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Monday, August 11th, 2008Photographer Thomas Hawk was thrown out of the
14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize its Brand
Thursday, August 7th, 2008What I Learned Today - 14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize its Brand
We’re not this young, beloved, entrepreneurial enterprise anymore… We have to do business in a different way
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Useability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Coca-Cola’s Big Fizzle
Friday, July 25th, 2008A brief history of the Coca-Cola Fiasco that was new coke.
In many ways, the Great Coke Debate revealed something about the current state of the American psyche. In a world of ceaseless change, people cling desperately to the known and the given. The old Latin Mass is gone, the phone company has been broken [...]
Jon Stewart, Daily Show on The New Yorker
Friday, July 18th, 2008from jeff jarvis at Buzz Machine:
Jon Stewart was, of course, brilliant in his defense of satire and The New Yorker:
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Burma - Before and After
Friday, May 16th, 2008At the moment there doesn’t seem to be a lot we can do, until the local rulers decide to allow aid in, without stealing it and without using it for propaganda purposes. However, once NGO’s and other agencies are allowed to operate fully in the areas affected by Cyclone Nargis, they will need all the [...]
Google data center locations
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Pingdom (a paid service that, amongst other things, can alert you when your site is down) put together a map of Google data centers based on approximate information from the unofficial Google Data Center FAQ. From Pingdom :
If you include data centers that are under construction, Google has 19 locations in the US where they [...]
Barack Obama’s Race Speech
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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In Tuesday’s speech, Obama has drawn a distinction between his religious connection with Mr. Wright, which should be none of the voters’ business, and having a political connection, which would be very much their [...]
Chicago - Indoor Drag Racing
Thursday, January 24th, 2008So it gets cold in Chicago, Illinois. So cold, in fact,that “the asphalt strips of US30 and Union Grove and Byron are covered in five foot drifts” of snow. So what did the desperate street racers of early ’60s Chicago do ?
Head indoors for some Drag Racing. Photos as well.
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