Posts from October 2003

Got FoO is the coolest weblog design I have seen!...

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The Economist : How good is Google? "Craig Pisaris-Henderson...reckons that Google's operating margins on sites other than its own must be much worse than FindWhat.com's (23%) or Overture's (12%) because it has been wooing advertisers away from Overture by being more generous to webmasters."...

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New York Times article today about Microsoft pursueing a buyout of Google. If I had $50 billion I would try to invest in Google too. If the deal goes through I wonder what will happen to Linux within Google. Dump your vi, we are a Visual Studio company now!...

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Does Your Code Think In Ink? If so, Microsoft and PC Magazine might pay you $15,000 or other prizes....

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Westinghouse has a new alarm clock coming out in mid-November. You can set it based on your calendar information, it runs on Windows CE .Net. $500 was the best price I found though. It would have been a lot easier for Microsoft to start with a SPOT alarm clock instead of a watch. I need a new alarm clock!...

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Logitech has a sweet new webcam with a built-in mic and automatic face-tracking technology. I want one, but then again I never use the QuickCam Express I have now....

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I really like the work of William Adolphe Bouguereau. Good lighting, expressions, and realism....

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I just downloaded the new Napster software. I search for "acoustic" yields 132 results. One of the things I like about iTunes, and what I end up buying, is the tracks I usually do not find on an album. I like the live, exclusive, and acoustic tracks in good quality formats. So far Napster has not come through with anything other than the standard album fare. I still have my 5 free downloads, so I will try out the full process....

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Peter Lewis of Fortune reviews Office 2003, comparing it to the car market. I am still waiting on my new Office 2003 Professional packages to arrive. "[T]he fact is that, for the vast majority of humans on the planet, Office 2003 does not qualify for ?must have? status. There are dozens if not hundreds of improvements, but with a few exceptions ? mainly of interest to large corporations with thousands of employees ? they fall into the nicer cupholder, satellite radio, and optional navigation system category."...

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The DaVinci Institute lists their top 10 inventions in money technology....

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