Monthly Archives: October 2009

My comment on a Google Reader shared item in Jan 2009: “As I said months and months ago – “jiska koi nahin uska Android”. No product line to convince MS to license you WinMo? There’s Android. No cash to pay … Continue reading →

Congressman and two-time Presidential candidate Ron Paul on TIME’s ’10 Questions’: Why do you oppose the income tax? Because I have a right to the fruits of my labor, and government does not. If you concede the principle of the … Continue reading →

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will soon test a bizarre theory: A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I asked if any Nobel Peace Prize awardee had turned down the prize. A Wall Street Journal article has the answer: The committee’s most-controversial prize was probably the 1973 selection of U.S. Secretary of State Henry … Continue reading →

Gruber, again: There seems to be widespread consensus that Windows 7 has to be a hit because Microsoft needs it to be a hit. I wonder how much this assumption has colored the reviews.

Nina Sankovitch is reading one book a day for one year. Today she is on Day 350. By necessity she mostly sticks to books 250 to 300 pages or fewer — Thomas Pynchon’s paranoid primer “The Crying of Lot 49,” … Continue reading →

Arnold. Whoa. The ‘follower count’ is the number of politicos who follow that user. More Republicans than Democrats there. (via the New York Times).

John Gruber of Daring Fireball: Here’s the thing. I didn’t read his (William Safire’s) op-ed column because I agreed with him; I read it because I didn’t agree with him. Though I seldom agreed with his politics (and when I … Continue reading →

Because your shareholders think you’re chicken when you’re being sane: What boosts a firm’s stock price, and the boss’s standing, is a rapid expansion in revenues and market share. Privately, he may harbor reservations about a particular business line, such … Continue reading →

One that doesn’t require a large, imposing building – or any building at all: My friend Rony and I were speculating about a true “distributed hotel” that would rent out your apartment when you’re gone, handling keys, cleaning, payment, maintenance, … Continue reading →