Where Horses come from
Read Sandy’s post about excellent investigative expose about the creation of horses in today’s modern world. Make sure you read it by this Friday.
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Unpatched IE Flaw exploits in the wild
If you’re using Internet Explorer, or are forced to use it at work, you should seriously consider switching browsers until Microsoft deems it time to release a patch to the latest Internet Explorer security hole. This one is pretty serious as it does not require any action on the user’s part beyond visiting a compromised
Blogging and Organizations
Via Network-Centric Advocacy, I had a small “aha” moment, from a piece they linked to on AlterNet, Blogging While Black. To me, it resonates with why many communications folks within an organization don’t know what to make of blogging. Being the Communications Director somewhere means your supposed to be crafting , filtering, and controlling the
High Demand for US World Cup Soccer
Via the Sports Economist, found a link to this article in the Wall Street Journal about the high demand for World Cup tickets for the USA [subscribers only]. I can’t read the article, but its safe to assume its a mainstream journalist just catching wind of the difficulties those of us who want to follow
RIAA/MPAA are just middle men
A revelation hopefully more artists and creative professionals will come to is neatly summed up in this post from Powazek. We’ll only see more of them come to the same conclusions as they learn to fully harness the distribution models provided by the Internet. Singers, Writers, Artists and all no longer need middlemen to market
Fun Saturday night
Bizarre. My self-signed SSL certificate I use to access my email using IMAP over SLL expired last week. The real significance is that we’ve been on this server for one year now. Compared to how painful working on the old Redhat 7.2 install we had back then, working with a Debian system has been a
Inequality Debate
One of my favorit bloggers from Cafe Hayek is having a “back-and-forth on inequality” at the Wall Street Journal Econoblog. Is the “growing” inqueality really a problem or threat to our society. I’m not convinced, and I think its usually misused as an umbrella for other societal problems (ie inequality of opportunity, which is different).
New TiVo pricing plan
A common resason I hear for not getting a Tivo is a reluctance to pay a monthly fee for little more than the electronic TV guide. Never mind that your cable company also charges you a monthly fee for your DVR, or that the generic DVRs have a horrible user interface and don’t have wonderful
Olympic TV ratings
NBC’s Olympic ratings in the US just made the guarantee to sponsors. An analysis of the ratings is posted at the Sports Economist “Olympic TV Ratings in the US“ I’m posting this here for future refrence as it’d be interesting to compare the Olympic’s ratings with those for the World Cup this summer. I don’t
Motley Fool on TiVo
The Motley Fool has a good feature looking at the outlook for TiVo from both a bullish and bearish perspective. I still have hope for TiVo, I know Sandy and Greg were impressed a bit when I pulled up my music collection to stream to my living room. In the next few years, I think