Archive for June, 2002
[PowerPoint add-on allows online collaboration. Gnutella-based technology promotes file sharing [InfoWorld: Top News]
An impressive display of loyalty and creativity. If you haven't yet browsed this site, I highly recommend it. – andy
The fundraiser ends, and the next stage begins. The first Kuro5hin fundraising drive is officially over, and by any measure, it's been a fantastic success. Altogether you contributed over $37,000 in memberships, donations, and text ads, along with perhaps another $2500 in donation pledges, and an unknown amount in pay-by-mail memberships. I should be able to report a final “grand total” in a few weeks. This incredible response has caught the attention and imagination of innumerable webloggers and the online media, including The Register, Wired News, and C|Net (where a column should be appearing later today). What just happened? What does it all mean? What do we do now? Below I'll take a stab at explaining it clearly. [kuro5hin.org]
Lord Byron. “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day] [dws.]
Yang owns around 45 million shares of Yahoo! This is nothing big, but it's funny what two college students can make out of an experiment. Despite the economy, it is still a great time to be alive. – andy
Yahoo's Yang sells 250,000 shares. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is on a selling streak. In May he sold 550,000 shares of the Internet media company, worth $8.1 million. [CNET News.com]
Penguin Suits
Well, I'm off to pick up tuxedo #2. This is our third wedding in as many months. After this one, only one more to go. It sure has been a busy summer. I can hardly wait until August.
I think that this is an important service that we need to begin considering. Insurance is truly a necessary evil. I know that when I don't have it, I get very nervous, but when I get it, I can't stop complaining about it. – andy
Long-term Care Insurance. It's more than you think it is — and more vital, too. [The Motley Fool]
Dell is willing to put it's name on anything if they can make a buck. Not that it's a bad idea, but aren't there enough handhelds out there? – andy
Report: Dell to try its hand at handhelds. A new report from market researcher ARS speculates that the PC giant is getting ready to go with a system based on Microsoft's Pocket PC platform. [CNET News.com]
Which is worse: Internet Explorer (IE) because it crashes so often and the cache gets stuck or Mozilla because it's so darn slow?
Which browser do you use and why?
I haven't tried the tool yet, but I'll post the results here. – andy
Email Conversion Tool: Emailchemy is a utility that helps you regain ownership of your email by extracting it from the proprietary file formats used by many of yesterdayâs forgotten and todayâs most popular email applications. Emailchemy reads email from the proprietary formats of the most popular email applications and converts them to standard, portable formats that any application can use.