March 2008
kudos for @timbray http://tinyurl.com/2p6pol
OOXML BRM FAIL http://tinyurl.com/2b8nfc (despite much MS cheering)
February 2008
Business 101 Q&A: do you lower the price of something that is selling like hot cakes ? good answer
from Ballmer, with love http://tinyurl.com/233p6w (PDF, 3.5 Mb)
twittter website down for me, yet IM works
“Every story is nothing but an infinite catastrophe, from which we try to get out...”
– Italo Calvino
MRI ? What MRI ?
austinhill: Brain training with MRI and visualization of active brain activity. Incredible short TED presentation
vruz: I guess that --in that context-- MRI doesn't stand for 'Matz's Ruby Interpreter' :-)
austinhill: Nope :) All the Ruby fanboys can still dream though. I'll go along with you if you want to say it does :)
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a...”
– Leonard Cohen (via ayse)
Microsoft is not inherently evil (no corporation can be) but I commend them for their perseverance
Gartner Report: Microsoft’s ‘openness’ potential patent trap http://tinyurl.com/2govm8 where’s the ethics ?
learning more about tumblelogging, any tumblr.com users around ?
finding youtube-spam annoying, now it’s ad inserts in the middle of a Jimi Hendrix video
not all apples are computers, and not all apples are rotten http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ozlkz
10 less-than-great personality traits of... →
fred-wilson:
I love entrepreneurs and all of these traits are spot on but in my mind good traits not bad traits.
“Freedom is a sort of habitual air without exotic perfumes, that is inhaled...”
– Juan Carlos Onetti
Microsoft fined EUR 900B for failing to comply with longstanding court ruling, where’s the ethics ?
any non-Windows-media debate video stream available ?
earth tremour near Manchester ? anyone near there ?
Penny felt the earthquake in Manchester, desk rattling and house shaking
Roger Waters to Play 'Dark Side of the Moon' in...
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and his band will perform his band’s classic 1973 album, ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, in its entirety at two UK gigs.
…
As reported by NME http://www.nme.com/news/pink-floyd/34675
WatchLawrence Lessig Bows Out
In his post on his blog called “On Why I Am Not Running,” Lessig laid out his reasons, noting that such a run had to do with–of course–polls that showed former State Senator Jackie Speier would win the district that encompasses a chunk of Silicon Valley.
(via Kara Swisher, BoomTown: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080226/lessig-bows-out/ )
“I believe that — in due time — we deserve to be without government.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
tweeting away the movements that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
native mobile apps RIP http://tinyurl.com/yppctb (mmmm really ?)
united colours of vruz :: http://vruz.tumblr.com :: 2008-02-25 Shipwreck, Adobe Open Source, Gotan Project
“Intellectual Property” is a silly euphemism, by Cory Doctorow http://tinyurl.com/22bgx8
Microsoft’s timing, making noise about nothing, keeping as closed as ever, old trick timed to eclipse Adobe’s announcement
Adobe’s opensources Flex 3 SDK http://tinyurl.com/yqujcf starts new open source technology website http://tinyurl.com/2f8gs2
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deprived of sleep: NO GOOD, so… it’s naptime right now
hope monger who ?
@scobleizer sleep well, Robert... tomorrow's always a better day
Scobleizer: @vruz there you go being hopeful again! Are you working for Obama? Heheh. Just kidding, have a good one!
“I think it’s more helpful to focus on texture, on interpersonal...”
– Seth Godin, The Problem with Perfect
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