‘To describe writing as ” Orwellian ” means that it expresses a pessimistic view of a dull, uniform world where every aspect of life is controlled and organized by the State.’1 This is certainly an accurate description of my writing on the subject of Microsoft (and corporate culture in general). I consider myself a desktop [...]
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Darkness Grows: Microsoft stalks Yahoo!
February 1st, 2008 
Tim source: CNNMoney You don’t think Google is making them nervous, do you? The problem with this deal is that Yahoo is now an old school company. They’re stale, trying to keep up rather than leading the way. And what is this deal going to do for Yahoo? You don’t find any company staler and more [...]
Renault in Linux deal with Microsoft, Novell
February 1st, 2008 Tim source: InfoWorld This is because the technologically-challenged twits that make the business calls at large companies feel safe and snuggly in the arms of the Evil Empire. It’s like the old saying, “No one ever got fired for choosing IBM.” Why can’t Novell just deal with this? Because the CXX-level twits at Renault insist on [...]
Cre8Buzz! Themes Site
January 29th, 2008 Tim I’m enjoying this new site so much! Cre8Buzz! is a friendly network of talented people trying to spread the word of their projects while making friends and contacts. Because of the ranking system, and the communities, it is easy to quickly find talented people in many fields. Two things I noticed immediately: the warm welcome [...]
Messenger Primed for Mercury Pass
January 13th, 2008 Tim BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Messenger primed for Mercury pass This is exciting! I remember watching the Apollo missions as a kid. When the Eagle landed in July of 1969, one month prior to my ninth birthday, I could hardly contain myself. I remember watching the (mostly) men in the control room cheering and shaking [...]
The First Android Apps: From a Linux Startup!
January 13th, 2008 Tim Introducing the first Android prototype – USATODAY.com A post on Mashable brought this to my attention. It should be no surprise that a CA Linux startup, A La Mobile, is the first to offer a suite of apps based on Android, Google’s mobile platform. Let’s hope open source can play an increasingly important role in [...]
Ashley Spencer Memorial Fund
January 10th, 2008 Tim I’ve only been on Twitter about one month. In that time, it has impressed me greatly with it’s potential for building relationships in such a simple way. I didn’t know Ashley but, as John Donne observed: No man is an island… Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never [...]
technorati tango
January 6th, 2008 Tim Technorati Profile This is a test post to link to technorati. Edit: It hasn’t worked yet. After embedding the code from technorati in this post, I clicked “release the spiders” (what a horrid metaphor). In less than a minute, a message informed me “we can’t connect to your blog. Try again later.” I’ve tried several [...]
Long, Misty Days
January 6th, 2008 Tim Fog 4 Originally uploaded by dragonci If my external environment matched my inner one, I would be sitting in a not-so-comfortable armchair in a 19th century Victorian house in dire need of repair. Looking through the open french doors, I would see this misty, dreary landscape of barren trees; old trees with strong, gnarled branches [...]
FaceOff: My Mind’s Data is My Data
January 3rd, 2008 Tim Reading some of the comments on the Robert Scoble v. FaceBook issue this morning, which centers on an issue of great importance for all of us. It seems FB suspended Scoble’s account because he was using a script to gather data from his account. FB’s IDS probably caught the activity and took automated action. But [...]
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