Monday, April 01, 2002

The Meaning of Life If I ever hit my stride with this web site design stuff, you'll see a switch to some content that I believe is relevant to far too many employees today - namely, where is the meaning in what I do all day every day? Many people truly do hang their dreams in their cars as they park at their workplaces each morning. They retrieve those dreams upon returning to the car late in the day - exhausted - too tired at night to do anything but continue dreaming. Life and work don't have to be this way, but apparently the phenomenon is worldwide. Take a minute and read this review: Trying to Fake It in a World Where Work Is Unfulfilling. Laurent Cantet's moody portrait of an unemployed businessman silently suffering in the anxious limbo between jobs is a gloomy meditation on what many of us mean today when we talk about work. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies] 6:18:06 PM     Comments[]

3 Questions about Radio (and thanks!) What is the best way to add a search capability to my weblog? I have 16 categories set up. Why don't I have properly named folders for 15 of them(excluding 'home') on my local PC? I still see 'myFriends' - 'leadingIt' - 'myInterests' and 'careerHelp.' I should be seeing some other names. Can I rename them at the operating system level? [Dane took a stab at answering this one some weeks ago, but I'm not sure I "got it."] Why does my news aggregator repeat certain stories long after they've been deleted multiple times each day? 5:23:17 PM     Comments[]

Who remembers MicroAge? They're back! We were there during the "glory years." In fact, one of those years, MicroAge was #1 for the year on the NASDAQ. Well, they are trying a comeback. I like what I know of their new strategy. This one will be worth watching in the coming 12 to 24 months! 5:11:24 PM     Comments[]

Remember Alta Vista? High Profile Challenge to Google. A development team will roll out a souped-up search engine called Teoma that will take dead aim at Google. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] We'll see. 4:35:09 PM     Comments[]

Here's a good idea! Forbes is doing something that may become a big hit. "This column will be a gathering place for unconventional ideas for products and services . . . Help us write future columns. Please send us your own Why Not ideas, and tell us what's right or wrong with the proposals we have above. Go to www.forbes.com/whynot. 11:55:49 AM     Comments[]

Apple & IBM Why doesn't some type of joint strategy between these two make some sense? NO - not like IBM swallowing Lotus and Lotus disappearing. What I have in mind leverages the obvious strengths to create a bona fide alternative to Wintel PC's: APPLE: great industrial design new-found Unix operating system in OSX small enough to do some entrepreneurial things cool-factor is high IBM: financial strength new-found focus on Linux provides PowerPC chips to Apple now has the power to lead a Unix/Linux to the desktop initiative 10:06:42 AM     Comments[]

Government Subsidy for Broadband - I think NOT! The broadband industry's lobbyists are hammering politicians for subsidies to the broadband buildout. Consumers are saying, "show me the content; what will I get for my $40 to $50 per month?" Anyone running a Windows PC knows the answer. To keep that copy of Windows running and to keep your antivirus software up to date, broadband has become almost essential. I suggest we get Microsoft to prepay the telecoms for the bandwidth required to keep a "PC in every bedroom" running! 9:44:36 AM     Comments[]

Air Taxi Eclipse Aviation is in the news again. Stewart Alsop has written about the company in the April 1, 2002 issue of Fortune. Rich Karlgaard has also covered the story for Forbes' April 15, 2002 issue. This is process-thinking at its best. "The way we've always done it" doesn't have to be the way we do it in the future. If you haven't read James Fallows' book called Free Flight, that's where you'll get the details. Eclipse may truly be onto something. For those of you who remember the "early days" at Lotus, Symantec, Microsoft and others, the people behind Eclipse are Vern Raburn and Dottie Hall. They were involved in early marketing efforts at each of these places (and others). Put this one on your radar screens. First flight? This summer. 9:34:50 AM     Comments[]

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