Outside the Herd

Let’s see. We’re going to build a system to monitor all Internet traffic coming in and out of the country. Hmm… The only other country to do this well is this communist, authoritarian regime over in the East. Hmm… Our democratically inclined, freedom-loving population might mistake this for some dystopian, Orwellian, Stepford-like scheme for the [...]

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Great parody of BP as they try to contain a coffee spill. Really sad that this is referring to an actual event. And probably played out this way.

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Funny. With slacker, facebook, my blog, twitter, linked in, etc. all connected I can say the dumbest thing now and it gets sprayed across the internet in 50 locations. The other day I closed my car trunk and Plaxo got updated.

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The other day I was watching some young kids get all excited about getting their first email accounts. “YOU CAN ADD PICTURES AND SEND THEM!” or “LOOK IF I RESPOND IT SORTS THE MESSAGES INTO CONVERSATIONS. COOL!” or “WOW THAT WAS REALLY FAST!”. And I was thinking that was really cute how they get all [...]

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The headline is obviously me being funny on a couple fronts. I don’t think it would be news to many people that Microsoft is no longer innovating – at least not outside of developer tools. I was just reading an article on cio.com Windows 7: The Five Most Talked-About Features. It was informative on a couple of [...]

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Being mainstream is helpful in a lot areas. Being social, the clothes you wear, picking a plumber or a new camera, buying a car – wisdom of the crowds tends to pay off. In a lot of the things that are important to me however, it’s a lot better to move outside the herd. Investing, [...]

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