Friday, February 05, 2010
Weekend 127.0
(1) Good News in the Daily Grind: Your Coffee May Have Some Health Perks, but Can Brew Trouble in People With Certain Conditions(2) Prepare to get schooled in my Austrian perspective.
(2a) How Obama got Keynes wrong
(3) Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
(4) "In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing that Chaos and Old Night. (Yes conservatives know, with Burke, that healthy "change is the means of our preservation.") A people's historic continuity of experience, says the conservative, offers a guide to policy far better that the abstract designs of coffee-house philosophers." - Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence
(5) "It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it...forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize..." - Phil 3:8-14
Labels: economics, microsoft, quotes, weekend
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Weekend 119.0
It starts when I say so.(1) World's Fastest Superliner Awaits Rebirth—or the Scrap Yard
Out of service for 40 years, the SS United States still holds speed records. But what fate awaits this storied piece of naval history?
(2) Braves' Hudson signs three-year extension
(3) U.S. player Charlie Davies released from D.C. hospital
(4) THE VENTURE BROS.: It's Side 2 of Dark Side of the Moon! He's in a Floyd Hole.
(5) Rebel clubs plan breakaway North American league
(6) Microsoft Protection Center: Win32/FakeSpypro - This is a real nasty bugger.
(7) Bill Gates comments on the folly of government regulation in economic/human activity.
(8) Must Read Book: The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
by Charles GasparinoLabels: baseball, books, microsoft, soccer, weekend
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Weekend 86.0
(1) Thousands in scramble for free books after Amazon supplier abandons warehouse(2) Microsoft Shows Off More Windows 7 Improvements
(3) 14 Awesome Windows 7 Wallpapers
(4) Ryanair Pay-to-Pee Proposal Pisses Off Customers
(5) Peter Arnell Explains Failed Tropicana Package Design (The packaging was the equivalent of the iObama™ European Socialism Plan)
(6) Pulp friction at Tropicana
Labels: airlines, books, microsoft, weekend
Thursday, January 08, 2009
As I Please (Microsoft Edition)
(1) Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download
(2) Video: Why Microsoft Wants Windows 7 Out ASAP
(3) How to Get Your Mitts on the Windows 7 Beta
(4) Windows 7: Less of a Resource-Hog Than Vista
(2) Video: Why Microsoft Wants Windows 7 Out ASAP
(3) How to Get Your Mitts on the Windows 7 Beta
(4) Windows 7: Less of a Resource-Hog Than Vista
Labels: microsoft
Friday, December 26, 2008
Weekend 78.0
Monday, December 22, 2008
Blistering Computer Fans
(1) Motherboard Manufacturer Abit Dead (Sort-of) (PC World)(2) Fans Plan Silent Protest for Steve-less Macworld
(3) Microsoft again extends Windows XP drop-dead date
(4) My Vista horror story
(5) Vista experience turns into consumer nightmare
Labels: microsoft
Friday, September 05, 2008
Weekend 65.0
I have a quote, a couple of links and one photo from the archives before I sign-off. As for deconstructing this post, it's above my pay-grade.
This is a picture of some graffiti I took near an underpass. Lovely.
Some links...
Microsoft's New Spot From Crispin Is an Ad About Nothing (So Far)
The Real Google Agenda
"First, a little background. Google sits at the confluence of two historic Silicon Valley philosophical streams. One, which comes from Sergey Brinn and Larry Page, the two founders, reaches back all of the way to the early days of computing and continues forward through the world of gamers, hackers, Apple, and the Web 2.0 generation. It is essentially Utopian in its belief that technology – especially the Web – will bring about a better world (hence, Google’s ‘Do No Evil’ motto). It also has absolutist (some would even say totalitarian) tendencies, in that it also believes that the empiricism of science and technology supersedes messy human institutions. It is proudly amoral, which is why it can celebrate hackers – or for that matter, Steve Jobs – as heroes, as long as they remain innovators."
A quote...
Britain controls today the destinies of some 350,000,000 alien people, unable as yet to govern themselves, and easy victims to rapine and injustice, unless a strong arm guides them. She is giving them a rule that has its faults, no doubt, but such, I would make bold to affirm, as no conquering state ever before gave to a dependent people.
- Professor George M. Wrong, 1909
This is a picture of some graffiti I took near an underpass. Lovely. Some links...
Microsoft's New Spot From Crispin Is an Ad About Nothing (So Far)
The Real Google Agenda
"First, a little background. Google sits at the confluence of two historic Silicon Valley philosophical streams. One, which comes from Sergey Brinn and Larry Page, the two founders, reaches back all of the way to the early days of computing and continues forward through the world of gamers, hackers, Apple, and the Web 2.0 generation. It is essentially Utopian in its belief that technology – especially the Web – will bring about a better world (hence, Google’s ‘Do No Evil’ motto). It also has absolutist (some would even say totalitarian) tendencies, in that it also believes that the empiricism of science and technology supersedes messy human institutions. It is proudly amoral, which is why it can celebrate hackers – or for that matter, Steve Jobs – as heroes, as long as they remain innovators."
A quote...
Britain controls today the destinies of some 350,000,000 alien people, unable as yet to govern themselves, and easy victims to rapine and injustice, unless a strong arm guides them. She is giving them a rule that has its faults, no doubt, but such, I would make bold to affirm, as no conquering state ever before gave to a dependent people.
- Professor George M. Wrong, 1909
Labels: end times, microsoft, weekend
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Seattle Sounders FC
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Weekend 50.0
Microsoft is going to stop offering XP. According to this article sales of XP will end June 30, 2008. There is an online petition calling for an extension.
Related
Why Microsoft Won't Extend Windows XP's Lifespan
It's crashing and it won't boot up.
20 Reasons why Vista Sucks!
My Vista Experience, Part One
The money quote:
Related
Why Microsoft Won't Extend Windows XP's Lifespan
It's crashing and it won't boot up.
20 Reasons why Vista Sucks!
My Vista Experience, Part One
The money quote:
Due to all the issues above, there are numerous reports of people being forced to buy a Vista system, then after getting it into their hands proceed to wipe the OS off the hard drive and install XP instead. Microsoft should be ashamed and taken to task for releasing such a half-baked product into the marketplace...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
DOS
I was installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (pre-release) on my laptop and received the dreaded blue screen on reboot. I was able to google the error message (see below) and quickly found a technical forum with a solution. My biggest challenge was remembering a couple of DOS commands.
stop: c0000139 {entry point not found} The procedure entry point GdiGetBitmapBitsize could not be located in the dynamic link library GDI32.dll
Related
Microsoft finishes Windows XP Service Pack 3
stop: c0000139 {entry point not found} The procedure entry point GdiGetBitmapBitsize could not be located in the dynamic link library GDI32.dll
Related
Microsoft finishes Windows XP Service Pack 3
Labels: microsoft
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Microsoft 3.1
The turmoil continues in Microsoft's online services division with the departure of Joanne Bradford. The article is a week old but sometimes the Limestone Roof Director of Print provides me with a stack of articles that I just can't get to.
I suppose this explains why Microsoft is bidding $42B for Yahoo.
Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista?
Windows 7 slated for 2010
Windows Vista -- Now I'm Angry, Too
Originally Posted: 3/5
I suppose this explains why Microsoft is bidding $42B for Yahoo.
Microsoft consists of five major divisions: Windows operating systems; Office applications; server software; entertainment systems, such as Xbox; and online services. The last category includes Web advertising and search services, in which the company ranks a distant third behind Google and Yahoo. Microsoft loses money on both its online and entertainment divisions.Related
Source
Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista?
Windows 7 slated for 2010
Windows Vista -- Now I'm Angry, Too
Originally Posted: 3/5
Labels: microsoft
