Things I’d love to see. Bill Gates in an Apple Switch Advert.
Link thanks to UntuckedShirts!com.
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I’m Bill Gates, And I Own A Software Company.
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Richard
PS2 Mod Chip Win Opens The Door.
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Richard
The win for consumers in the Sony PS2 court case may open the door to relax the zoning for DVDs. On Friday “Eddy Stevens, a Sydney retailer sued by Sony for selling and installing Playstation modifications”, won the case to sell the chips. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have previously looked into the [...]
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Cyborg 2.0.
Posted on July 29, 2002 by Richard
Thomas Claburn at Lot 49 has an interview with Kevin Warwick. For those not familiar with Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, he has raised quite a buzz by implanting a chip into his peripheral nervous system. Wired ran an article on him a couple of years ago, Cyborg 1.0, front page [...]
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What You Said.
Posted on July 28, 2002 by Richard
Emily Dubberley has a great short story, What you Said. Very clever. I have to wonder why no one has done this yet.
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419 Scam, Just For The T-Shirt.
Posted on July 27, 2002 by Richard
Wow, my first 419 Scam email. It’s tempting to reply just for the t-shirt.
These guys are real slick. Take note of the International Dialing Prefix 873 found in their email below. That belongs to Inmarsat, a global satellite phone service. I can see them now, sitting in a tent in the Congo jungle, sweat beading [...]
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It’s A Small World, But I Wouldn’t Want To Paint It.
Posted on July 26, 2002 by Richard
Comedian Steven Wright said “It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it”, and I have to agree. It looks like the people at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, are trying to prove the concept. No, they’re not trying to paint it, they are trying prove the principle of “Six Degrees [...]
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Have More Of Your Money In The Market When Stocks Are Cheap.
Posted on July 26, 2002 by Richard
Some smart advice to investors.
“From a patient, disciplined perspective, you do not try to achieve perfect market timing. All you want to do is have more of your money in the market when stocks are cheap, and less of your money in the market when stocks are expensive. Today, relative to GDP, stock prices are [...]
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Microsoft Visits Your Home.
Posted on July 23, 2002 by Richard
Erick Schonfeld agrees with my view of Microsoft’s future foray into your lounge room in his article, Microsoft’s New Frontier: Your Home.
“While most of these consumer forays are extremely PC-centric right now, that may not always be so. At least, they may not involve what we think of as PCs today. The Tablet PC, Freestyle, [...]
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Make It 5 Years AT LEAST.
Posted on July 17, 2002 by Richard
Man arrested for burning kitten on grill.
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Digital Entertainment Hubs.
Posted on July 16, 2002 by Richard
A couple of months ago in a post I mentioned the concept of Microsoft making a push into the lounge room. At the time I suggested that we would see the XBox morph over the next few years into a connected home entertainment hub. Well, it looks like a version of Windows XP will be [...]
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