http://www.sdtimes.com/opinions/guestview_113.htm
A little insight into why Microsoft can have some of the best programmers yet end up so maligned.
Category: links
This phone is wild
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,62356,00.html
The decline of the brand
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/brands.html?tw=wn_tophead_8
Wired takes a look at branding and the lack of consumer loyalty.
Man tries to convert lions to Christianity
http://www.local6.com/news/3887764/detail.html
He’s still alive.
AlJazeera transcript of Bin Laden video
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm
Some say it’s more accurate than other transcripts.
Red Sox win World Series
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/sports/baseball/28REDSOX-WIRE.html?oref=login
Baseball seems weird now.
SGI and NASA create world’s fastest computer
http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2004/october/worlds_fastest.html
The system contains only 10,246 processors.
Lunar eclipse tonight
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aSPpGPu7gACg&refer=us
Last one until 2007.
Every fall, the zombie soccer players emerge from hiding
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/041015/ids_photos_ts/r1549424839.jpg&e=1&ncid=1756
And every four years, one runs for president.
Digital photograph databases are the work of the devil
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/2004/10/21/679546-cp.html
Ontario farmer refuses license photograph.
Neal Stephenson answers 12 questions for Slashdot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1518217
He describes three epic battles between himself and William Gibson.
The Redsox beat the Yankees
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1098310214434&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
Completing the ultimate come-back dream, it almost makes for an anti-climactic World Series.