Going Back to Basics Sometimes it’s great to see Web sites go out of their way to make themselves appealing with sexy graphics and nifty multi-media. Yes, we are visual creatures and perhaps no sense is as much under assault than our visual sense on a daily basis. However, as the novelty wears off, it’s — Continue reading »
Will the Real Criminal Please Stand Up?
📆 July 1, 2004
Will the Real Criminal Please Stand Up? And so it begins, the much hyped trial of the century with Saddam Hussein in the limelight. There are also a number of other Baath party defendants playing in this charade, but who cares? Saddam is the real criminal. If Iraq had the equivalent of Nielsen Ratings, the — Continue reading »
RegFD Snags Siebel
📆 June 30, 2004
RegFD Snags Siebel It’s hard to imagine a company, much less a large and reputable one, breaking any obvious SEC laws these days. After witnessing so many companies and executives disgraced in public, you’d reckon that companies would go above and beyond their means to keep integrity at the top of their priority list. But — Continue reading »
Storage Out of Thin Air
📆 June 28, 2004
Storage Out of Thin Air It was bound to happen. Not long after Google started its one-Gigger Gmail service, other free email providers followed suit and raised their storage quotas by some unimaginable multiples. Just take a look at these three popular providers: Yahoo – from 6 MB to 100 MB iWon – from 6 — Continue reading »
The Skin Grid
📆 June 24, 2004
The Skin Grid Back in the old days in Engineering school, I remember setting my digital multi-meter (a souped-up voltage meter), to the most sensitive voltage level, press the leads against my skin and marvel at my body producing tiny and erratic amounts of voltage. Today Microsoft took that concept one step further by patenting — Continue reading »
Gmail: Spammer’s Paradise?
📆 June 17, 2004
Gmail: Spammer’s Paradise? Gmail, the high capacity free e-mail service from Google, is reaching more people everyday. Google made a smart move by gradually adding subscribers rather than opening the Gmail doors and letting the masses stampede all over its systems. So far so good. The most notable feature of Gmail is the one Gigabyte — Continue reading »
A Future Without Oil
📆 June 3, 2004
A Future Without Oil With the insatiable appetite of the world for fossil fuel, it's no wonder people are so nervous about the recent jumps in oil prices. Today the world economy is so tightly linked to oil and its byproducts, that living without it is plain unimaginable. It's difficult to believe that the human — Continue reading »
The Insidious Credit Card
📆 May 19, 2004
The Insidious Credit Card I make a concerted effort to pay off my credit card bills every month. It’s a challenge but I simply have a moral issue paying outrageous usuries to these fattened institutions while many of their customers have to scrape bottom to come up with minimum payments. If hamburger joints can be — Continue reading »
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