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Check out this post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): ** "Among the methods featured in the document to help ease the situation and control the crowd, is an outline of a mock conversation where AT&T store manager...
Read more →A friend of mine has been experiencing debilitating back pain for a year now. He’s seen pain specialists, surgeons and so on, and so far the only treatment has been pain medications, strong ones. He is desperate. He recently came across an advertisement for treatment with a device called the DRX 900...
Read more →I’ve been doing quite a bit of traveling lately and have been experimenting with those noise cancelling headphones. Actually I couldn’t convince myself to spend $350 on the Bose headphones who, by reputation anyway, set the standard. I spent about $50 on a pair of Sony noise canceling headphones (at...
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I just returned from a very brief visit to Madrid (4 days) and came back enamored of the city. Madrid is beautiful and vibrant, always busy with people that seem to be having constant good time. People seem to be eating constantly and yet no one is fat 🙂 And the weather is fine! It seems (see AP photo to the left) that I didn’t experience everything that was going on this weekend though 🙂
A funny article in the New York Times the other day: **“[…snap] I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose appears to be to remind me that I’ve l...
Read more →This is an explanation (part 1 of 2) of why and who should seek VC for their new business. From what I know of the way the world is and works, I generally agree with his article. Heres a bit from the this post in [blog.pmarca.com](http://blog.pm...
Read more →Today a major review came out in Robin Good’s influential Master New Media blog. It’s great to see this kind of detailed information about the work we are doing over at BlogBridge. Thanks Robin and Michael! Here is what they say: > “The ...
Read more →Jeremy Wagstaff, in his regular “Loose Wires” column tells some truth about icons in software: > “One day, probably quite soon, people are going to look at the little icon in their software program that denotes “save” and say,...
Read more →Recently I visited Curaçao to participate in the celebration of the 275th anniversary of the building of the Snoa. This is from an [article ...
Read more →I follow Chris Pirillo’s blog and other writings religiously. Two recent, contrasting posts really caught my eye because I think they reflect the popular bias against software. That is, people are glad to pay a lot for hardware gadgets at the same time as they feel reall...
Read more →Regular readers of this blog know about AllOfMp3.com, a Russian music site that sells music of all kinds for a ridiculously low price. It’s kind of like the iTunes or EMusic store, but at a fraction of the pri...
Read more →You might find find this interesting and/or useful. WebsiteGrader does an SEO analysis of your site and gives you ideas on how to make it better. According to their site: “Website Grader is a software tool to help measure the marketing effectiveness of a website.”
Hey Stern fans, can you believe what kind of a day it was today? What a soap opera, but riveting. I heard it in bits and pieces as I was driving between meetings today, and I was waiting either for Artie to quit or for Howard to fire him. And then [I read now on the Stern web site that indeed Arti...
Read more →Here’s an email I received recently. How many different languages do you count? > “Danki pa e artíkulo d Sam. Mi a haña un email di dje siman pasá kaminda ela kontami ku pronto e artíkulo lo sali i ku e lo manda mi e link. Maar jij was veel sneller. Avery a gusta e artikel hopi (mi tambe trouwens). Lo mi skibi Sam. He is a good writer. Trouwens su mama a muri in the meantime (ela skibimi). Chag Sameach (Shavuot)”
PC Magazine’s newest issue has a retrospective of their past 25 years and LotusImprov gets mentioned for one of the big deals of 1993. And yes, you can see a bad picture of yours truly back in those days. > “Innovators: Pito Salas // Set ...
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I’ve been de-friending one person after another on Twitter. Why? Because many of them are A-listers who ‘generously ‘accepted my friendship and are now spamming me via Twitter with their latest exploits. Dull. As I said in a previous post, this “Friends 2.0” phenomenon isn’t doing it for me. My advice for Twitter users: only ‘friend’ people who you really know and at some weird level care whether they are having a ham sandwich.
You know that I follow what’s going on in Venezuela. Here’s an interesting article from the Washington Post about the latest developments: > “For years defenders of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have harped on...
Read more →You’ve seen and heard of Twitter, haven’t you? If not, congratulations for being immune to the latest Fad 2.0. Other than the occasional “I just had a delicious hamburger”, many if not most of my tweets are an announcement (read traffic bait) of one thing or another, usually including a link. Why would I subscribe to that? Maybe I have the wrong kind of friends. I think if your twitter friends are really people who are actual friends (Friends 1.0) and not quote friends unquote (Friends 2.0) then you might actually care about them having a delicious hamburger. But do you know that actually has 350 friends (1.0?)
Check out this post from Boing Boing: ** David Pescovitz**: Physicians are now removing appendixes by entering the body through the mouth. The procedure, called Natural Orifice Tran...
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