Monthly Archives: May 2005

Freedom Is Not Free

Last year on this Memorial Day weekend, the National WW II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC. Looking back two years to Memorial Day 2003, we read the good words of the (then) San Francisco Chronicle’s Rob Morse: This Memorial … Continue reading

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Customers

“Customers have a tendency to become like the kind of customers you treat them.” So says Dave Martin in a great opinion piece about inspiring customer loyalty that’s posted on BankStocks.com. Are your customers smart and loyal? Do you treat … Continue reading

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Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp

As I mentioned here a few weeks back, last Thursday and Friday we held the first Glenbrook public “boot camp” on payments at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Carol and I had a great time hosting it and … Continue reading

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Finally

Finally, we had one of those northern California weekends that we have come to expect! After a very rainy Thursday, the skies cleared Friday morning and both Saturday and Sunday were downright superb — as weather goes. It also looks … Continue reading

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Road Scholar

Elderhostel has introduced a great new series of programs called Road Scholar. Oh to have the time (make the time?) to take a few of these trips! [Tnx: Nancy Fernandez Mills]

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Flying Up the Tailpipe

Cringely’s latest talks about Microsoft’s Xbox as a trojan horse PC: Whatever the reason, there is no going back now: Microsoft is in direct competition with its own customers.

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Microsoft and IBM PowerPC

Fascinating to read this EE Times story about the new Microsoft Xbox 360 and its use of three custom IBM PowerPC processors — abandoning Intel. Officially launched Thursday night (May 12) over broadcast TV, the Xbox 360 uses three custom … Continue reading

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Monday Monday

Such a beautiful sunset tonight looking out through the Golden Gate…I just had to blog it! We’ve had some crazy weather over the last few days — northern California winter in May. But tonight, looking out through the Golden Gate, … Continue reading

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Spotlight on Mac OS X Server?

I was thinking this morning about coupling a Mac Mini together with a Google Mini for a killer office file server with superb search capability. Then I got to thinking that I’d really prefer to shed the $2,000+ Google Mini … Continue reading

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Mac Mini

David Hornik writes about Mac Mini — as the new new network computer. Kinda makes me want to pick-up a couple of them for the office! His story reminds me of what I began noticing a couple of years back … Continue reading

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