Terry Jones

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What the right hand giveth the left hand shall taketh away

Friday, December 1st, 2006 Posted under companies. | Comments Off on What the right hand giveth the left hand shall taketh away

I was surprised after reading about Google lending YouTube $15M to get them through the month before they closed the deal that there wasn’t more of a fuss. If YouTube were ... Read more..

Finishing Proust

Friday, December 1st, 2006 Posted under books. | 9 Comments »

I finished reading In Search of Lost Time early last (Northern hemisphere) summer. It took me six months, reading an average of 20 to 25 pages a day. Russell took ... Read more..

$HOME/Desktop/.. — what were you doing in there anyway?

Friday, December 1st, 2006 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on $HOME/Desktop/.. — what were you doing in there anyway?

Over on the Python Dev mailing list, discussion has been raging about home directories, hidden dotfiles, user interface, etc. See this recent posting for the latest in a debate that ... Read more..

steak and eggs

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 Posted under books. | 3 Comments »

Here’s a nice paragraph from Illywhacker (Book 3, ch 59, p572 in my paperback faber & faber edition): I sat in my chair and watched the hessianed goanna dropped into the ... Read more..

pooTube

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted under companies, other. | 2 Comments »

Speaking of anal sex, I went to see if pooTube.com was taken. It is, and it leads to youTube. I thought it would be the perfect domain for an anal ... Read more..

fainting for cash

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted under other. | Comments Off on fainting for cash

If I were in the business of making horror movies, I think I’d probably pay people to faint in early showings. This article describes a series of people being overcome ... Read more..

undoing the YouTube deal

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted under companies, tech. | Comments Off on undoing the YouTube deal

There’s yet more dirt on the Google / YouTube deal. I’ve thought several times already that I wouldn’t be surprised if the deal didn’t close. I don’t remember when it’s ... Read more..

english cut

Thursday, October 26th, 2006 Posted under other. | Comments Off on english cut

And you thought buying a shirt was just a matter of walking into a store and picking something out off the shelves? Not at English Cut. Read more..

iraq spam

Thursday, October 26th, 2006 Posted under politics. | Comments Off on iraq spam

How to tell when the public mood has changed on an issue? The subject of your spam mail might be a good indicator. Spammers are constantly testing the collective mood, ... Read more..

getting away with it

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on getting away with it

This brief article discusses how thieves stole account details from two online brokerages using keystroke loggers. By some broad definition this falls into the category of “identity theft”, since the ... Read more..

station-wagon full of tapes

Friday, October 20th, 2006 Posted under tech. | 1 Comment »

Cringley writes about Sun’s new black box portable server farms: The beauty of a shipping container data center isn’t just that it operates stand-alone and can be plunked down in the ... Read more..

code, launch, sell

Friday, October 20th, 2006 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on code, launch, sell

I guess this guy really didn’t want to get into management. He spends 2.5 years working on a product, launches it, and simultaneously offers it for sale. Or he just ... Read more..

transporter

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on transporter

Here’s a nice-looking box. Pricey though. They just got acquired by Logitech. Memo to self: Make something people want. Read more..

real tax, virtual payment

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on real tax, virtual payment

Here’s more on politicians thinking about imposing real-world tax on purely in-game profits. I love the comment from the person who says they’ll be happy to pay real dollars for tax ... Read more..

reuters second life

Monday, October 16th, 2006 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on reuters second life

Reuters sets up shop inside an online game. Read more..

utube

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted under companies. | Comments Off on utube

From here: So, while you think enviously about the $1.65 billion YouTube snagged from Google (or, as someone pointed out, approximately $3 million per day of their existence), you can feel ... Read more..

business plan haiku

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted under companies. | Comments Off on business plan haiku

From this article: I had the pleasure of moderating the presenters at the Stirr mixer last night (see also ValleyWag coverage). I like these gatherings, mostly because the pitches are very brief: Entrepreneurs ... Read more..

plug & play II

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on plug & play II

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illywhacker

Thursday, October 12th, 2006 Posted under books. | Comments Off on illywhacker

I’ve had Peter Carey’s Illywhacker high on my to-read list for a couple of years, following a glowing recommendation from Bambi. I started it two days ago and…… it’s great. To ... Read more..

get your 50% productivity gain here

Thursday, October 12th, 2006 Posted under companies, tech. | Comments Off on get your 50% productivity gain here

Apple-funded study reveals that $1999 Apple 30″ displays result in up to 50% productivity gains*. Hurry while stocks last. * On certain tasks, such as mouse move and click. Read more..