University education and social mobility
Will Hutton debunks "The American Prosperity Myth" and contrasts the loan-funded American economy with those of prosperous and "welfare generous" European countries. The article has a lot of unpleasant...
View ArticleOpen Source Software panel title
Copenhagen Business School is organizing an IFIP 8.6 conference in October. IFIP 8.6 deals with diffusion and adoption of technologies and is said to be one of the more practical minded information...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Interview with Sterling Ball, the boss of music string maker Ernie Ball. After a nasty incident with BSA, he switched his whole business to run anything-but-Microsoft (on aproximately 80...
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Longhorn preview review
Via Scoble: Longhorn preview article by Paul Thurott of WinSuperSite.com. Man, this is cool stuff. Gotta start saving for that new laptop I will have to buy some time in 2005 to run Longhorn. It's a...
View ArticleDoctor slang
Interesting article about (medical) doctor slang in BBC News. Apparently doctors scribble acronyms in patients' journals as a code to themselves and other doctors that the patients won't understand...
View ArticleOnline document search reveals secrets
Microsoft Word (and many other document editing applications) store caches of text that are not shown when the document is edited in the application itself, but which are stored in the document when it...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
This is a two-part posting of a single quote. You see, I like the punchline so much I'll put it first:"The personal computer software market is Microsoft."[Joel Spolsky, August 1, 2003] And now here's...
View ArticleShocking report on Linux on the desktop (round two)
David Weinberger (of Cluetrain Manifesto fame) experiments with Linux on the desktop:"Another day, another linuxOk, I'm up and running in Mandrake, using kde as my desktop. So far so good... The only...
View ArticleYes, Microsoft should continue the development of Internet Explorer
Robert Scoble (who works at Microsoft in a developer relations function) feels that Microsoft can't justify further development of Internet Explorer to make it a better browser."[...] there's the rub....
View ArticleThe future according to Larry Ellison
Interesting little article: Larry Ellison's take on the future of the applications market."According to Ellison, there are four types of technology company right now: companies with products based on a...
View ArticleWho is an open source developer
Scoble on the ground level Linux developers and their motivations now that Linux is gaining momentum as a platform for big companies to build on:"I talked with another long-time Linux supporter last...
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Fighting the bull in business
Funny publicity gag from Deloitte Consulting: Bullfighter, a Windows application that warns you about "bull" in the texts you write in MS Word or PowerPoint. Words and phrases such as the following are...
View ArticleAn evangelist's view of installed base as competition
Robert Scoble, who works for Microsoft as an evangelist for the coming operating system currently codenamed Longhorn is asked how he is going to relate to the installed base of millions of users of...
View ArticleLinux vs. Apple in poor communities
Update to the earlier post on Apple vs. Linux: In an email, Phil Wolff reminds me that Linux is likely to gain market share in poor communities too.Makes sense. My colleague Ram tells me that India is...
View ArticleApple is truly becoming a niche product
Paul Boutin in Slate:"In the latest of his legendary keynote stage shows, Steve Jobs kicked off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this morning in San Francisco by showing off the company's speedy...
View ArticleThe Microsoft Evangelist's prayer
Via Scoble (an actual Microsoft evangilist) comes this prayer by Kenneth Tan:"Our father, who art in Redmond Microsoft be thy name Thy monopoly come, thy will be done throughout the earth as it is in...
View ArticleECIS presentation done
Ram and I did our presentation in style, despite several technical problems with the conference venue's equipment. The projector kept turning off during my part of the talk, and I kept on talking.A...
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Sneak peaks at ECIS 2003 in Naples
The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2003) that I will be attending next week takes place in Naples, Italy. The organizing university is the Università di Napoli Federico II.According...
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Regnecentralen
Once upon a time, there was a great Danish technology company called Regnecentralen (which translates into Calculation Central). They made computers, aerospace products and a bunch of other things, and...
View ArticleConfidential patient information leaked from a psychiatrist's PC
Lots of computer vira have the nasty effect of emailing themselves to people in your list of email addresses, and a family among these vira (I forget what they're called) accompany these emails with...
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