9. March, 2002 - That Just Ain't Right!
- So here it is the first half of March, and I'm watching thunderstorms out my window. With a couple inches of freezing rain. It's Minnesota, during the tournaments. We're supposed to be getting feet of snow, instead of many inches of water. I wonder if there's something to that global warming stuff after all.... Then again, about 2am, it did turn to snow. So there's a nice layer of ice laid down, and now we'll get the snow on top of it. I guess that doesn't seem too wrong.
- Y'know the other day, when I got the Russian e-Card that neither I nor the babelfish could completely figure out? Someone's been googling the translation of it. I wonder if it's my secret admirer, or just someone looking for another occurance of the card. I'm also the number one hit for
Rose Fashion Optical on google. Maybe I can get some free glasses from them?
- Wal-Mart Trumps Moore's Law. Productivity in the US has been going up recently not because of computers, but because Wal-Mart's
everyday low prices
have spurred their suppliers and competitors to work harder to keep up. Today's economic reality is that high-tech decisions made in Arkansas play a larger role in boosting America's productivity than decisions made in Silicon Valley or Seattle.
[some guy]
- How Osama bin Laden got away. A longish story from the Christian Science Monitor. It sure sounds like someone slacked off. [daypop]
- Cultlike Mac followers are touchy over criticism. The touchiness seems to hit harder when the criticism is true. Thankfully, most of my readers are pretty reasonable and understand that when I gripe about the Mac, it's because I like and use the damned thing every day. [some guy]
- Microsoft, Who Let the Bugs Out?, via Cryptogram
- Skip namby-pamby Enterprise and instead watch Alias Neat comparison of these two shows from the Samizdata. [Reed]
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Last updated on Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:41:55.