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« Previous EntriesMidnight On The Coast Highway
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008This piece has become known by several names, including “Midnight On The Coast Highway” and “The Dope Cabala and a Wall of Fire”. This is due to it being being excerpetd and published out of context so many times. It’s actually most of the last chapter of Hunter S Thhompson’s 1967 book “Hell’s [...]
Transcript of Mccain’s Concession Speech
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Sen. John McCain conceded the presidential race before a crowd of supporters in Phoenix on Tuesday November 5 2008. He also congratulated Sen. Barack ObamaThe following is an exact transcript of his speech, sourced from cnn.com.
Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.
My friends, we have — [...]
Transcript of Obama’s Acceptance Speech
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, on Tuesday night November 5 2008, after winning the race for the White House . The following is an exact transcript of his speech, sourced from cnn.com.
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kevin Rudd
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is limbering up to address the great and good at New York’s Hyatt Hotel. Also in New York, ostensibly for discussions on the financial crisis, is Australia’s leader Kevin Rudd.
But is it the same Kevin Rudd who vowed to take “legal action” against Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the International Court [...]
The irony of the financial crisis
Friday, September 19th, 2008Dennis Howlett has an excellent post pointing to some of the causes of the current financial instability, including the part that greed and irresponsibility played.
without a morally bound ethical compass, we all go to hell in a hand basket. Courtesy of inept and emasculated government, aided and abetted by an incompetent audit profession bending over [...]
Crack Cocaine Cconomics
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Lifted from Dennis Howlett’s excellent article on Crack Cocaine Economics and six ways to get off it.
This talk by economist Steven Levitt, filmed at TED Talks shows what it is like being at different points in the crack cocaine gang hierarchy.
This is the basis of (or comes from) one of the more famous chapters [...]
Is the post 9/11 World Turning against Photography ?
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 [...]