Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Info Week's take on business in Second Life
A somewhat pessimistic view from Information Week on the results so far of business investments in creating a presence in Second Life. One line that stood out for me was: The design simulations are kludgy and represent the ultimate exercise in pointless boredom for users who want to indulge their ultimate fantasies, not decide between…
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Are patents only a stick?
Ralph picked up the news release UGS did today the ‘record number of patents’ issued in 2006. He concludes with a statement about patents only being useful in cases where there is some other disagreement between companies (specifically in the form of a law suit), where they can be used as negotiation chips. While I…
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Let's hope the EC sees it the same way
Siemens deal for UGS gets U.S. antitrust approval
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You are (at most) three degrees from the Governator
If you are reading this, you are at most 3 degrees of separation from Arnold Schwarzenegger, current governor of Califronia. The first degree is me. I am assuming that if you read my blog you ‘know’ me so that counts. The rest of the connection works like this: Before we moved to the farm last…
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My next phone?
I have been very happy for the past year with my T-mobile MDA (aka HTC Wizard). However I saw the new line of phones from i-Mate on the Engadget site and I’m thinking this one might be an interesting upgrade when available sometime this summer. I hope T-mobile carries it. Engadget
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The things you hear at Walmart
My family and I went to Walmart on Sunday to pick up a few groceries we had forgotten at our trip to the “real” store the day before. We’ve had a rash of bad weather around Cincinnati the last few days and on Sunday everyone was gearing up for it. So it wasn’t much of…
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My superbowl celebration
Since I was in China last week, the Superbowl was aired live Monday morning local time. A bunch of ‘the Americans’ got together in one of the hotel rooms and cycled through the 40 channels on the cable system trying to find a broadcast. Eventually we found it on ESPN (which I thought was odd…
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Universal keyboard layout?
This one is gonna be short as I am typing it from a publicly accesible iMac in the Air France lounge at the Paris airport. Let me apologize now for any mis-spellings as either the French or Apple or both hqve decided that the keyboard layout the rest of the world uses is insufficient in…
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Good times in Hong Kong
Left Tokyo on Saturday morning after a relatively calm Friday evening consisting of dinner at a Shabu-Shabu restaurant near the hotel and an early bed time. Took a Cathay Pacfic flight into HK that arrive around noon local time. Immigration and customs wasn’t a big hassle (that was saved for later when we went to…