First it was Gates with his memo about the sea change in software, now it’s TV. I think this is awesome. The first steps toward a complete redefinition of “television”, a new distribution model for TV shows, and a new Read more…
Wow, what an amazing weekend of football. Of course, I had to sit glued to my computer screen watching the stats refresh on all the games from the NFL website, but still it was exciting. First of all, Guze picked Read more…
As an Eagles fan since 1999, when Philadelphia became the first town that I moved to after college, I would just like to take this opportunity to tell both Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, who seem to feel fit to Read more…
What a novel concept for a music company, “let’s create software that blows up the computers of our customers!”
What the hell were these guys thinking in the first place? Developing malware to be put onto the machines of people who use their products without their knowledge, to monitor their activities and prevent them from doing things that Sony doesn’t want.
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With this I could watch US television remotely while in Europe. If I connected it to a TiVo as well (which I was extremely proud to be one of the early adopters of) I could finally get to watch some Read more…
I am really ambivalent about cynicism. On the one hand, I love to engage in it and appreciate it. On the other, I find people who are nothing but cynics intolerably boring. But this example from my pal Jack Rogers, Read more…
So, it begins with obesity instead of curing baldness. S’ok. It won’t be long now. I can wait a few more years. Say, three or four for more scientific discovery, two more for a specific delivery system to be perfected, Read more…
I have to assume that Bill Gates is a pretty smart guy. So when he says things like, there’s going to be a “sea change” in the software industry, I tend to take his word for it. I have to Read more…
Right from the start we knew it was going to be sucky. The first round, a picture round, was all logos of Dutch companies with the text removed. And our only native Dutch team member cancelled ten minutes before the Read more…
Well, my streak had to end some time. It’s not that I picked bad people for my team, it’s just that none of them put up anything other than mediocre numbers. I bet heavily on the Giants, taking their QB, Read more…