2 probes seek cause of tunnel leak. State officials announced two separate investigations into the water leak inside the Central Artery's northbound tunnel and said yesterday they will hold Big Dig contractors accountable for the costs of any mistakes that caused Wednesday's breach. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Month: September 2004
Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done. New from But She's A Girl: a fine discussion about the theory and practice of the Getting Things Done methodology — with Tinderbox. [Mark Bernstein]
Ray Ozzie on 9-11 Commission Report IT Implications
Ray Ozzie on 9-11 Commission Report IT Implications. Another interview with Ray Ozzie that may be of interest: T.C. Doyle of VARBusiness magazine recently interviewed Ray on what implications the 9-11 Commission report has for value-added resellers, systems integrators and other IT specialists. Here's an excerpt from the article: Ozzie makes the case that all… Continue reading Ray Ozzie on 9-11 Commission Report IT Implications
Sony to buy MGM
Sony
announced its agreement to buy the assets of MGM/United Artists. Sony
will pay a total of around $5 billion, including an assumption of debt.
It beat out an offer from rival Time-Warner for the company. Several
equity partners are backing the buy.
In terms of market share, the #3 Hollywood studio
Sony to buy MGM Sony announced its agreement to buy the assets of MGM/United Artists. Sony will pay a total of around $5 billion, including an assumption of debt. It beat out an offer from rival Time-Warner for the company. Several equity partners are backing the buy. In terms of market share, the #3 Hollywood… Continue reading
Sony to buy MGM
Sony
announced its agreement to buy the assets of MGM/United Artists. Sony
will pay a total of around $5 billion, including an assumption of debt.
It beat out an offer from rival Time-Warner for the company. Several
equity partners are backing the buy.
System Comments Character Limit And Browsing
System Comments Character Limit And Browsing. I'm currently in the process of setting up all of our new servers in a Win 2003 Active Directory Domain. Currently working on getting all of the servers set up for backups. Noticed during this that I could not see most of the new servers in the “browse list”… Continue reading System Comments Character Limit And Browsing
Iraq Counter-Insurgency Strategy
Iraq Counter-Insurgency Strategy. One strategy for dealing with 4GW global guerrillas is to deescalate the conflict (within the moral sphere). This isn't weakness, rather it is a method by which you turn a strength of your opponents into a weakness. A fundamental inconsistancy with the US position in Iraq is that we escalated to the… Continue reading Iraq Counter-Insurgency Strategy
Skype.com: Built with TopStyle
Skype.com: Built with TopStyle. Erki Esken, Web Developer for Skype Technologies, just sent me the following: “I'm happy to say that almost all the code on new www.skype.com was built with TopStyle. And I must say writing valid XHTML and CSS in TopStyle is a breeze 
Thanks again for a great program.” [Nick Bradbury]
Virus-Free Macs
Virus-Free Macs. “The single most effective way to avoid viruses and spyware is to simply chuck Windows altogether and buy an Apple Macintosh,” writes Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal. “There has never been a successful virus written for Mac OS X, and there is almost no spyware that targets the Mac. Plus, the… Continue reading Virus-Free Macs
Radio 8.1 Beta Update
Radio 8.1 Beta Update. I'd like to take a moment and give everyone an update on the impending release of Radio 8.1 to the public. There's been a flurry of activity in the last two days, building beta installers and finalizing code. With that, we've made some minor changes to our commitments listed in the… Continue reading Radio 8.1 Beta Update
Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth
NY Times: Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth. Amazon.com, the e-commerce giant, plans to take aim at the Internet search king Google with an advanced technology that the company says will take searches beyond mere retrieval of Web pages to let users more fully manage the information they find. [Tomalak's Realm]