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Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog Features
Hot Topic, General Electric, General
Motors, Eli Lilly, Apple Computer

Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog Features
Hot Topic, General Electric, General
Motors, Eli Lilly, Apple Computer 04/15/2005 06:51 PM
Business Wire UK Apr 15 2005 11:04PM GMT

Terrible timing

Terrible timing 12/27/2004 04:34 AM
USA Today Dec 27 2004 7:02AM GMT

Terrible hunger

Terrible hunger 03/30/2005 02:47 PM
In plain and poignant language, Judith Moore's new memoir, "Fat Girl," chronicles her youth as an obese child starved of love.

The Terrible Teens

The Terrible Teens 06/18/2004 01:01 PM
Got any in your household? It's time to have "The Talk" -- the money talk, that is.

Terrible news

Terrible news 07/08/2004 08:31 AM
Ted Knight, Chevy Chase and now Will Ferrell have all spoofed TV news. But it's their real-life counterparts who are really funny.

A war's terrible legacy

A war's terrible legacy 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
Sexual violence continues in the Congo -- according to Amnesty International, at least 40,000 women in the country have been raped in the past six years.

Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible

Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible 09/10/2004 10:54 AM
How will companies and investors fare if the storm spawns moderate damage?

A terrible, buggy, monster.

A terrible, buggy, monster. 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

I found this very interesting read on the history of AWT, Swing, and SWT fom an undisclosed source via Roller user Jon Lipsky's blog. Here is a tasty excerpt:

Alan Williamson's mysterious "source close to IBM": At IBM we hated Swing from day one. Big, buggy, and looks [like] crap. Initially our tools such as VisualAge for Java were all written in Smalltalk ( which used native widgets ) so when we started to migrate these to a Java codebase we need a widget set. All of the IBM developers are the same crowd who used to work with Smalltalk, and we reluctantly under management orders built our WebSphere Studio tools using Swing. It was a terrible, buggy, monster. In our initial previews when it was demo'd against Microsoft Visual Studio products all our users hated it just because of how it looked, never mind what it let you do. Most shoppers don't like to get in car that looks and smells terrible, even if it does have a nice engine.

UPDATE: Jon Lipsky was contacted by somebody at Sun who claims there are many and major inaccuracies in the above story.

_vti...Very Terrible Idea?

_vti...Very Terrible Idea? 09/08/2004 12:58 PM

Vermeer Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage crap" in his Cy gwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on five floppies by Microsoft back when I was a beta-tester for MSN.)

Did you ever wonder where the "vti" prefix came from? Why those letters? Turns out they stood for "Vermeer Technologies Incorporated" which was the company that built FrontPage originally. They were the ones who came up with the idea of "WebBots" and "Server Extensions."

Microsoft bought Vermeer and its "Critically Acclaimed Visual Client-Server Web Publishing Tool" in January 1996 for $130-some-odd million. Here's the press release. As near as I can tell, Vermeer dropped off the face of the Earth after being acquired — they were simply absorbed into the Borg cube.

And here's a review of FrontPage from November 1995, just before they were acquired.

Vermeer's FrontPage Editor is an excellent WYSIWYG HTML editor with a built-in to-do list that keeps track of necessary changes to your Web pages. The only thing lacking is support for tables, which is planned for the next version [...]

No table support? We've come so far.

If this story interests you, the guy who founded Vermeer wrote a book about it: High Stakes, No Prisoners.

Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million — all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley.

You have to love the title of the first reader review: "If he's so smart, why isn't he richer?" I can't find any reference to what Ferguson is doing today.

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Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing

Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing 07/15/2004 12:06 AM
Business Week Jul 15 2004 2:39AM GMT

Tsunami mother's terrible choice

Tsunami mother's terrible choice 12/31/2004 06:41 AM
Jillian Searle knew she could not hold on to both her children during Sunday's tsunami - and had to let go of one of them.

FastCompany's terrible linking policy

FastCompany's terrible linking policy 06/26/2004 06:15 AM
FastCompany -- the tech magazine for the new economy -- has a spectacularily clueless policy on linking, in which they expect people who want to link to their site to fax a permission form to their legal department! Imagine if this were enforceable: the Web that Fast Company has built its business upon would crumble into a billion individuated and unlinked pages.

Due to the large volume of requests we receive, we do not have a reciprocal linking program. However, if you like, you may link to us at no cost. This option requires the execution by you and Fastcompany.com of a one-page Web-linking agreement. Please download and sign the agreement and fax it to 617-738-5055, attn: G+J legal, Fastcompany.com. As soon as you receive back the agreement signed on behalf of Fastcompany.com, you may begin linking to our content.

Here's some of the spectacularily clueless "linking agreement" Fast Company thinks it can force linkers to sign off on:

For good and valuable consideration, effective upon the duly authorized signatures of Owner and G+J below (the "Effective Date"), G+J hereby grants to Owner a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to create a hyperlink from the Linking Site to Inc.com from the Effective Date, unless and until such permission is terminated by G+J upon notice to Owner, subject to the following terms and conditions.

Owner hereby represents and warrants that: (i) any content displayed on the Linking Site shall not infringe upon or misappropriate any third party intellectual property or other proprietary rights, shall not invade any third party rights of privacy or publicity, shall be free from any libelous or obscene material, shall be accurate, and shall not otherwise violate any applicable law, regulation or non-proprietary third party right; (ii) the Linking Site does not and will not contain any harmful software code or viruses; (iii) Owner has duly registered the domain name of the Linking Site with all applicable authorities and possesses all rights necessary to use such domain name; and (iv) Owner shall use its best efforts, including any and all then-available technology, to prevent Internet users from downloading any content from Inc.com.

There are a lot of stupid organizations that have policies like this, but very few of them have the close relationship to the Web that FC has. The disturbing thing here is that FC's credibity as an authority on the Web lends credence to this bizarre and damaging idea of needing permission to link. Link (Thanks, Jordon!)

Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans

Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans 04/01/2005 04:57 PM

This trade-magazine article tries to show how cable operators are tied into Wi-Fi, but demonstrates their wrong-headed approach: The article surveys efforts by Comcast, Charter, and Time-Warner to offer their cable television subscribers some kind of Wi-Fi adjunct. But it's a lot of spotty, weird plans that don't bring enough locations or value.

Comcast partners with T-Mobile to discount the T-Mobile service, but as a Comcast subscriber, I can tell you I received a couple of coupons and virtually no information since about the partnership, which is more of a slightly discount off retail. If they wanted to do it right, they could pursue an SBC DSL/Wi-Fi promotion and offer a $20/month unlimited service plan--the same rate that T-Mobile only makes available to its cell subscribers. However, that might undercut T-Mobile cell market, and Comcast and T-Mobile aren't connected except through a partnership.

Time-Warner is installing Wi-Fi in a small number of random venues--the article makes it sound like quite a few, but the scale of "quite a few" is thousands now, not hundreds. The writer says that Time-Warner installs the service and sells minutes wholesale to the venue which then resells them at retail. Time-Warner Roadrunner cable subscribers get a small amount of free service in some locations.

Finally, Charter is reselling RemotePipes Wi-Fi footprint. They're an aggregator, but it's extremely difficult to understand their footprint from their Web site.

Bottom line: if this is the best they can do in response to SBC's DSL and Wi-Fi bundle, then we can expect the DSL churn rate in SBC territory to remain quite low.

A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind

A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind 07/06/2004 04:55 AM
In Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, you control a special agent who uses telekinetic powers to kill soldiers with the power of his mind alone. Unfortunately, your own brain won't get nearly as much of a workout. By Chris Kohler.

Contraloría General de la República de
Colombia Chooses IntraLearn LMSCampus
Virtual to offer online courses to
federal employees of Contraloría General

Contraloría General de la República de
Colombia Chooses IntraLearn LMSCampus
Virtual to offer online courses to
federal employees of Contraloría General 07/02/2004 03:16 AM
IntraLearn Latin America Ltda. (ILLA), the Latin American subsidiary of IntraLearn Software Corporation, the leading supplier of configurable e-Learning software applications to the mid-market, announced today that IntraLearn has been selected by the Contraloría General de la República de Colombia to supply the Learning Management System (LMS) to manage online courses as part of the overall Campus Virtual initiative. The IntraLearn LMS is part of the much larger project awarded to IntraLearn partner InfoGroup of Bogotá, Colombia and the product is being installed and supported by IntraLearn’s Venezuelan Authorized IntraLearn Reseller, NetPeople. [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004]

documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs

documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs 05/12/2004 05:35 PM
"The Latest Cyber Craze!"

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee 07/30/2004 03:41 PM

I’ve been wanting a thermal carafe coffee maker for some time. The traditional drip coffee maker uses a hotplate to keep the coffee warm after brewing, but this causes the coffee to continuously brew in the pot. That results in bad coffee.

Recently when I was in Target, I noticed they had a number of thermal carafe coffee makers at prices ranging from $40-$60, so I picked one up. It turned out to be a huge mistake.

The albatross I bought is known as the Hamilton Beach Stay or Go Coffee Maker and every cup of coffee that comes out of it has a stale, oily taste. I can’t even bring myself to drink it.

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
Here’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog? Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or “generalmotors” or “general motors” or “General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or … ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…

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Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen

Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen 09/05/2004 03:04 PM
Chechnya - What drives the separatists to commit such terrible outrages? By Masha Gessen .. a history of Chechen

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CBS Affair on KQED

CBS Affair on KQED 09/21/2004 02:23 PM
I'll be joining a panel Wednesday morning on KQED's Forum program, to discuss the CBS Bush memos story and its implications. We're on from 9-10 a.m.

The Berger Affair

The Berger Affair 07/21/2004 11:16 AM

NY Times: A Kerry Adviser Leaves the Race Over Missing Documents. Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, resigned abruptly Tuesday as a senior adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign after the disclosure that he had improperly removed classified material on terrorism from a secure government reading room last year. The decision came after Mr. Berger endured a day of furious criticism from Republican leaders, who accused him of breaching national security and possibly passing classified material to Mr. Kerry's campaign. Democrats, in turn, accused the Bush administration of leaking word of an F.B.I. investigation of Mr. Berger as a way of diverting attention from the release of the Sept. 11 commission's final report Thursday.

Plainly, Berger screwed up in a serious way here. The acts he has acknowledged are improper at the very least, and perhaps much worse than that. Maybe we'll know one of these days when the investigation concludes. Almost equally plainly, someone in the Bush administration or campaign illegally leaked word of the investigation just in time to start a political potboiler. The timing cannot be coincidental. The 9/11 commission's report, harshly critical of both the Clinton and Bush administrations' anti-terrorism policies, is being issued this week. And next week comes the Democratic convention in Boston. The Republicans are predictably claiming (among other things) a coverup, even though the 9/11 commission staff has been widely quoted as saying the commission had the documents in question. USA Today reports, for example: "There is no indication that Berger's action affected the 9/11 commission's work; a spokesman for the panel said Tuesday that the classified papers — some of which are still missing — were copies of original documents." The most puzzling aspect of this, as Josh Marshall correctly notes, is Berger's political tone-deafness. Marshall asks: "Why didn't Sandy Berger step aside from his advisory position for John Kerry some time ago?" Good question.

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It's a family affair

It's a family affair 02/10/2004 02:42 AM

One Very Tangled Post-9/11 Affair

One Very Tangled Post-9/11 Affair 05/23/2004 04:51 PM
A surprising number of firemen have left their wives for the widows of their brethren who died at the World Trade Center.

Nike's European Affair

Nike's European Affair 06/28/2004 01:33 PM
Sponsorship deals with European soccer teams spur Nike's growth.

"Valerie Plame affair"

"Valerie Plame affair" 06/04/2004 08:14 PM

MSNBC - An Affair To Regret

MSNBC - An Affair To Regret 08/16/2004 08:37 AM
MCGREEVEY ADVISERS URGED HIM NOT TO RESIGN; WANTED HIM TO TOUGH IT OUT LIKE CLINTON .. Newsweek has also spotted some of the vermin

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Apple's Foreign Affair

Apple's Foreign Affair 03/20/2003 06:37 PM
It is unacceptable and counterproductive to have such ludicrous regional price differences. (MacWrite via MyAppleMenu)

Using Your Computer Too Much Makes You
Have An Affair

Using Your Computer Too Much Makes You
Have An Affair 08/23/2004 02:21 PM
Brad Brunfelt writes "Apparently either using your computer too much or having multiple email accounts makes you have an affair. The Christian Science Monitor accepts the statement: "One of the first signs of cyber-affairs, Daniels notes, is a spouse who spends excessive time on the computer. Using multiple e-mail addresses could also serve as a warning of cyber-flirting." Sounds like a lot of us have some explaining to do to our spouses, because we all know that they suspect us anyway. And we all know that there are no other good reasons to use multiple email addresses or be online at night. It MUST be an affair."

Dottiness Is A Family Affair

Dottiness Is A Family Affair 07/14/2004 06:41 PM
"Driving from home to the studio wasted time. That's why we built Dot-Pod. Now we are collaborating and sharing music by iPods across the web." By Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald (via MyAppleMenu)

The other side of the McGreevey affair?

The other side of the McGreevey affair? 08/13/2004 07:39 PM

Woman denies affair with officer

Woman denies affair with officer 08/09/2004 07:43 AM
A woman accused of supplying a false alibi to a Soham officer denies they were intimate.

USNews.com: John Leo: End of the Schiavo
affair (4/11/05)

USNews.com: John Leo: End of the Schiavo
affair (4/11/05) 04/05/2005 04:07 AM
Those who believe we could never have another Civil War may be whistling in the dark .. John Leo: End Of The Schiavo Affair .. botched this more if he tried .. he gets it exactly right

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...as in the Dreyfus Affair, stay with
me people!

...as in the Dreyfus Affair, stay with
me people! 05/22/2004 08:26 AM
Kinsley goes Zola on Brooks "In his writing and on television, he actually seems reasonable. More than that, he seems cuddly. He gives the impression of being open to persuasion. Like the elderly Jewish lady who thinks someone must be Jewish because ''he's so nice,'' liberals suspect that a writer as amiable as Brooks must be a liberal at heart. Some conservatives think so too." via A&L Daily

E-Mail, Blogging and the Lott Affair

E-Mail, Blogging and the Lott Affair 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
The lesson isn't that blogs weren't important. They were. But the journalistic ecosystem, which includes a myriad of sources who are sometimes buried deep in the background, is more complex than it may appear on the surface.

Microsoft Settles New Mexico Affair

Microsoft Settles New Mexico Affair 08/04/2004 06:41 AM
Internetnews.com - Wed Aug 4, 06:14 am GMT

FA confirm England coach's affair

FA confirm England coach's affair 07/25/2004 02:20 PM
England coach Sven Goran Eriksson had an affair with a Football Association secretary, the FA has said.

Microsoft's Wireless Affair Ends

Microsoft's Wireless Affair Ends 05/13/2004 12:27 PM
Mr. Softy decides to stop selling wireless networking devices.

Hybrids rev up for annual auto affair

Hybrids rev up for annual auto affair 03/23/2005 07:45 AM
Computer-enhanced autos, alternative-fuel vehicles will take driver's seat at New York International Auto Show.
Photos: Hot cars in the city

N.J. Governor Resigns, Admits Gay Affair
(AP)

N.J. Governor Resigns, Admits Gay Affair
(AP) 08/12/2004 08:15 PM
AP - In a stunning declaration, Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation Thursday and acknowledged that he had an affair with another man. "My truth is that I am a gay American," he said with his wife by his side at a nationally televised news conference.
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