Category: Computer
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Beggars
Three beggars were begging in the Silicon Valley. The first one wrote “beg” on his broken steel cup and he received ten bucks after one day. The second one wrote “beg.com” on his cup and after one day he received hundreds of thousand dollars. Someone even wanted to take him to NASDAQ. The third one…
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Safari 4 beta
The new version of Safari works fine now that the Glims plugin has been updated, but they somehow broke the accesskey functionality where control+key would activate the anchor. Hope they plan on turning that back on before it comes out of beta.
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Unixtime milestone
Per Michiel Ross: Number aficionados, you probably already know what happens today. As of 6:31:30PM ET this afternoon it will officially be 1234567890 Unix time, which started at zero and has been counting seconds since the stroke of midnight on January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.via email from Michael Cannon, Fri, 13 Feb 2009…
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How time flys
I’ve had a GMail account since 10-Nov-2004 when you could get one by invitation only (Gmail launched 1-Apr-2004), and my friend Hale-on-Earth invited me to get an account. And the product is still in beta 4 years, 2 months, and 25 days later.
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How’s your market cap?
God forbid David Letterman should have another heart attack. But if he does, maybe Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy could stand in for him.Speaking earlier this week to a group of investors at the Merrill Lynch computer technology conference in New York, McNealy killed with his Lettermanesque “Top 10 Signs a Company’s Market Cap Is…
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Billy’s Letters
Dear Mr. Dvorak:Ann Landers wouldn’t print this. I have nowhere else to turn. I have to get the word out. Warn other parents. I must be rambling on. Let me try and explain. It’s about my son, Billy. He’s always been a good, normal ten year old boy. Well, last spring we sat down after…