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 Thursday, March 21, 2002
Drivel: I usually don't even bother looking at spam, but this one was good. How would you like to have Kim Jong Il, Osama Bin Laden, or Saddam Hussein clean your toilet? The "Art Brush Company" of Washington DC is selling "Axis of Evil" toilet brushes, or so they claim. The picture is hilarious, but the email is extremely dangerous. The domain the email sent me to is being run out of Beijing, China, not Washington DC, according to a "whois" search. On the page I went to, the asked for all of your contact information and a credit card. The page was not secure. This is an ideal setup to have your identity stolen. Even though I didn't enter any information, they now have my IP address and other information about my computer and ISP. Using just this information, they can target my ISP for an attack or try to hack my computer in order to search for financial information on my hard drives. This is serious stuff. 11:19:19 PM 
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Drivel: Mr. Li's comments about entering the Chinese market are very interesting. What he says about big American names in China is even more interesting. He is right. If they have a presence in China, they are loosing money. I know that Accenture has been doing research in preparation for entering China for the past four months. In true Accenture fashion, they will probably miss the boat and come in late to the game to clean up the mess other companies made just to create another mess themselves.
Second Act for Hong Kong Billionaire. After rising farther, and falling faster, than perhaps any Internet executive in Asia, Richard Li has adopted a new vocabulary that stresses responsibility, patience, even a dash of humility. By Mark Landler. [New York Times: Business] 10:38:06 AM
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Drivel: This is nuts. I wonder how much a Gateway cow box will be worth in twenty years?
A Mac Box Worth Weight in Gold. An original Macintosh computer is now considered worthless. But the box it came in? It goes for hundreds of dollars on eBay. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 10:25:52 AM
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Drivel: Keynote has always rubbed me the wrong way; for a number of reasons. The write up from IDG is another example. First, they have never been a software development company. They have always offered their products as services. They service their customers poorly. The data they collect has been wholely unreliable at times due to fundamental limitations of their service to take into account surrounding network conditions. This is the reason we built a competing product at Gomez called the Gomez Performance Network (GPN). The GPN remains Keynote's largest competitor next to Mercury Interactive. This is kind of abstract stuff, but it helps people offer better services over the Internet by measuring the time it take to deliver the service.
Keynote improves Web monitoring services [IDG InfoWorld] 10:21:12 AM
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