Category: miscellaneous
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Cha-cha-cha-changes
This is supposed to be the last day the old UGS sign is hanging on the office outside my window. Any minute now I am supposed to be kicked out of my office so they can install a shiny new Siemens sign. Ah, to think how many signs have hung off this building…SDRC, EDS, UGS…
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The Volunteer Economy – not just an IT concept
.!. Doc Searls does a short write-up on the volunteer economy and how it related to parsing out what an eventual Yahoo-Microsoft combination would be worth (less than Microsoft would hope) if Microsoft sticks to past behavior patterns: The Volunteer Economy | Linux Journal While the number of real examples of the volunteer economy (or…
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Microsoft, the cloud and the innovator’s dilemma
Good post (as always) from Nick Carr this morning is response another good post by Henry Blodget: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Does Microsoft need consumers? Yes. It seems that Mr. Carr is a big fan (at least subconsciously) of Clayton Christensen and his innovators dilemma. I imagine you have clicked through and read the…
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Epiphany of the day: Why I am so interested in blogging
In full disclosure I actually had this epiphany yesterday, but work got in the way of posting about it, so here goes. I was in some what of a reflective mood yesterday and was remembering some of my earliest days in the working world. I like to think that I have stayed true to some…
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Sunrise
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DRM… for your car
This isn’t exacts what I would expect after paying $80k for a new sports car. But then again as more and more software makes it in to other products I bet bet we’ll see more and more of this. Nissan GT-R can’t take aftermarket wheels, unapproved race tracks are out – Autoblog download 2010 sex…
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Google routes around IT again
This in today from the NEW YORK TIMES: Google Introduces New Edition of Its Hosted Applications Suite – New York Times I have been using Google docs personally for almost a year now. It does everything I need for my own work, and I can get to things wherever I am. May have to kick…
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Virtual 007
Look out all you second life avatars: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Spies in Second Life Yeah, that’s right the people you meet in Second Life might not be who they say they are!?!?! Who would of thought 😉
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My newest gadget
I picked up a new gadget a few weeks ago and I haven’t had time to post about it, but I have to say it is a must buy for anyone looking for the best BT headset ever. It’s the Jawbone boy a movie download . I’ve used it in crowded lobbies ful of people,…