Month: April 2005
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Strength
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard Byrd
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Hello, my name is Jeem
Over the weekend, I took in the BBC’s “The Kumars At No. 42”–a hilarious sitcom/talk-show hybrid featuring an extended Indian family that has immigrated to London. To help pay the bills, these fictional Kumars, incongruously, host a chat show from a television studio they’ve bolted onto their modest home in Wembley. Real guest stars appear…
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Gateway drugs
I was reading the CTO Connection in Infoworld on 29 March 2005 where the Chad Dickerson said, “Some call the iPod the ‘gateway drug’ to the OS X platform.” What a great reference. The only other company that comes to mind that has that kind of marketing clout in my mind is Harley Davidson. I…
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Extremism
Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.Clint Eastwood, Time, 28 February 2005
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Homeland Security Self-Examination
by Ray LesserHomeland Security is the job of all patriotic Americans. Although the FBI, CIA and hundreds of other government agencies are spending millions of man-hours and billions of tax dollars trying their best to root out terrorism, Americans are still in danger. It is impossible for the Homeland Security Department to interrogate every single…
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Why was this man CEO?
I know what I don’t know. To this day, I don’t know technology, and I don’t know finance or accounting.Bernie Ebbers, former WorldCom CEO, testifying in his trial for fraud that he had no konwledge of illegal accounting practices at the company.Just another perfect example of another case of: The “A” students work for the…