Cloudy Thinking

A few of my readers have been commenting recently at Cloudy Thinking. Thank you!

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Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, April 17, 2006 talks about F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content. He says:

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According to Richard Waters of The Financial Times, Larry Ellison of Oracle is thinking about acquiring a major Linux distribution, and thus going head to head with Bill Gates of Microsoft.

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Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post has written a negative review of the Nokia 770 internet tablet. I asked a friend who owns (and likes) the Nokia 770 to comment:

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David Sifry of Technorati has posted his quarterly State of the Blogosphere message. The stats on blog growth (cancer?) are mind-boggling.

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Our two-day yard sale is winding down. We offloaded more than ten years of accumulated stuff. (My wife would say “junk,” but beauty is in the eye of each beholder.)

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William Arkin has a thoughtful (but dense…) article in The Washington Post: Despite Denials, U.S. Plans for Iran War.

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My friend Peter Macaulay is up and running with “live” WiMAX. He reports radio link latency for WiMAX is 20 ms with 1500/256 kbps at 2.5 miles. That’s higher latency than his DSL (12 ms) and cable modems (5 ms).

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The US military is starting to rumble. Several retired general officers who are safe from retaliation have spoken out, the latest being Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste.

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PhysOrg reports a potential breakthrough flat light source made from OLEDs.

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My IT folks replaced my defective ThinkPad T42 keyboard today, so my “7″ key works again. While it was being replaced, I heard troubling data about the much worse quality we see with IBM ThinkPads since Lenovo took over.

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VMware’s The Console is an “exec blog” where their senior people post. The blog is a good source for information and news about virtualization.