Year: 2005

  • 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.

  • Misery

    The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.George Bernard Shaw

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Serenity

    When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.Tao Te Ching