The curse of IT specialisation

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Cisco announces channel partner
specialisation

Cisco announces channel partner
specialisation 07/06/2004 03:12 AM
Khaleej Times Jul 6 2004 7:29AM GMT

VITAL Network Services Receives
Recertification for Wireless LAN
Specialisation from Cisco Systems

VITAL Network Services Receives
Recertification for Wireless LAN
Specialisation from Cisco Systems 08/03/2004 02:09 AM
[PRWEB Aug 3, 2004]

Curse of the Net

Curse of the Net 05/19/2004 04:38 AM

Speaking of Google, Evan blogged from the SBC Park last tuesday and took this picture.

I think it's neat that WiFi is available at the park and geeks tend to posse with other geeks, but the picture made me shake my head.  Four laptops in a row, including the one Evan probably had in front of him while he took the picture, at a baseball park?

Hmm.  Maybe this was sort of a work thing.  A WiFi-enabled stadium is a perfect place for flash P2P grid computing after all.  Who needs expensive office spaces when your team can work at round-the-clock movie theathers and holding meetings at the lobby?  When WiFi access at campsites become widely available, maybe we'll see startups working out of tents and RVs.

Curse of the Controller

Curse of the Controller 03/16/2003 01:58 AM
Most games that exist for the PSX and PS2 use the X button as the confirm/main action, except for importtype games like Xenosaga, wih its

The curse of MSN strikes another MS VP

The curse of MSN strikes another MS VP 06/09/2004 06:06 AM
It was five years ago today... 8 June 1999

" The curse of the internet"

" The curse of the internet" 09/17/2004 03:01 AM

The curse of anonymity

The curse of anonymity 09/05/2004 12:52 AM

As much as I love the web and am incredibly thankful for the opportunities it has provided for me, days like today make me loathe its anonymity. The day started off with a nasty bout of comment spam, followed at midday by dealing with someone posting FeedDemon serial numbers (since disabled) to a warez site, then ended with a bizarre series of threats from a disgruntled Dreamweaver user. Before I continue, take a look at this Google Groups search for some background information.

As you can see, someone has made several posts to various Macromedia newsgroups claiming that TopStyle has hijacked Dreamweaver. His complaint is that every time he tries to open a CSS file in Dreamweaver, it opens in TopStyle instead. And since he installed the trial version of TopStyle, it's asking him to register it. Now, the reason TopStyle keeps being opened is actually due to a bug in Dreamweaver. Every time you start Dreamweaver, it automatically detects TopStyle and sets it as the default CSS editor - even if you've removed it from the "File Types / Editors" list in Dreamweaver's preferences. So matter what you do, if you have TopStyle installed, Dreamweaver uses it as the external CSS editor.

Here's the kicker: this same person has emailed me several times and threatened to start a class action lawsuit against my company unless I pay him $1,000.00 by September 9. Here's a quote:

"I have an attorney on the staff of my company and we are going to be moving aggressively against companies using unscrupulous marketing practices such as yours. The time we lost today cost us about $1,000. That is the amount that will make us go away. Otherwise we are going to seek a class action lawsuit against you. We will start by finding others who have been damaged by your practices. This will be done with a Google Adwords ad that comes up each time someone enters topstyle or bradsoft into Google. Send the check for $1,000 to: [address removed]"

Now, obviously this guy has a loose wire, and his threat is laughable - if he ever tried to file suit, he would be in hot water for extortion. But being a one-man-show, it's incredibly hard for me to spend time dealing with people like this - yet I have to, because their posts to public newsgroups show up in Google searches for my software.

Does anyone else have to deal with this kind of garbage, and if so, how do you handle it?

The Allure and Curse of Complexity

The Allure and Curse of Complexity 07/08/2004 05:33 PM

The Curse of Beauty for Serious
Musicians

The Curse of Beauty for Serious
Musicians 05/27/2004 03:26 PM
Classical music still seems to have trouble dealing with strong women. If you're attractive, it seems, you must also be cheesy and commercial.

Curse Me Heart o' Gold!

Curse Me Heart o' Gold! 01/24/2003 02:11 AM
Skies of Arcadia. I actually bought this game, and a Dreamcast, years ago on Google’s praise that it was an awesome game. And you know what? I hated it. ...

VPNs – Blessing Or Curse?

VPNs – Blessing Or Curse? 08/12/2004 09:54 AM

Curse Your Way to Live Support

Curse Your Way to Live Support 02/10/2004 01:14 PM
Slashdot Feb 10 2004 5:26PM GMT

The curse of the orange hats

The curse of the orange hats 01/22/2004 02:11 AM

The Curse of Dick Cheney

The Curse of Dick Cheney 09/06/2004 02:38 PM
Cheney disclosed. Rolling Stone's profile of our ambitious vice-president and the team he assembled to keep himself in power: "'They were like cancer cells,' says retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, who worked on the Defense Department's Near East and South Asia desk during the buildup to the Iraq war. 'They didn't care about the truth. They had an agenda. I'd never seen anything like it. They deformed everything.'" [Did you know that "dancing revolution" blogeur John Barlow was a former Cheney campaign worker? I sure didn't.]

New era is blessing for some, curse for
others (USATODAY.com)

New era is blessing for some, curse for
others (USATODAY.com) 06/29/2004 06:02 AM
USATODAY.com - The latest in a long line of antiques dealers, Khalid al-Shaikly, 26, grew up knowing that at any moment Saddam Hussein's loot-hungry regime might seize everything and throw his family in jail. Every transaction with foreigners was watched. The business survived but could never thrive.

Aboriginal Woman Puts Curse on PM (AP)

Aboriginal Woman Puts Curse on PM (AP) 04/20/2004 02:01 PM
AP - An Aboriginal woman clad in possum skins put a traditional curse on Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday, apparently in retaliation for government plans to abolish Australia's top indigenous elected body.

typhoid mary, and the curse of the
customers

typhoid mary, and the curse of the
customers 09/17/2004 09:59 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefg hijk.com/ Indeed. In other news, Stelios Haji-Ioannou is starting an online music store: EasyMusic, naturally. 25pence a track, just as the Consumer's Association try to get Apple investigated for price gouging. Sure, there are...

Rolling Stone: The Curse of Dick Cheney

Rolling Stone: The Curse of Dick Cheney 09/08/2004 10:46 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: "D" sez: This profile of Cheney is frightening. The only hope it offers is that every President to have Cheney involved in its adminitration has failed to be re-elected.

I knew the guy was bad, but if all the allegations in this article are true, he's singlehandedly hamstrung all the offices of the military and intelligence in the US:

Over at Defense, competent intelligence professionals were purged in order to ease the way to war. Douglas Feith, brought in under Rumsfeld to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy, applied an ideological test to his staff: He didn't want competence; he wanted fervor. Col. Pat Lang, a Middle East expert who served under five presidents, Republican and Democratic, in key posts in military intelligence, recalls being considered for a job at the Pentagon. During the job interview, Feith scanned Lang's impressive resume. "I see you speak Arabic," Feith said. When Lang nodded, Feith said, "Too bad," and dismissed him.

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Seth's Blog: The Curse of Great
Expectations

Seth's Blog: The Curse of Great
Expectations 06/01/2004 09:46 PM
The Curse of Great Expectations .. bestweblog entry yet .. challenges

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Robot Work Force: A Blessing or a Curse?

Robot Work Force: A Blessing or a Curse? 10/30/2003 11:57 PM
Marshall Brain is stirring up more controversy. Roland Piquepaille notes in his blog that while Brain's last article "Robotic Nation" warned that robots could displace the human workforce causing massive unemployment, now he has done a 180 and is promoting the idea as a Utopian ideal he calls "Robotic Freedom". Imagine a world in which robots do all the work and humans are all on permanent vacation (government welfare). Everyone will become a creative artist and be happy, right? Marshall is a little late in stumbling onto these ideas. Science Fiction readers have been pondering this sort of thing for half a century. And if anyone, including Brain, actually believes "Robotic Freedom" is a good idea, they should read Jack Williamson's 1947 story, With Folded Hands and be very, very afraid. "To serve and obey and guard men from harm..."

Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind

Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind 04/07/2005 02:33 AM
All over Nairobi, Kenya, thin plastic bags littered by consumers are piling up into little mountains of disease.

It's Ray Lewis vs. the curse on 'Madden
NFL 2005' cover

It's Ray Lewis vs. the curse on 'Madden
NFL 2005' cover 05/07/2004 07:13 PM
USA Today May 7 2004 10:43PM GMT

Explanation of "winner's curse" in
upcoming Google IPO auction

Explanation of "winner's curse" in
upcoming Google IPO auction 05/03/2004 11:35 PM
An economics professor explains how the psychology behind bidding on things for investment reasons tends to limit the amount of the high bid.

Google intends to sell shares of itself through an auction in which Google stock is sold to those willing to pay the most per share.  This means, for example, that if only 20% of the bidders end up with Google stock, these 20% will consist of people who bid the most for Google.  Now, if you end up being one of these "lucky" 20% should you worry that the winner's curse has stricken you since you apparently valued the stock at an amount greater than what most investors believed Google to be worth?  

Rational investors will take the winner's curse into account when making a bid.  For example, assume that before the auction you think a share of Google is worth $100.  But you figure that if you end up being a winner in the auction it means that most investors think Google is worth less than $100.  So, the act of winning will cause you to think Google is worth only $80 a share.  You should, therefore, bid no higher than $80, an amount diminished by the winner's curse.

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HI jess, of curse u can send: JUst
create new message, clic

HI jess, of curse u can send: JUst
create new message, clic 08/09/2004 04:21 AM
TechTree Aug 9 2004 8:58AM GMT

Aborigines Put Black Curse on Prime
Minister (Reuters)

Aborigines Put Black Curse on Prime
Minister (Reuters) 04/20/2004 09:57 AM
Reuters - Aborigines invoked an ancient curse on Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday by "pointing the bone" at the conservative politician to protest against his decision to scrap a top aboriginal body.

Virtual Devils Curse Internet Church
(Reuters)

Virtual Devils Curse Internet Church
(Reuters) 05/19/2004 10:40 AM
Reuters - The world's first Internet church has fallen victim to a plague of virtual demons, some of whom have been logging on as Satan and unleashing strings of expletives during sermons.

At some point, people who receive them
for Christmas often ask, 'Is this
computer a gift or a curse?'

At some point, people who receive them
for Christmas often ask, 'Is this
computer a gift or a curse?' 12/27/2004 06:44 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 27 2004 11:19AM GMT

MusicMatch issues official support curse
for iPod users

MusicMatch issues official support curse
for iPod users 11/04/2003 05:20 AM
iTunes - meet Recycle Bin

One-Line Film Review: "Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"

One-Line Film Review: "Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl": To paraphrase from the movie itself, Johnny Depp is both the best and worst pirate I've ever seen, an inspired performance worthy of my $8.00 in and of itself.

P.s. It took me a while to place Keira Knightley from Bend It Like Beckham.

"Wesley Clark is the most recent member
of those running for President to curse
in a public forum."

"Wesley Clark is the most recent member
of those running for President to curse
in a public forum." 12/22/2003 04:17 PM

Wesley Clark is the most recent member
of those running for President to curse
in a public forum

Wesley Clark is the most recent member
of those running for President to curse
in a public forum 12/22/2003 05:31 AM
GENERAL CLARK ON C-SPAN: 'I'll beat the s--- out of them' .. Betternot mess with Clark .. salts up his speech

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Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors
Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes'
Uproar (Editor and Publisher)

Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors
Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes'
Uproar (Editor and Publisher) 09/15/2004 07:39 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The current controversy over the validity of documents pushed in large part by bloggers and purporting to prove that President Bush received special treatment in the National Guard shows that partisan Internet pundits are having a growing impact on mainstream press, for better or worse, according to several newspaper editors.
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