Saturday, October 22, 2005

12:02:23 PM   After 46 years, bring it on.

2:32:34 AM    AOL lays off about 4% of staff. AOL has cut more than 700 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce, mostly among employees who currently provide support to AOL subscribers. \ Going dooooowwwwnnnn....and please take Google with you.

2:28:08 AM   Joel: Architecture Astronauts Are Back. - "The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. "

2:23:32 AM   "They try to balance the costs of more-secure software -- extra developers, fewer features, longer time to market -- against the costs of insecure software: expense to patch, occasional bad press, potential loss of sales. The result is what you see all around you: lousy software. "  Sue Companies, Not Coders. \ The emphasis is all mine.  Software sucks because greedy companies push krap out the door daily.

2:19:24 AM   Throwing the Books at Google. First the authors sue; now the publishers. Google's plan to index millions of copyright-protected books on the internet brings another lawsuit, even as company lawyers argue that making the books more accessible should actually spur sales. [via Wired News]

2:15:21 AM   Imagine the cultural impact of putting tens of millions of previously inaccessible volumes into one vast index, every word of which is searchable by anyone, rich and poor, urban and rural, First World and Third, en toute langue -- and all, of course, entirely for free.- Google's Eric Schmidt What Google imagines is a treasure trove of other people's work which they can put ads in and around so that you will click and they make money. They say free to you and charge others. It is that simple. Free, free, free, $, $, $. Let us only hope and pray they sink some (all ?) of that recently raised stock pile of cash into the sinking AOL.  Here they are seeing their AOL income wander off to Yahoo or MSN and it is killing them.  Google the soaring young techies with no where to go but down and AOL the fast sinking ship.

2:05:44 AM   'Gold Digger' mines another week on top (Reuters). \  I don't get this.  Though I like his politics this song is krap.

1:55:47 AM   Could we get lucky enough that Rove, Libby and Cheney all get implicated ?

1:51:40 AM   The World Series and complete Sox mania shift into high gear today :-)

1:41:36 AM   Mike Z finds work -  As Nortel appoints new CEO, users hope for growth. Nortel Networks customers look at the appointment of Mike Zafirovski to be the company's new CEO as a way for Nortel to continue rebuilding itself after four years of turmoil.  \ MOT is suing him for breaking the non-compete.  I think I'd pay him to go and ruin somewhere else.