May 2003

May 13, 2003

Enterprise Randy expresses disappointment with the latest Enterprise episode.  Human’s discover Borg frozen in the ice in Antartica.  One awakens, and starts to assimilate the researchers.  It’s kind of a resurrection of John W. Campbell’s classic sci fi movie, The Thing, crossed with a zombie movie, like Night of the Living Dead.  It’s a good yarn, and it was filmed [...]

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May 10, 2003

Very clever Honda ad Pretty impressive — check it out on ParadiseLost.com.    

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May 9, 2003

Cannibilize or die And the third from our Smug Friend. He goes off the rails on this one.  It starts with a rant about security, and moves from there to a tirade on Microsoft’s high handedness to… I don’t know what. There’s a couple of things that are worth drawing from this: Microsoft has a [...]

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May 8, 2003

Me – on a Chinese Weblog My referrer logs turned this up today — 中文Blog心得集 .  I wish I could read it, but it appears that this blogger has copied the Microsoft Watch list of (ex) Microsoft bloggers onto his webpage.  The blog phenom continues!   

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May 7, 2003

SARS Humor [The Real Geek's Blog] Public Health Warning – B.A.R.S.. S.A.R.S. take two! Major yikes!!! And I think I’m infected.   

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Opening the pool

May 6, 2003

Ugh! Nowhere near as smooth as last year.  The winter before we had it closed by Purewater, and opened by Purewater.  Purewater guarantees the water will be clear if they do the work.  It was perfect.  Last winter it was done by Mermaid, the people who installed our pool.  Six of the stoppers came loose [...]

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Charles Hudson: Do Startups Change Consumer Behavior?

May 6, 2003

Very good.  Do Startups Change Consumer Behavior?. I had lunch with a very successful technology investor friend of mine and he made a very interesting comment. He pointed out that he no longer hears about startup companies trying to "change consumer behavior" anymore. Smart companies that he… [Charles Hudson's Weblog] It’s hugely hard to change [...]

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Corante: RSS Feeds Now

May 6, 2003

Been off subscribing to all the RSS feeds at Corante!  Yee Haa!  Nice they’ve finally done this.  But… the Moore’s Lore feed has a busted RSS file.  Radio won’t take it. Hope someone there is reading this…

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Crazed Monkey on Gay Marriage

May 6, 2003

Enough with the gay marriage debate already! is a good rant.  I think my favorite line in the whole thing is this one. I am sick and tired of hearing people, mostly religious nuts, waxing on about "the family" and how vitally important it is that a wedding only involve someone with a penis and [...]

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May 5, 2003

Sens move up I felt sorry for the Flyers tonight.  They made some stupid mistakes — a couple of unnecessary penalties that cost them goals, and a really dumb move by Cechmanek coming 40 feet out of his net to take a Sens breakaway one on one.  But they didn’t the deserve the booing that their [...]

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