Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
In other Cellular news, Sprint is once again trying to have its cake and eat it too... According to a press release posted on their site, instead of shutting down this half-breed "cellular" network with no possibility of carrying next-gen services such as mobile web, let alone high-speed data services, ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
So in the last week or two, several people at my day job have enquired about using a Mac that they purchase themselves for their company workstation. As I've said, it's no secret that I'm not a fan of Apple, and have made no effort to avoid saying so at work. I'm ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Those who have followed my blog in the past know that I tend to rant about the cellular industry (see this post from Sep-2006, and this followup post from Oct-2006). Today I ran accross this article from the AP, which says that Sprint/Nextel is planning to cut 4,000 jobs and shutter 125 ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I found this article, entitled Sun to aquire MySQL. I have mixed feelings about this. I really like MySQL, both the product and the company. In fact, at my day job we actually pay them for support -- partially because it's nice to have the support available, and partially because ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Joel sent me this link to an article about Ford sending their legal bulldogs after a club of Ford Mustang owners. Appearently the club produces a calendar every year, featuring photos taken by the club members themselves of their own vehicles. Ford doesn't like somebody else publishing photos of their products.
It ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Last year, which is to say, 10 days ago (on 31-Dec-2007), we donated to One Laptop Per Child, under their "give one get one" promo -- $400, one to give, one to keep ($200 apiece, plus some shipping on the one to keep). In addition to donating to what I feel ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Slashdot linked to an article about a startup in the bay area who is building floating datacenters out of decomissioned cargo ships. The ships will be perminantly moored in various places around the world.
What a stupid idea... Here's why (offhand):
The article states that all they need in order to expand is ...
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