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2008 June 18

NY Times Embraces Cloud Computing

The business of news is a forward thinking one, where reporting on current events brings eyes and mind on the events of the future.
The New York Times has always had an eye on the past as well, by maintaining a very careful inventory of all the output of the past. Just last month, the fully [...]

Ray Ozzie – Moses or Pied Piper?

The number of articles concerning the changes at Microsoft gets larger each day. with the end of this month defining the end of an era, it seems that he question of whether Ray Ozzie, the man designated to guide the ship, can bring Microsoft out of the doldrums that began with the late release of [...]

With Google It’s Hard to Lose People

Doing some data mining today, I was interested in what had happened to contributor George Ou, whom I had found gone from ZDNet. I guess that I should have been more observant, but then I have been spending less time on ZDNet lately, as there seems to be a dearth of news reported there these [...]

Cell Phone Popcorn – Hoax Exposed

The video on YouTube was amazing. Thousands and thousands of hits. The video of several people popping corn with their ringing cell phones is very interesting, and gives lots of people the impression that the emissions from cell phones are dangerous.
That is exactly the impression that the company behind the ‘project’ wants planted. It will [...]

Via PC-1 Initiative- What Happened?

Just a couple of months ago, there was a big push for the Via PC-1 platform in my area (Southern California). I almost purchased one, to be used as the start of a low cost machine to run Smoothwall Express 3.0 on a regular basis.
You see, I have tried Smoothwall in the past, and [...]

Long Term Study – Coffee Keeps You Alive

You have a study, I have a study. Everyone has a study. Especially when some of life’s toughest questions are concerned. One study says something is good for you, a competing opinion is given by yet another controlled test.
Well, the study I refer to uses a very large sample, and uses a very long time [...]

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