… still in China:
Nice touch: After being for three days in the local Fedex facility, it just missed, well: the Fedex Cutoff …
For seven years I had this phone number. It was the companies one. Which seemed to be easy and straight forward: Better than dragging two phones around, and most of my calls are business related. Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch:
Changing the phone number over in my name was easy enough. But an international calling plan I can only get after seven months. Which is ridicolous. Nothing short of it. In this case its Cingular, but I would guess all Telcos are the same mind numbing kafkaesk systems. As long things work they are just stupid and expensive. But if you leave the beaten path of the 90% majority then you will get very random service at best.
some play till they drop
only the first 40% make sense to me. And there is so much older technology that they missed: Like pneumatic tube mail systems. I am sure there is enough to fill a book.
Paul Graham writes about open source and business.
It’s interesting. And long, so I post it here when having read only 20%.
In the background sings Dawn Upshaw, found without effort and within 5 seconds via Yahoo audio. Nice.
in case you need a power cable
Since people sell this, it looks like people buy this as well. Which does surprise me.
Yahoo continues to buy good things. Their purchasing team almost rivals the one from Trader Joes by now. This move makes allot of sense for both sides:
Konfabulator survives the complete rip off that 10.4 is. And Yahoo get’s a reference implementation for their XML services. Which puts them more in the middle of things. There were rumors that google builts its own browser. Yahoo has now something a little bit apart from a browser, but fully supported,
with developer community and known javascript. Nice.
I am personally a little bit attached to Konfabulator, since I wrote the first game that my son designed in it.