“Great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint…” – Leo Szilard, one of the creators of the Atomic Bomb On 4/10/02 1:57 PM, “Mike Masnick” wrote: > Blowing up towers full of civilians getting ready for their > day of...
I think both sides have some good points. I think that Israelis and Palestinians as societies share a lot in common. They are both really very frightened, and ultimately they both just want to have a nice home where their families can be safe. And neither society has...
Remember I don’t always agree with stuff that I post to FOIB. 🙂 ———– http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/opinion/31FRIE.html March 31, 2002 Suicidal Lies By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The outcome of the war now under way between the Israelis and...
http://www2.mybc.com/news/fs.cfm?source_id=CP&id91048 Saturday , Apr 06, 2002      Bodies to be cleared Japanese climber leading team to clean up Mount Everest An ace Japanese climber and his team headed for Mount Everest on Friday to clean up the...
You’ll see a very familiar name quoted in this story. It seems like I’m becoming the poster child for the miserable Unified Communications industry. I fed him three or four ideas for this article: 1) Quantifying the value proposition in real, business case...
Their April Fool’s Day joke…. http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html The technology behind Google’s great results As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find...
The “Bert is Evil” web site has been taken down. For the uninitiated, there’s an archived version of it at: http://www.spacecat.com/bert/bert.htm Anyway, apparently this all peaked this past October when some pro-Taliban protesters downloaded a...
Bad week for Napster. Their re-launch is still on hold because the labels still won’t play ball, and now their exit strategy is being foiled thanks to a seed investor squabble. Probably at stake is the severe penalty that Napster investors will pay in the...
AOL has reversed the decision I reported a year ago [1] to force AOL employees to use AOL email, probably as a result of internal revolt (or is that disgust?). A tangent — who the hell uses the word: “e-mail” still? -Ian. [1]...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
