at an airport security checkpoint. First and foremost, TSA was doing it’s job, which is to single out things that don’t fit a known profile, which the Air certainly does not. Second, this story got so much attention because their [...]

Núñez’s bill taxing oil companies falls short

For Democrats in California the solution always involves raising taxes and fees. Never do they consider slowing the growth of state government, spending more efficiently, and not doing things the government shouldn’t be doing anyway. BTW, whenever Núñez and his pals talk about “the wealthy” he is referring to you and me… combined family income [...]

Marketing as Blood Sport

Jason Corsello posting an interesting piece about enterprise software vendor bashing which tied in with the whole 6A/Wordpress food fight the other day.

One thing I do know for sure….our enterprise customers despise when one vendor bashes another. Frankly, its bad salesmanship, and more often than not, comes across as an act of desperation. [...]

Carbon Credits Won’t Help

Well this is a big downer for an otherwise fine day.

If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth will be dragged from its orbit by an engorged red Sun and spiral to a rapid vaporous death.[From The End of the Earth - Sun - Dennis Overbye [...]

Going Directly At Your Competitor

When I read this post from Anil Dash suggesting that the right WordPress upgrade plan would be to convert to Movable Type I was surprised. Both Six Apart and Automattic have been pretty civil towards one another and while everyone knows they are competitors you would be hard pressed to determine that from their marketing [...]

That’s Gotta Hurt

What the market gives… the market takes away. Charts are fun, check out Citigroup vs. Google for the last 3 months. To be fair, if you stretch it out 6 months GOOG doesn’t look nearly as bad as Citi until you consider that the decline from the peak of GOOG over that time to today [...]

Del.icio.us vs. Instapaper

I’ve been using Instapaper a whole lot more than Del.icio.us so I decided to kill the del.icio.us widget in my sidebar and replace it with one that has both del.icio.us and Instapaper feeds. The fact remains that I don’t post to del.icio.us that much anymore.

Just Great, Now There Are 14 Sins

As if 7 mortal sins weren’t enough, the Vatican has decided to add 7 more.

First let me give you a little background on my dealings with the Catholic church. I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic (Jesuit) schools, which pretty much turned me off to religion most of my adult life. There is a [...]

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