Friday, February 8, 2002

AMERICA - Fifty percent online. More than half of American households and more than half of all Americans are now connected to the Internet, according to a Commerce Department study. 11:03:55 PM    Discuss

U.S. patent number 6315213, filed on November 13, is described as a method of modifying weather and should concern the public. 10:50:55 PM    Discuss

Billy Pooper points to the perfect gift for any Andersen accountant: The Website Shredder. 7:06:19 PM    Discuss

Frontline: "You will be able to watch "American Porn" here starting noon on Friday (Feb. 8, 2002). It will be permanently available for viewing here in QuickTime and Real" Friday already evening here in Amsterdam..... 5:42:06 PM    Discuss

Like any move, our server migration and upgrade has brought joy and tears. Although everything went smoothly on this end of things, there is always a period of a few days while DNS is propagating that sucks. It may even look like things are broken and no one is visiting your site. As I said before we started the migration..."If you feel sick to your stomach at any time during the ride, just stare at the floor for a few moments and it will all go away in seconds..." [based on a childhood memory of an amusement park ride] Sometime during the weekend most everyone will be switched over. (yep, tempting Murphy again) 4:51:21 PM    Discuss

Some guy in San Jose has invented a machine that compresses TV shows by just enough to add yet another :30 second ad, reducing the bait/hook ratio of an evening's Potato Time from 22/8 to 21.5/8.5. And get this: he's sold about a hundred of these things at $93k apiece. I love the language: "said that he doesn't understand the problem.. subtly tricks viewers...isn't nearly as bad as..." [Skywave] 9:21:11 AM    Discuss

MCI Chief Says He Repaid Debt, Borrowing From His Company. Bernard J. Ebbers, the president and C.E.O. of WorldCom, said that he had paid off his margin loans by borrowing more than $250 million from the company he runs. [The New York Times: Technology] 8:49:28 AM    Discuss

Goodmorning, Fridays feel the same all over the world.... Big production meetig about the Radio show in HillyWood today. I hope to concemtrate a lot on the first show, so we can establish ourselves quickly :) Now I'm gonna flip over here for the subtitles.. 8:26:16 AM    Discuss

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