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Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic

Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logicFinally, The man gets a taste of his own chocolateThis has been one heck of a delightful tale, finally The Bill himself goes through the same hell the Windows users have to face every time that dreaded Update Icon enters the fray.Now let's see...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Channel management, Operating systems, Strategy, Now Let, Bible Story, Babel, Bill Gates, idiotic logic, web experience, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Photos: Tower of Babel crumples with new tech

Photos: Tower of Babel crumples with new techI've seen that before!In "The Last Starfighter", the bad guys had the red monocule . . .

Tags: Babel, photograph

Discussion threads 2005-10-27

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ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government

Let the in-fighting begin!How long before it is subverted for political/ideolical purposes like the U.N. has been subverted?(not to say the U.S. hasn't)A bit of naiveness involvedIt stands to reason that, when governments are involved, that there will be political and ideological squabbles on any decision.The EU as a "unified"...

Tags: Government, Corporate governance, INTERNET, Vertical industries, U.S. Government, ICANN

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor

Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investorThe global economy is upon us.Isn't it great that other countries have money to spend nowadays?One World / One Government / One CorporationWell, this is nothing new. The "One World Utopian Ideal" has been going on since the Tower of Babel. ...

Tags: investor, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

Europe gets its own GPL

Europe now has its own version of the GPL. It's got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept. The European Union Public License is an effort by EU government services to codify a Euro-centric view of copyleft,...

Tags: GPL, OSI, License, European Union Public License, EUPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-20

GPSBabel 1.3.6 (Mac)

GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, or even a serial upload or download to a GPS unit such as those from Garmin and Magellan. By flatting the Tower of Babel that the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Robert Lipe, GPSBabel, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-31

Google Translate for iPhone has lots of potential

Google recently launched a new translation tool for iPhone that turns your device into a free plus data costs and very good pocket translator. That got me thinking though -- Google has the technology, and ability to make this application far better than any other pocket translator, and a...

Tags: apple iphone, google inc., speech recognition, emerging technologies, garett rogers

Blog posts 2008-08-09

Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic

Analyzing IT program management failures with the perfect vision of hindsight often leads the observer through a senseless and convoluted maze of past decisions. Studying the Byzantine and idiotic logic behind many IT failures, one wonders, "How did we get here from there?" Bill Gates experienced this Tower of Babel...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows Update, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., MovieMaker, Zoliblog, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-25

A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's value

I screwed up yesterday. I wrote from memory rather than checking out the history of Symphony and Open Office. What happened next reinforced my original point, but also demonstrated what a sea change the Internet has made, and continues to make, in how we...

Tags: Wikipedia, OpenOffice, Wiki, Internet, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-06

China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?

China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?FUD?While Chinese owned companies (and being Communist, the government owns those companies) has been responsible for some things, no doubts there as the pet food and tooth paste can confirm, shouldn't a proper distinction be confirmed before empty blaming?How do we know the guilty hackers aren't...

Tags: Hacking, INTERNET, blackout

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the vote

OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the voteIt's capitalism, all right!A capital offense against mankind.And all the sheep bleat happily as they line up to be sheared.This is fantastic newsThis means that the man on the street can sponsor Penelope and Rupert's riches through their...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, OOXML, ISO, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+week

OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+weekYour headline says much. ODF vs OOXMLAnd as usual the "press" Mary Jo would like others to see it that way when in fact it is not. Folks, its just another standard that offers users CHOICE in what they use. Nothing more, nothing less.The only reason the...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), No_Ax, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Mary Jo

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Nokia dismisses Google Android threat at its peril

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Sometimes, you have to laugh.(Picture from Juan Cole, who was writing about someone else at the time.) Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, "Olli-mandias" and CEO of Nokia, sneeringly dismisses Google's Android effort with a figurative...

Tags: Google Inc., Nokia Corp., Handset, Apple Inc., Motorola Inc., Olli-mandias, Open Handset Alliance, Linux, Cellular Phones, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.

Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.www.craigslist.com has been my freecycle.com for years. NT.RE: Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.Obviously you're unaware of all the problems with The Freecycle Network TFN. You might find the following articles helpful.http://tiny.cc/zNafihttp://tiny.cc/20jxihttp://tiny.cc/1wDXO http://tiny.cc/9nN6m TFN is still...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, Yahoo Groups, Freecycle Network, http://tiny.cc/1wDXO http://tiny.cc/9nN6m TFN

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Specialty formats burn EMR market

Specialty formats burn EMR marketDon't worry... the solution is in the works. New equipment won't put out human-readable results; it will only be accessible via EMR transfers. Thus, paper won't work any more.As for the Tower of Babel effect, it's headed the same way office documents are: Microsoft's...

Tags: Quality, EHR Project Failure, EMR, CCHIT

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

What else did Evans survey say?

What else did Evans survey say?Asking the choir for a responseDoes Bill Gates worry about a Penguin? - no because the overwhelming majority of computer users don't know it's related to Linux.So you think we'll have more Linux desktops even without the hardware sales - how? Every geek that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, survey, Linux, Apache Software Foundation, O-O

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Microsoft Search 2.0: New tabs on tap

The LiveSide.net guys have posted screen shots of what looks like the new version of Live Search that Microsoft is set to unfurl on September 26. There are a few changes between the old and new search interfaces: The addition of new Video and MSN search tabs;...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlement

Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlementExtension of Penalties is UnavoidableThe idea that all of attorney general Gonzales' problems and his recent resignation are related to getting Slade Gorton, long time Microsoft supporter, into the Attorney Generals office where he can further Brad Chase's goal of further corruption of the...

Tags: IT Still, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2007-08-31

SOA will fold into general enterprise architecture, Linthicum tells Open Group crowd

While enterprise architects EAs and services oriented architecture SOA architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few years."In five years I don't think there will be SOA ... it's all going to fold back into...

Tags: Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-07-23

The 'isms' of the Desktop/Browser war and why the web community should engage the desktop more

The 'isms' of the Desktop/Browser war and why the web community should engage the desktop moreReligions of RIAI agree that the web community needs to interact with the desktop more. I don't see the browser replacing applications, so much as applications being extended from the desktop.For these web-based applications to...

Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Web browser, Application Streaming, Web

Discussion threads 2007-06-20