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Stuff

Someone pop it…please

Is this a joke? Today there’s a funding bubble but there’s not as much of a liquidity bubble. The only reason I didn’t throw my laptop across the room is the speaker of this brilliant quip had a nice smile when he said it. I had to assume he said this tongue-in-cheek. Kind of, “Let’s pull […]

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Technology Web

Is Firefox the next IE?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just posted a story at ScriptTeaser about a weblog post whereby the writer rants and rails (not the Ruby kind) against IE7. I find myself in the rather unusual position of responding in defense of this much maligned browser. For all that there are rants against IE and Microsoft’s use of […]

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Weblogging

AOL Screws the pooch

I have to agree with the Herd on this one: AOL screwed the pooch by releasing its actual search results. Even if the data is ‘anonymized’ (is that a new Web 2.0 word?), it shows a betrayal of confidentiality that’s going to end up costing the company big time. AOL is trying to paint itself […]

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Web

Happy B’Day Web!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday was the World Wide Web’s 15th birthday! It’s amazing when you consider how much the web is a part of our lives now. When I read the news, I immediately searched in Flickr for a CC licensed photo of a birthday cake–to honor the web in the most appropriate interconnectivitly […]

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Weather

Come on, let’s change the weather

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s so hot today, even the sun is sweating. Hot, humid, ucky air, ew. I don’t known about anyone else, but I hate August. I do, I really hate August. I thought that since there are so many of us webloggers, since we outnumber the stars in the heavens and the grains […]