February 2003

by alec on February 26, 2003

The Second Resolution.  The Washington Post on French motives.   

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by alec on February 25, 2003

IDT Submits Bid for Global Crossing.  IDT is huge, and becoming larger all the time.  What’s shocking is that the bid is just $250MM.  Global Crossing put billions into building this network.  In 2001, alone, they spent over $1.2BB.  

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February 23, 2003

Rondi Adamson in the Ottawa Citizen: Peaceniks should grow up instead of just pretending to.   The peace movement just has it wrong.  They’d rather sacrifice freedom for peace, and that’s plain stupid. “it would never occur to me that anyone over the age of 11 would not be able to clearly think through to their [...]

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Let’s Try Zundel Denial

February 22, 2003

Rex Murphy: Let’s try Zundel Denial.  Rex is merciless, as always.  "If Ernst Zundel is a refugee, Daffy Duck is Albert Einstein." "This creature, by his own works, has put himself beyond the pale. We don’t have to ostracize him. He has ostracized himself. And if there is no other justice but the poetic, let [...]

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February 22, 2003

Americans minimize Canada’s trade role.  

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February 21, 2003

Randy – not ignoring you.  Just having trouble getting sympatico to take an outbound mail.  

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February 20, 2003

Power Laws, and the Dagger in the Heart of the Recording Industry.  Great analysis on Due Diligence of what the real threat to the recording industry.  Several themes pop up — channels, radical marketers, the efficiency of the internet.  The entire analysis could equally be applied to Microsoft and it’s position in the software industry [...]

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February 19, 2003

Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft Tests the Blogging-Tool Waters.   Everybody’s blogging now.  AOL has announced plans too.  Mary-Jo also linked the Microsoft Watch web site to my blog this afternoon.  Been a banner day… I’ve never had more hits.  Thanks for the flow!     

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February 18, 2003

Remove the plank from your eye, Nat Hentoff Anti-Semitism in Canada. I don’t know who Nat Hentoff is, but he is clearly, unequivocally, wrong.   Yes, the incidents in question occurred, but they are few and far between in Canada.  When anti-semitic incidents do occur in this country they are widely vilified.  Unlike the US, many types of [...]

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February 17, 2003

OpenCOLA dead? Just stumbled across this rant by a disgruntled former OpenCOLA employee about the VC’s who pulled the plug on the company.  Certainly hope that OpenCOLA survives.  The product is excellent, actually.  I use it all the time for searching.  A limited version is available for free on www.opencola.com.  Try it!  The full version is [...]

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