An interesting post from the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Bertrand Serlet recalled to his home planet Well it’s a sad day for all of us here in Cupertino. Bertrand Serlet, the friendly cyborg from the future who has lived among us and helped guide our software development efforts with such skill, has been recalled […]
CNet in the UK picked Vista as one of its ‘Top Ten Terrible Tech Products‘ — and the products on this list stretch back many years: Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor’s reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced […]
I could spend a lot of time talking about all the things wrong with the BCS football system — the death of traditional bowls, the constant changes and tweaks to the ranking algorithm, and the usually arbitrary and frequently unfair (if not insane) bowl matchups — but let’s let a professional sportswriter take it on: […]
Second post today about the SIV mess. To sum up what has happened so far, HSBC (one of the largest UK banks) has decided to move some of its funky SIVs onto the balance sheets in an attempt to build investor confidence. In response, Citigroup, who has many times more exposure to this garbage than […]
Recessions are interesting things, the most interesting part of which is just how the world financial powers have been able to avoid any significant ones for quite some time. The minor one just after September 11th, 2001 was avoided by the central banks opening up the flood gates and swamping the economies with easy money. […]
Freighters with sails — or, in this case, one very large sail that flies like a kite: A kite the size of a football field will provide most of the power for a German heavy freight ship set to launch in December. The Beluga shipping company that owns the 460-foot Beluga said it expects the […]
[UPDATED 11/27/07: Here’s an article from the CNN/Money web site that is raising the same issue: given current supply and inventory levels, there’s not much justification for oil approaching $100/bbl.] No, I’m not talking about whether or not the Peak Oil phenomenon exists, even though the Wall Street Journal seems to have jumped on the […]
Dave over at Ace of Spades HQ has the (in)famous “WKRP in Cincinnatti” Thanksgiving Day videos. I’d embed them here, but Ace of Spades deserve the credit for tracking down the two key segments; be sure to watch them both. And Happy Black Friday! ..bruce w..
A significant portion of the traffic to this website comes from people searching for computer wallpaper (particularly involving winter, sunsets, and winter sunsets). To that end, I’ve created a separate page (see the page bar above) where I’m posting all the wallpaper versions of certain photographs I’ve shot. I’ve also started posting new wallpaper over […]
DC: the house of cards starts to crumble
I lived in Washington DC — yes, right in the District itself — for just under six years (1989-2005). To say that DC is bipolar and disfunctional doesn’t begin to capture the true weirdness of how the city runs (or fails to). This is a city with one of the highest per-student spending rates in […]
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