Year: 2005
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Put a Tiger in your tank
My copy of OS X Tiger (10.4) arrived yesterday afternoon from Apple. The installation went very smoothly; except for having to re-establish my Wi-Fi connection. So far I’ve only done the install, and played with Spotlight and looked at the updates to Safari, but it appears to be another winner from the Apple stable.
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Guess the Google
Guess the Google: very attractive game, even if it’s near-impossible to guess the word right. Thanks to Amit Gupta.MP3 downloads from Amazon Worth reading: Are you in a race to the top? Or…?Click “What dog are you” in the lower right. [The Dr. is an Irish Setter]Ramayana cartoonGood Experience newsletter, 26 April 2005
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Outsourcing
Success with outsourcing mirrors that in the divorce rate; that is, one in five deals end within a year, and 50% of all deals end in five years.Ken Landis, Deloitte Consulting
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Spring fever
As is predictable, the marathon weekend brought our first good weather. Spring has come to Boston.This means six weeks of unpredictable weather with rain, just a chance of snow or frost and the annual Pothole Filling Frenzies and Muddle Puddle festivals.As they say on the Radio:“We can look forward to a 30% chance of 60…
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Really?
There’s a big difference between making one tiny transistor and connecting a billion of them together to do a useful function.Gordon Moore, co-founder and chair emeritus of Intel, explaining why he is skeptical of the promises claimed for nanotechnology. Infoworld 18 April 2005