So the fighting stops in Iraq for a day. The news says that this is a good thing; I believe them and then John Robb has the completely opposite take on events. Thing is; I believe him more than the news…
“Sadrs plan was defensive and not offensive. However, the militias were starting to take too much territory and expose themselves to airstrikes. This is an attempt to get them back into a defensive crouch.”
Are we really to believe that the biggest worry that China have in all this is that the value of the medals will be devalued? Really? Seriously? That’s the biggest threat that we have over them.
“China’s big party may be a damp squib. Beyond that, it risks foreign governments leading a sporting boycott, devaluing all those medals its athletes will win.”
Tibet and the Beijing Olympics | A sporting chance | Economist.com
There are a number of articles like this around at the moment…
FolderShare vs. Dropbox – GigaOM
I’ve been a Foldershare user for years, on the whole it’s been very good except when they had “server issues”.
However, the new version is awful. The old version listed the synced directories, the number of files they contained and how they were synced. In a single page you could see the complete status.
Now Microsoft has got their developers on the case. It looks prettier but the summary view has gone. This simple change makes it much harder to use. At least they were sensible enough to keep the Mac version.
Should you film a once in a lifetime experience or just experience it…
The Space-Shuttle Quandary – Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog
Probably both. Set up the camera before with a timer to shoot every couple of seconds and then forget about it. Of course, it could film the wrong thing but who cares? You could loose the camera on the way home anyway!!!
From Scoble…
“What is his goal? To beat CNET.
But does a great business or movement EVER get built on top of a goal like that?”
Mike Arrington’s dream team has wrong goal « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
Correct me if I’m wrong but Nike for years had the slogan of “be number one”. They just aimed for the number one in each market and went out to beat them.
And while I’m thinking about it. Isn’t that what Microsoft did for years? And didn’t Scoble work for them?
I’m confused!
In 1983 I went into a new room in my comprehensive school in England and sat at a BBC computer for the first time.
It looked exactly like this…
BBC Micro creators reunion tonight at London Science Museum – Boing Boing
Same machine, same screen (a cub) and the same dust!!!
It’s like looking back in time.
“It was as important to him as it was to them to underscore the horror and futility of it. More than anything, he was appalled that he had been made to fire on people he didn’t know and to whom he, too, was a stranger. These were fathers of children. He had no quarrel with them. C’est complètement idiot la guerre. His Italian Alpine regiment had once stopped firing for three weeks on the Austrians, whose language many of them spoke; they had swapped loaves of bread for tobacco and taken pictures of each other. To the end of his life, Mr Ponticelli showed no interest in labelling anyone his enemy. He said he did not understand why on earth he, or they, had been fighting.”Lazare Ponticelli | Economist.com
“American’s are starting to ask: for all of this investment, how do I benefit? How does it help me put food on the table, heat my home, or send my kids to college?” John Robb’s Weblog: The Cost of War debate
For most of my life American foreign policy has claimed that Europeans are “soft”. They didn’t have massive armies, refused to support American actions overseas and spent all their time negotiating.
Now the rules have changed for the last superpower will they become more “European”?
Of course, European in this context is the wrong label; Japan, China, Russia, Brazil and many others all act this way. Will the US have to do the same?
This is an enormous bit of news. Steve Gillmor will talk about it for the next 9 months; “Microsoft is dead, again!”
Seriously this means that I’ll spend even more time in Google’s applications.
Just noticed…
This site now has a Google Page Rank of 1/10!!! Only nine to go!