640KB ought to be enough for anyone. Last year about this time I had a big travel-related gap in blogging; this year it's the same. I had few minutes today, so here's a stream-of-consciousness largely about WinFS, based on some recent conversations. Fire away. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]
Month: November 2003
Time for the next Book of the Month.
Time for the next Book of the Month. Almost any argument about managing the software development process inevitably deteriorates into anecdote-ping-pong. “We did wawa and everyone quit.” “Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Company X? They wawa regularly and their stock is up 20%!” If you have even the slightest bit of common sense,… Continue reading Time for the next Book of the Month.
Kudos to VMware
Kudos to VMware. A few months ago I bought a copy of VMware, and now I can't imagine how I tested my software without it. Previously, I'd create separate partitions for each version of Windows, which required rebooting into the desired OS in order to test – a tedious way to do things. As this… Continue reading Kudos to VMware
The Geography of Scotch Whisky
The Geography of Scotch Whisky. Here's a new, 1,000-word cloudtravel essay on the enjoyment of Scotch whisky intersecting with the enjoyment of travel…. [cloudtravel]
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know. In the December issue of Fast Company, we lead with a little-known look at Wal-Mart: how the big-box retailer affects the suppliers it works with — and how partnering with the company can make or break a business. [Fast Company Now]
Law Firm marketing with weblogs
Law Firm marketing with weblogs. Here at our 40+ lawyer firm in New Orleans we are scratching our heads trying to figure out how to make one of the pages on our website into an effective marketing tool. We've managed to make our News & Events page into a weblog using Movable Type software. And we've… Continue reading Law Firm marketing with weblogs
Dave
What Dave is working on sounds like something Dann and I built in 1998 at Gomez. A shared publishing system where our analysts used a set taxonomy to create “custom” newspages devoted to specific topics. Of course, we didn't call them weblogs back then, and the format wasn't open to different systems (via standards). The… Continue reading Dave
The biggest part of the winning the war on terrorism isn't our machinations in the ME, it is keeping the global economy growing over the long term (and expanding that growth to new areas of the world). New data indicates that the management of the US economy is key to making this happen (something the Bush team seems uniquely ill prepared to do — could you imagine a Russian, Mexican, or East Asian financial crisis with the Bush team at the helm?? Yikes!). IF our economy falters, the global economy will contract severely spreading terrorism faster than we can stamp it out. This is from Stephen Roach:
In all my years in this business, I’ve never come across such a worrisome and potentially lethal confluence of imbalances. For starters, they are global in scope. A lopsided world economy has never been so dependent on one growth engine — the United States. Over the seven-year 1995 to 2002 interval, revised figures now indicate that the US accounted for fully 96% of the cumulative increase in world GDP (at market exchange rates); that’s nearly three times America’s 33% share in the global economy. (Note: Previously, our estimates suggested that the US had accounted for 64% of the increase in world GDP over the 1994 to 2001 interval; revised statistics now place the total increase in world GDP over the 1995 to 2002 interval at $3.164 trillion and the US gain at $3.045 trillion over the same period.) In other words, outside of the United States, the rest of the world accounted for only 4% of the cumulative increase in global GDP over the seven years ending in 2002. While the strength of the dollar has exaggerated America’s contribution to world GDP growth over this period, there can be no mistaking the extraordinarily narrow base of this US-centric global growth dynamic.
[John Robb's Weblog
In all my years in this business, I’ve never come across such a worrisome and potentially lethal confluence of imbalances. For starters, they are global in scope. A lopsided world economy has never been so dependent on one growth engine — the United States. Over the seven-year 1995 to 2002 interval, revised figures now indicate that the US accounted for fully 96% of the cumulative increase in world GDP (at market exchange rates); that’s nearly three times America’s 33% share in the global economy. (Note: Previously, our estimates suggested that the US had accounted for 64% of the increase in world GDP over the 1994 to 2001 interval; revised statistics now place the total increase in world GDP over the 1995 to 2002 interval at $3.164 trillion and the US gain at $3.045 trillion over the same period.) In other words, outside of the United States, the rest of the world accounted for only 4% of the cumulative increase in global GDP over the seven years ending in 2002. While the strength of the dollar has exaggerated America’s contribution to world GDP growth over this period, there can be no mistaking the extraordinarily narrow base of this US-centric global growth dynamic.
The biggest part of the winning the war on terrorism isn't our machinations in the ME, it is keeping the global economy growing over the long term (and expanding that growth to new areas of the world). New data indicates that the management of the US economy is key to making this happen (something the Bush… Continue reading The biggest part of the winning the war on terrorism isn't our machinations in the ME, it is keeping the global economy growing over the long term (and expanding that growth to new areas of the world). New data indicates that the management of the US economy is key to making this happen (something the Bush team seems uniquely ill prepared to do — could you imagine a Russian, Mexican, or East Asian financial crisis with the Bush team at the helm?? Yikes!). IF our economy falters, the global economy will contract severely spreading terrorism faster than we can stamp it out. This is from Stephen Roach:
In all my years in this business, I’ve never come across such a worrisome and potentially lethal confluence of imbalances. For starters, they are global in scope. A lopsided world economy has never been so dependent on one growth engine — the United States. Over the seven-year 1995 to 2002 interval, revised figures now indicate that the US accounted for fully 96% of the cumulative increase in world GDP (at market exchange rates); that’s nearly three times America’s 33% share in the global economy. (Note: Previously, our estimates suggested that the US had accounted for 64% of the increase in world GDP over the 1994 to 2001 interval; revised statistics now place the total increase in world GDP over the 1995 to 2002 interval at $3.164 trillion and the US gain at $3.045 trillion over the same period.) In other words, outside of the United States, the rest of the world accounted for only 4% of the cumulative increase in global GDP over the seven years ending in 2002. While the strength of the dollar has exaggerated America’s contribution to world GDP growth over this period, there can be no mistaking the extraordinarily narrow base of this US-centric global growth dynamic.
NYTimes Friedman
Bing! NYTimes Friedman: One could easily do a revisionist history of 9/11 and show how it was simply the opening salvo in an attempted coup within Saudi Arabia — with the attack on America meant only as a bank shot to undermine one of the main supports of the Saudi ruling family. Last week's Riyadh… Continue reading NYTimes Friedman
Pair Programming
Pair Programming: Ideal Pair Stations Source: Eddie Garmon's Weblog * [Archipelago]