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Archive for May, 2006

Global Warming

Posted by pallid on May 27th, 2006

A show that I really want to catch is An Inconvenient Truth, about global warming. The trailer has me sold (watch it here on YouTube). Any trailer that makes global warming look like a thriller is definitely a must-watch in my books - and this is in spite of the blatant americanism of the movie. […]

More Y! than I want to handle…

Posted by pallid on May 24th, 2006

I’ve always wanted to mention this… I both love Yahoo! and hate Yahoo! at the same time now. The picture below will tell you why…

You see, I was upgrading Konfabulator… oh I mean Yahoo! Widgets… and if you haven’t noticed, they’ve added the convenient option of choosing Yahoo! toolbar and Yahoo! central, and making Yahoo! […]

Firefox 2.0 vs. IE 7

Posted by pallid on May 24th, 2006

I’m using the latest version of Firefox’s 2.0 Alpha 1 release (i.e. pre-beta = unstable and buggy), and in fact I’m writing this post in Firefox 2.0a1 (codenamed Bon Echo) right now. I’ll list down a few of the changes and improvements that I’ve already noticed with this release, and I must say it’s way […]

Social Network Gold Rush

Posted by pallid on May 23rd, 2006

A post by Om Malik GigaOM : ยป Too Many Social Networks? echoes what I’m thinking right now, and links to the Business Week article that I’ve linked to before - there are too many social networks.
In addition to that, I can’t quite grasp the business model behind social networks yet. Advertising is definitely […]

HP - An exercise in extremes

Posted by pallid on May 19th, 2006

I just love big companies - This article about HP doing the opposite of outsourcing caught my eye because this subject came up a few weeks ago with several HP people independently from each other. I just love the exercise in extremes - apparently Carly was “offshore everything!”, but the new CIO that was brought […]