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From the Archives · 2003
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Online photo sites -- no redundancy, no backup -- and no business....
Is this any way to run a business? A major online photo site -- PhotoChannel -- goes down, taking down many of the its photo processor clients with it, including WalMart? Walmart?…
Thought of the day
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups"
No more spam!
Well, it took a while, but I have a spamless life. My setup is now rather unbelievable; mail to me goes to a domain forwarder, which sends it to a mailbox. A Linux system beside…
My dad was a cool guy .....
"Daddy, do we have a firewall?"
So asked my 8-year-old when he woke up this morning. "Yes" "Good"
Helping kids remember...
I'm off to do my keynote for the US Department of Defense tomorrow. I just found this little clip -- my Dad just before he died, with a short news story about a program in which…
My weblog is one year old today
Check the calendar over on the right, and have a peek at Oct/26/02
Apple's sense of humor
Apple announced iTunes for Windows today (everyone knows that) but you might not have seen what they did with their home page. [ bigger image ] A reference to the fact that many…
Nomadic workers....
It's Small Business Week. Here's an interesting stat spotted in the New Zealand Herald-Tribune today: "A recent survey undertaken by Home Business New Zealand, in association with…
The lengths they'll go to.....
Spammers and net-con-artists try to get more sophisticated all the time. I received this message today : From: "Richard Glicksman" Date: Wed, 15, Oct 2003 09:06:44 -0700 To…
Another broken music service
Much fanfare announcing Puretracks today, a Canadian service that offers tunes for sale. I won't sign up. Why? You can only listen to tunes through Windows Media Player, which of…
I'm digitizing my life .....
Well, at least all the photos. For the last two weeks, I've scanned about 2,000 old photos using an HP photoscanner. These photos are added to the 7,000 digital photos I've taken…
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