John Dvorak is this tech columnist who usually spends his time writing idiotic articles about how Apple is doomed, or Microsoft needs to throw away XP and Vista and go back to Windows 2000, or the future of computers is obviously wearable smart machines shaped like underpants. Great for getting the hits up on his [...]
Archive for September, 2006
Cardless
A couple evenings ago I got a call from Citibank about my credit card. “Did you use your card today to buy $9,000 worth of gear from this American computer sales website?” Um, no. Someone made a 2-cent charge and followed that up with two $4,500 purchases. The “tiny purchase to make sure the card [...]
Fighting terror
This is a nice thing to read. I’m ordering the book titled Three Cups of Tea, reviewed in this CSM piece: A gift for an entire village. It’s by a guy who failed to summit K2, got lost in the Karakoram (kind of a bad place to do that), got saved by villagers, and went [...]
Prince born; harms economy
An interesting article in Fortune titled “Oh boy: Prince imperils Japan’s economy.” (Or maybe it’s “Why Japan needed a female heir to the throne,” if you go by the title in the .html doc.) There’s been no shortage of articles claiming the opposite—saying that this new imperial baby will pump an additional ¥150 billion into [...]
