Monthly Archive for January, 2004

Ammo for the dot-space-space argument

Chicago Manual of Style – Q & A – One Space or Two? answers one. Which is correct, to my mind. I’ve been fighting an uphill battle about this in every company I’ve worked in. The main arguments are around inefficiency and error likelihood.

Are companies psychopaths?

Kottke reviews The Corporation and asks whether companies fit the DSM IV criteria for psychopathy? (And answers yes.)

eMarketer trends to watch in 04

11 Trends to Watch in 2004 actually has some data to back up the selected trends.

More misguided DRM

Slashdot has a thread on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products. This relates to the announcement that Photoshop won’t edit some currency images to prevent counterfeiting. This type of control is now being found in printer drivers as well. I can’t see how this can have any effect at all: there will always be products that don’t have such protections (OSS for example) and the counterfeiters can’t be that stupid! All it does is prevent idle copying at work. Which is, like, totally the major issue confronting governments.

Surely this has to be rubbish

Lie-detector glasses offer peek at future of security. Based on technology that is 96% accurate in detecting love. I don’t believe it. I will no doubt be proven wrong.

Where Jonny works

Personal FYI: Analytica is Jonza’s current work.

Big disks

LaCie – Big Disc 500Gb looks like a good solution for backup for a small company like ours. No offsite option, but that’s what CDs / DVDs are for. Our tape system works horribly if at all, so we’re looking for something sensible. Thanks to Joel for the pointer.

El Reg on Google email ads

The Register has a nice article on the Google / email rumours. In summary: sort out your search, then worry about other ways of making money.

Grating and drying

Great kitchen graters and funky microfiber towels.

Public Sector OSS project

The Massachusetts Public Sector Open Source Initiative is exactly what we’re trying to do with LAWs.

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