January 2008
6 posts
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Know who he is? Well you should. He’s the “Arabian Warren Buffett” (per Time magazine), a member of the Saudi Royal Family, and worth $29.5B. He also happens to be the largest single investor of Citigroup, one of the largest US financial firms. Foreign investment into US companies was formerly ill received. Here are some examples.. Remember the Unocal dilemma a couple years...
A thought on the Mac AirBook
I’m going to laugh at all of the fanboys who get pissed in 3 months when they re-release it for $300 cheaper. — livejamie Maybe they’ll get a $300 Apple Store credit. ’Cause, you know, that’s the same thing as a refund.
I think the hardest thing about breaking up is...
— juliaallison I think it’s only ever a failure if you learned nothing from it. There is no such thing as a setback.
help!
For my peace of mind, I need to block access to a certain website. (I think you can guess which one.) I tried Leechblock and have found it to be completely useless. By “useless” I mean it does not seem to work. At all. Does anyone have better suggestions?? — juliaallison In Windows XP, edit C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Add the following lines: 127.0.0.1 example.com...
December 2007
5 posts
When The Nerds Take Over
Definitely something worth thinking about. I’ve been thinking about this off and on for a while. Tom Peters and Hugh MacLeod, among others, no doubt, have written about similar ideas (“Brand You” and “Global Microbrand,” respectively). —— I was just emailing my friend Rjyan, attempting to express my cloudy feelings about where the world is going, and...
A Jakob Lodwick-Jacob Lodwick Mashup
First, he quotes duplo talking to dalas, who says: “[Tumblr is] similar to other social networking/blogging type sits but by taking away comments and making it so that no one else can view your friends and followers it sort of takes away the elements of those sorts of sites that cater to people’s vanity and desire to be popular. instead it’s just a neat way to share things you think are...
Flashforward
Comment boxes aren’t the problem. “Any old jerk” is the problem. Yes, most YouTube and MySpace comments suck. I had a private blog in the past where only authorized people could see and comment, and it was fine/fun for the years that it lasted. The comments showing up on the same page only improved the value of the posts and the experience as a whole. ...
Why I Don't Like Tumblr "Commenting"
The notion that it’s better to have tumblr “comments” as entries in your own tumblog seems ridiculous to me. To proponents of this perspective, why do you think all the people following my RSS feed should be forced to care about a comment I make to some random Tumblr post? If I read, say, a certain economics blog on a regular basis, I don’t want to see a comment that...