Day: November 20, 2003
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Let’s pretend
Agency director is furious because his PC failed during an important presentation – and takes it out on pilot fish, who races in to repair it. Ignoring fish’s questions, director snarls, "Just fix it!" Fish spots the problem – the director had bumped the monitor’s power switch while changing floppy disks – and turns the…
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Check your calendar in November 2007
Dana Gross, chief marketing officer, M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd., Fremont, CA predicts: "Expect a terabyte of data storage in a cellular phone by 2007. This will be achieved through continued advancements in flash silicon and multilevel cell technology."Sounds pretty nice, but I still don’t have a flying car! I think I will follow-up in…
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How not to recover
The Twelve Steps of How Not to RecoverThese are the steps we took, which are suggested as a Program of Misery:We admitted we were powerless over nothing, that we could manage our lives perfectly, and those of anyone who would allow us to.We came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves, and the…
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Golden Rules for Living
If you open it, close it.If you turn it on, turn it off.If you unlock it, lock it up.If you break it, admit it.If you can’t fix it, call in someone who can.If you borrow it, return it.If you value it, take care of it.If you make a mess, clean it up.If you move it,…
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One bitten twice shy?
The following item appeared in my email this morning in the InformationWeek Daily email broadcast:"If I go out now and hit a ball off of the fairway in any fashion or form, I will not go after it." Roy Williamson, who was bitten twice by a rattlesnake when he tried to retrieve his ball from…