Author Archives: Ray
Nokia give the N-Gage another go
Image source: nytimes.com New York Times reported that Nokia is priming a relaunch of the N-Gage after two failed attempts at providing a portable phone and gaming platform. Following two attempts to market the N-Gage in 2003 and 2004, Nokia … Continue reading
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How do you spend your work day?
Two nice work office related new items hit recently about what people who at work when their not working. The first one tries to estimate the cost of playing fantasy football during the work day. Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc … Continue reading
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Battle of the Social Networking Sites: Facebook Versus MySpace
Image source: flickr I’ve recently been poking around in Facebook fairly frequently. It helps that I got a handful of invites, as friends migrated from MySpace to Facebook, and used the email addressbook suckers to contact me. Noah recently posted … Continue reading
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My Pilgrimage to the Prelinger Library
I’ve been back from San Francisco for a couple of days, and I want to go straight back as soon as I can. I finally got a chance to see the Prelinger Library, about a year after I had learned … Continue reading
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The Bourne Redundancy
Image source: amazon.com Currently, a campaign for the new book in the Jason Bourne series is plastered on many of New York’s subways. The timing of course coincides with the latest movie of the third novel starring Matt Damon. As … Continue reading
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Carrier growing pains
I’m back from San Francisco and ready to post. More posts will be coming, but here on my two cents on AT&T’s censoring of anti-Bush lyrics during a webcast of a Pearl Jam performance that they hosted. AT&T shifted blame … Continue reading
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Day 3
I’m on Day 3 of a trip to San Francisco for work. I haven’t been in downtown San Francisco in almost ten years. I’ll write more very soon, but here is a tidbit to keep the blog posts flowing. It … Continue reading
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Blink of an eye
Image source: heroswiki I love this study that NBC did, looking to see if people remember anything about the commercials they skim over then they fast forward them using their DVR. They used vests with sensors to record physiological data … Continue reading
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Breaking news in 2005: Google buys dark fiber, builds data center, to create its own Internet
Image source: John Hoffmann’s Weblog I’m back from a short trip to the beach, only to return to a massive thunder storms which lead to an extra long commute due to flooding and the sweet smell of raw sewage in … Continue reading
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Keys to the Kingdom
Although I didn’t invent this correlation, I am highly amused with the idea that the number of keys someone carries is a function on his or her power. People who lack power own few or no keys. Extremely powerful people … Continue reading
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