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The big man on campus when I visited SA back in October 2008.
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Was that a seed?
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Here’s Alana stealing grandpa’s grapes while he was getting kimo.
This is Alana looking like she swallowed a seed.
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Rethinking Energy
The first time I heard or T. Boone Pickens I was living in Japan. Mr. Pickens bought a large share of a Japanese auto parts maker called Dentsu. Dentsu and T. Boone didn’t get along. Honestly I didn’t know what to think of the guy.
I still don’t so I say this with some hesitation and with the caveat that I don’t understand his motives quite yet…. but his plan makes sense.
I am curious to see what he does next and willing to give it a chance.
First look: OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta a big step forward
The new version of OpenOffice.org was a long time coming, but it brings a solid batch of new features and file compatibility. Ars Technica looks at some of the most significant enhancements to see if they stack up.
Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing
A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow.
Clearwire, ICO Pair Up For Mobile-Video Trial
Mobile-broadband Internet provider Clearwire (remember Craig McCaw?) and satellite-communications company ICO Global Communications announced a joint agreement to develop mobile-video trials, beginning in early 2008 in Raleigh NC and in Las Vegas NV. Satellite and WiMax!!??
Fujitsu to Spin Off Two Divisions
Fujitsu announced it has decided to spin off its shared technology and design divisions and convert them, as of October 1, 2007, into two newly established corporations, Fujitsu Advanced Technologies Limited and Fujitsu Design Limited. Fujitsu is making its broad operational expertise and experience available to customers through the provision of business process outsourcing (BPO) services. Now, in conjunction with this approach, Fujitsu is separating into independent subsidiaries its shared technology and design divisions.
Open Source @ Work
My take on how Open Source has progressed at an enterprise level in the workplace. I’m asking at LinkedIn, but I do have some thought that I want to blog about:
- OS: First things first; the OS–Linux has been around for a while, but if you told your boss that you wanted to run the company DB or web site or what ever using Linux 10 years ago, you would have been thought of as a Open Source hippie. Although there may have been no complete though process around this, the
- Web Apps: You would think at this point that DB would follow. In the IT mind set, OS is base, then the DB then applications. But this is where
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Digg – No More HDMI Cables: Wireless HDMI On the Way
No More HDMI Cables: Wireless HDMI On the Way
Amimon showed us its WHDI (Wireless High Definition Interface) working perfectly at last January’s CES and today the company is shipping that chipset to manufacturers of TVs, projectors and other consumer electronics products. The chipset enables uncompressed 720p and 1080i video to be transmitted over the 5GHz wireless band
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Facebook Receives NPR Podcast Player
…again trying to reach out further an further… or maybe they just have an open network that let’s you do it!!!
.... footprints .... 