Today Google decided to pull its operations and Web site out of China. Remember that Google, like many other technology companies, is filled by the sort of people who detest bowing to authority. And why should they? What China calls subversive is people voicing their opinions. Why should any government repress its people? Take away — Continue reading »
Jogging Tragedy
📆 March 16, 2010
I happened on this story today about a 38-year old father who was struck and killed from behind by a small plane making an emergency landing. As a fellow jogger and a father I found the story saddening and I wish his family the best as they cope with the terrible loss. What made this — Continue reading »
The Older Chrome Browser
📆 March 2, 2010
I love how the 1&1 login page depicts my Chrome browser as "older browser version". Ironically my Chrome version is the Dev channel. Can't get much newer than that 🙂 chrome browser,1&1 — Continue reading »
Pavel Chekov Real Tragedy
📆 February 25, 2010
Today I saw Walter Koenig in a news conference surrounding his son's suicide. What struck me was how old Koenig actually looked. Of course he looks just fine for his age, but to me Pavel Chekov (the character Koenig played on the original Star Trek series) should always be the young officer with a funny — Continue reading »
Microsoft Office Live Ends Free Domain
📆 February 14, 2010
About a year or two back when Microsoft was offering a free domain name with their Office Live product, I had signed up with some throw-away domain name to test it. The experience was less than impressive, far less, so I just forgot about the whole thing. I was recently reminded of the domain name — Continue reading »
Airport Security
📆 February 10, 2010
Does it seem a bit odd that a person is found dead in the wheel well of a plane that flew from New York to Tokyo and other than a passing mention there isn't much media coverage? Meanwhile the case of the man who foolishly went the wrong way in the security area of Newark — Continue reading »
Server Room from Hell
📆 February 7, 2010
Ok, admit it, how many of you have server rooms that look like below? We did, for a couple of days while we were moving the machines out to a new location. That's a real picture below. Believe it or not this worked out rather well while we finished the migration. The company's web site — Continue reading »
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