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Puget Pounding 2006

Photos from last weeks storm that hit the Puget Sound area. Last Thursday night, the Puget Sound area was hit with one of the worst storms in over 30 years. With wind gusts over 90 miles per hour, over 1 million customers lost electrical power. Some customers will not have

21 Dec 2006

Apple

Review: Windows Vista

For the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Windows Vista, trying to prove in his video that “Microsoft did not steal ideas from Mac OS X.” [Dec 15, 2006]

21 Dec 2006
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

Apple

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

One the best speeches I have ever read, heard, or viewed regarding life work and the importance of doing what you love. For the full text of the speech, click Continue reading below. Enjoy! This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and

13 Dec 2006

Apple

How to run Windows and Mac apps side-by-side with Parallels

The Parallels beta includes a new feature, called Coherence, that hides the Windows desktop and allows you to run Windows apps in their own windows on your Mac desktop. The result is that you can intermingle all your Mac and Windows apps on the same desktop. I know what you’

13 Dec 2006

Apple

‘iTunes sales are fine’ – Apple speaks against silly claims

Apple has broken its usual silence to slam well-publicised claims that iTunes sales are losing momentum; claims made by Forrester Resarch analyst, Josh Bernoff. Bernoff’s claims, which emerge just weeks after Microsoft’s launch of its Zune device, prompted Apple to issue an official rebuke read more | digg story

13 Dec 2006

Media Technology

Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead

Few people know the music industry better than Peter Jenner. Pink Floyd’s first manager. Jenner has also looked after T.Rex, The Clash, Ian Dury, Disposable Heroes and Billy Bragg – who he manages today. He’s also secretary general of the International Music Managers Forum. And he doesn’t

13 Dec 2006

Apple

Apple marketshare up 31%, browsershare up 45%…Everything Looking Up

Apple’s marketshare and browsershare have been marching upwards over the last several years, and this is no exception, a strong indication of Apple’s strength as a brand as its turning around of its historically very niche and marginal portion of the market read more | digg story

11 Dec 2006

Business Excellence

The Best (and Worst) Corporate Leaders of 2006

The best took their companies to new heights and made investors proud. The worst? Well, check out the BusinessWeek rogues’ gallery. I love the photo of Michael O’Leary the Ryanair CEO. It’s like a bad Dell ad… read more | digg story

11 Dec 2006

Gadgets

Awesome!! An Italian city with no sun!

This tiny Italian city in the Alps gets no sun all winter due to the surrounding mountains. So they decided to solve the problem! Human ingenuity at its best! read more | digg story

11 Dec 2006

Media Technology

Why Aggregation & Context and Not (Necessarily) Content are King in Entertainment

Rafat Ali from PaidContent.org quotes Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang’s report on, Long Tail, but focuses on what he calls the mid part of the content and distribution value chain, where he sees the most value in the long run…that mid part is the part of aggregation-and-context

28 Nov 2006

Gadgets

Is TV Dead?

An article by Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch.com explores the death of broadcast (linear) TV.  Some research indicates that online video watchers watch less TV, well duh. The key tipping point will be when a startup is able to distribute proper television content over the Internet legally. People will

28 Nov 2006

Business Excellence

In Praise of Radical Transparency

One of the issues that every company faces is how much information to share with customers and employees. At work, there is a constant battle between disclosure of raw and immediate information and processing or summarizing information to ensure it accurate and will be understood. Over at The Longtail blog,

28 Nov 2006
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The Reckoning by Ryan Petty

The Reckoning by Ryan Petty

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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