Cloudy Thinking

I recently abandoned the Microsoft OneNote application after about 18 months. Since I had purchased it with $100 of my hard earned money, you may be interested to know why OneNote is NoMore on my system.

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Dave Burnstein [daveb@dslprime.com] writes the informative (FREE) DSL Prime email newsletter. Send him an email with “subscribe” in the subject. Here’s what the “round fellow with a beard” (as he calls himself) has to say about VDSL2+.

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This article by Andrew Orlowski of The Register talks about about Adobe (nee Macromedia) acquiring Mobile Innovation (MI), an outfit that designs smart phones and mobile user interfaces.

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This photograph (from the Cassini orbiter) of Dione, a satellite of Saturn, is stunningly beautiful. It makes me feel humble, and in awe. If you are on a broadband connection, click here.

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This “Money for Nothing” article by Philip Giraldi appears in The American Conservative. It’s depressing, but you need to read it so you can grasp the level of incompetence (or hubris?) that allowed this malfeasance to occur. Unbelievable.

Wrap your mind around this article from Light Reading. SBC (it would appear) plans to offer IPTV service bundles to enterprise customers. This is news because IPTV is generally thought of as a residential service.

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I’ve been disappointed with how often I am forced to wait (and wait) for Bloglines to respond recently. It’s my favorite newsreader (or “aggregator” if you prefer). I love it, and so far it remains FREE. But Bloglines seems very sloooow these days.

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You’ll enjoy this fun article in Esquire Magazine by A. J. Jacobs. Briefly, he hired two people in India to help him, one for his work, one for personal stuff. It’s an experiment to test out the ideas in Friedman’s “The World is Flat” book about why outsourcing is inevitable so get over it,

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LinuxDevices reports that Kristian Kielhofner has jammed the Asterisk open source PBX software onto a Gumstix tiny (80mm x 20mm x 6.3mm) computer that uses an Intel XScale processor.

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This will be my last avian flu note for today (it’s time to go to bed). You are hereby directed, by the powers invested in me, to view this snippet of the Daily Show about the deadly avian flu pandemic. Here’s the MP3 version.

You can’t read everything about avian flu, but this Economist piece is excellent. The article has pointers to sveral high quality bird flu sites. I agree, I’ve been talking about avian flu and the H5N1 virus a lot. If it mutates and human to human transmission happens, our world will likely be changed so dramatically as to be unrecognizable.

This biotech stock blog has a good summary of avian flu facts.

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