Topics on businesses, good and bad.
Wow. The Happy Meal is so good that even mold will turn up its nose at it. Do we really eat this stuff? And pay for the “privilege”? If you have doubts that this could be real, put them to rest — it’s got a big brother that’s approaching puberty. Or has already hit it, …
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“Service pack-free OS life support switched off as few mourn passing”. And good riddance to bad rubbish. Too bad they’ll have to keep supporting Vista SP1 and SP2 for a while longer.
Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) had an interesting post the other day, on restructuring the government as an insurance agency. He makes a compelling case of it, too. He admits that it could never happen, but as he says at the end, it’s “interesting to think about.”
I’m not sure why, I think it’s perfectly fair, myself.
I haven’t seen the new ads that this piece mentions,* but I can attest to the (lack of) quality of Domino’s Pizza in the Newport News, Virginia, area in the eighties. We called it “cheese on cardboard,” and it lived up to the name. I’ll have to try the new recipe and see just how …
How do you find good software? Industry veteran John Dvorak (no relation to the keyboard layout of the same name 😉 ) says you can’t, barring personal recommendations from other users. There are too many scammers out there. I’m sorry to say that I have to agree. I haven’t gone looking for much software by …
Wow… there’s been some debate over whether Google’s response to the whole Chinese hacking episode is just posturing, but more recent news seems to suggest that they’re seriously pissed at the Chinese government. And now comes the news that they’ve added code to show users when an account is accessed from an unexpected geographical area …
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A good article, and one that will (to quote my sainted grandmother) “scare the pee-water right out” of anyone responsible for corporate-level security. But the main reason I wanted to mention it was for the excuse to put the amusing phrase “your panties in a bunch” into a blog title. 😉
GoddessJ and I recently visited an Ikea store to get some furniture for our new house. As always, my attention was drawn to the fake computers and TVs they have in their display rooms. You’ll be as sad as I to learn that one of the manufacturers of such props (I think it’s the one …
Very intriguing. Unfortunately it sounds too good to be true, so it probably isn’t.