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Friday, November 22, 2002
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Culture could beat corp. in this one. Sure
its a long-shot, but everyone loves an undermouse. 
6:29:17 PM
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ROTD Runner-up: "OPENMICROSOFT.ORG"
ROTD Grand Prize: "MICROSOFT-WILL-TAKE-YOUR-MONEY-AND-EAT-YOUR-BRAIN.COM"
DOTD: "GODHATESMICROSOFT.COM"
[sidebar...only 2,408 more IP-offending ms-domains to be deleted  ]
5:36:08 PM
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Weblogging run amuck? Try "Dumb run amok". None of the
interesting bits of my life are indexable and I'm not about to strap a Fear
Factor-style camera to my head in an attempt to make it so. Eeesh. Sounds
like a fun project to be working on, but I seriously doubt that their real
goals are as described. Even Gates doesn't have that much hubris.
4:53:40 PM
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....and I'm glad he
did.
12:35:04 PM
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"Do as I say, not as I do" says Lego in
this Wired piece. While its perfectly acceptable for a corporation to
abuse the intellectual property of a culture, its completely another thing
when the culture "abuses" the
corporation's intellectual property. I'll never figure some of these
things out. I wonder what RIAA would have said if Fanning had stated that he
would "continue to welcome viewpoints from both sides of the argument" and
would be receptive to reasonable requests from RIAA regarding Napster's use
of their intellectual property. I can't wait for the first lawyerly person
to tell me I'm off-base because "its a different situation".
12:07:51 PM
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Brett notes that it might be a good idea for the next ICANN CEO to come from the technical (well, he said "developer") community. But that's where the outgoing one came from. I'd like to see the next one come from the CEO community. Understanding how the Internet works is but one requirement for the new CEO to fulfill. Understanding how organisations get things done is another. Understanding how to get organisations to get things done is, arguably, the most important.
11:01:44 AM
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Is this why
technology is less
than easy to use nowadays? I didn't realize that the "coolness" of the
internals was what drove adoption and sales. On the other hand, it may just
be that "Cool" is synonym for "functional, reliable, etc." in developer
circles.
7:59:28 AM
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Counterpoint: "We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case
of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages
over a new one; it is established and it is understood." - C. C. Colton
7:59:26 AM
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Point: "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time
is the greatest innovator." - Sir Francis Bacon
7:59:21 AM
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