First off, I totally had this idea a long time ago, except for in my brain this wasn’t a bicycle bell it was a car horn. But I guess if you’re in Japan a bell works just fine. I love how everyone just moves aside, even the ones who notice that he’s not actually on [...]

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on stage at once? All technical snobbery aside, I just don’t see Bill faring well up there, they are at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of charisma and presence. Steve is all good posture and strong voice and Gates is all, umming and wild gesticulation. And with [...]

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So Ballmer is talking about tightening the screws on the pirates to squeeze more money out of BRIC. But wallstreet is saying that Brazil/Russia/India/China is so 2006 and they’ve moved onto the new frontier with countries like Vietnam and Qatar. To bad Microsoft can’t admit that nobody’s buying Vista because there’s not much in the [...]

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I ran across this article that was a pretty nice collection and interpretation of articles on microsoft’s release of vista. It is, to me, startling to see the variety of media outlets that are ragging on Vista - I suppose I knew it already, but collected in one place it’s pretty interesting.
One theme that I, [...]

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