Cloudy Thinking

Sandra Blakslee writes in The New York Times about research that suggests a large asteroid hit the earth about 4,800 years ago.

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David Maister says he has pretty much stopped reading (books, magazines, newspapers). How about you?

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Windows PowerShell is a free download from Microsoft. It’s pretty cool stuff. (If PowerShell is good enough for MySpace, it may be good enough for YOU!)

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Jonathan Fildes writes at BBC News about wireless power, a new way to recharge laptops, mobile phones etc. without using wires.

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This evening I upgraded Google Desktop. On a whim I clicked on “Index Status.”

Google Desktop claims my IBM T42 laptop has 86,143 files and 145,462 emails. No wonder it’s hard to find stuff.

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Rebecca Blood writes glowingly about 1491, a book by Charles C. Mann.

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January W. Payne writes in The Washington Post about internet addiction. Wow. Or maybe that shoud be spelled “WoW” (World of Warcraft).

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Phil Wolff writes about the TalkPlus service in Skype Journal.

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Gina Smith’s book (she collaborated with Wozniak) iWOZ Computer Geek to Cult Icon is out, and is getting good reviews.

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Spiegel Online interviewed Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations

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Adam Pasick of Reuters reports that IBM is making a big push into virtual world environments such as Second Life.

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The replacement of Donald Rumsfeld by Robert Gates is a needed first step toward rethinking Iraq War II. But it is not enough.

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