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more on my failures
more on my failures
03/14/2005 05:51 PMAttention to Mr. Orlowski has apparently waned, so his trash is
back. You might not get this from his article,
but even though he states "[t]his week Trudeau has turned his
attention to the 'Creative Commons' project," in fact, Trudeau does
not mention "Creative Commons" at all. Indeed, for anyone who knows
anything about what Creative Commons is trying to do, no doubt
Thudpucker is a funny character but his views have little to do with
mine, or
CC's.
And as for the project that has "failed to gain much traction," we
were surprised (and pleased) to see this week that the
Yahoo linkback
search to Creative Commons licenses is now over 10,000,000. If
that's right, then we were at 1,000,000 link backs in a year,
5,000,000 in two, and now over 10,000,000 in 2 1/2. Imagine what we
could have done had we only gotten some "traction."
But the best part of reading
this article is that it advertises at the bottom
"related articles," including
this. I am astonished that The Register continues to
carry this trash (or, for that matter, its author). As I told them
then, the article is a lie. Not mistaken, but a lie: a knowing
falsehood, published, and published still. Such is the nature of the
writer, and apparently the publication.
Top 10 Mac Failures
Top 10 Mac Failures
02/01/2005 09:08 PMTop 10 Mac Failures: An
interesting look at Apple miscues. Among them, the Flower Power/Blue
Dalmation iMac and my personal choice of unforgiveable design, the
round mouse.
Users were not universally pleased with the new mouse. It
was now totally symmetrical, preventing many users from easily telling
which way is up. Also, the smaller design made it difficult for large
handed users to use it comfortably.
Man, I hate those round mice.
You know what's not in here? The Newton, which supports my
theory of a few weeks ago.
As for the patterned iMac, the whole colored-machine thing was
flawed from the beginning. I worked at Best Buy in 1998 when the iMac
hit the market. Best Buy was apparently told that they couldn't order
more or less of one color — they could only place an order for a
set number of iMacs, and they'd get an equal division of each color in
the shipment.
Consequently, one of the biggest electronic retailers in the
country dropped the iMac from its shelves, and it's never returned
(not that it hurt Apple much...). The colors should have been snap-on
shells, so you could swap them out if you ever got sick of them.
But, in the end, the color served its purpose. Think back to the
original iMac and what do you remember? All-in-one design, no floppy,
and colored cases. The last item on that list was what got all the
press. Would the iMac be where it is today if they had all been in
beige cases? Not a chance.
On Hardware Failures
On Hardware Failures
01/01/2004 02:15 AMOne of the computer industry's dirty little secrets is hardware
failure. The few of us who work in, near, or otherwise around large
computer installations take this for granted. Companies like Yahoo
have people on staff that spend a lot of their time dealing with
failing memory, buggy motherboards, smoked power supplies, bad disks,
and overheating CPUs. Google, from what I read, doesn't even bother
anymore. But the larger world probably doesn't see this very often.
Many are likely just...
Computer failures hit MFI
Computer failures hit MFI
09/09/2004 06:48 PMTelegraph Sep 9 2004 11:31PM GMT
Computer Failures
Computer Failures
06/10/2004 01:31 AMWashington Post Jun 10 2004 5:25AM GMT
Government divide key to pre-9/11
failures
Government divide key to pre-9/11
failures
04/11/2004 05:07 PM9/11 panel to study failures of CIA, FBI
9/11 panel to study failures of CIA, FBI
04/14/2004 10:23 AMReport: FireWire Failures
Report: FireWire Failures
06/02/2004 10:32 AMLaCie hints at problems with certain Macintosh models and Firewire
drives, while Mac OS X 10.3.4 solves one problem....
Notes and Tips: ".Mac" Failures
Notes and Tips: ".Mac" Failures
06/18/2004 11:12 AMReaders report extended mail outages with ".Mac".
You can't distract us from your
failures, Karl
You can't distract us from your
failures, Karl
06/24/2005 07:53 PMHere is an excellent response to the odious, abhorrent and evil Karl
Rove from Kristen Breirweiser, who was married to one of the 9/11
victims....
Other News: Learning from Failures
Other News: Learning from Failures
09/14/2004 11:23 AMGreat inventors like Steve Wozniak and Dean Kamen learn from lots of
failures.
Technology's 10 most inexcusable
failures
Technology's 10 most inexcusable
failures
04/12/2005 06:14 AMZDNet's David Berlind has his dander up about half-baked technologies
that still don't do what they're supposed to.
Government Divide Key to Pre-9/11
Failures (AP)
Government Divide Key to Pre-9/11
Failures (AP)
04/11/2004 01:20 PMAP - The legal wall that for years divided FBI intelligence and
criminal agents is blamed largely for the government's failure to
grasp the threat posed by al-Qaida inside the United States before the
2001 attacks.
Project failures are less common than
you think
Project failures are less common than
you think
01/03/2003 02:50 AMCNET Jan 3 2003 1:02AM ET
Where We are Heading
Where We are Heading
03/08/2004 11:18 PMFrank Rich:
Mel Gibson
Forgives Us for His Sins.
The vilification of Jews by Mr.
Gibson, his film and some of his allies, unchallenged by his media
enablers, is not happening in a vacuum. We are in the midst of an
escalating election-year culture war in which those of "faith" are
demonizing so-called "secularists" (for which read any Jews critical
of Mr. Gibson and their fellow travelers, liberals). Politicians, we
are learning, seem increasingly eager to wrap themselves in "The
Passion of the Christ" as a handy signal to indicate they are opposed
to all those "secularists" whose conspiracy is undermining all that
right-thinking Americans hold near and dear.Report: FireWire Drive Failures
Report: FireWire Drive Failures
05/11/2004 09:12 AMHere's what you can to to avoid FireWire drive problems... or recover
from them.
10.3: A workaround for VirtualPC
printing failures
10.3: A workaround for VirtualPC
printing failures
12/08/2003 11:45 AMI have an aviation program that provides instrument approach charts
and it only runs on Windows. I needed to print out chart updates today
and ran into a major problem: printing to my printers on the local
network wasn't work...
Technology Failures in History, Today
Technology Failures in History, Today
08/04/2004 06:26 PMJohn Dvorak rattles off a list of the Ten Worst Laptops in History and
says: We need a publicly maintained resource — such as a wiki —
detailing the history some of these old machines. So I obliged him,
and...
Failures of vision corrective surgery.
Failures of vision corrective surgery.
02/01/2005 09:59 PM
Surgical Eyes - source of
info about complications and their treatment from Lasik and other
vision correction surgeries.
Disputing Municipal Network Failures
Disputing Municipal Network Failures
03/19/2005 02:24 AM
The
folks at Tricitybroadband.com have a page that refutes
failures: Many of the anti-municipal networking foes have
released misinformation about what they describe as financially flawed
or failed networks around the U.S. Unfortunately, although there are
certainly municipal services that haven't worked out--there have to be
some failures--the ones that are bandied about are typically
misrepresented. Tricitybroadband.com has a regularly updated page that
provides the official response and financial details refuting this
misinformation.
The point here would be to work with facts: if the facts that the
utilities, cities, or Tricitybroadband is presenting are incorrect,
then other facts could refute them. We could have, say, a real debate
going in which real information was presented, examined, and
conclusions reached.
Notes and Tips: iMac G5 Failures
Notes and Tips: iMac G5 Failures
03/17/2005 02:51 AMOwen Linzmayer gets burned by bad capacitors in a 20" iMac G5, while
an IEEE article covered a widespread capacitor disaster.
Iraq: Intel Failures On the Road to War
Iraq: Intel Failures On the Road to War
07/11/2004 06:39 AMMSNBC Jul 11 2004 9:22AM GMT
PowerBook Display Failures Come to Light
PowerBook Display Failures Come to Light
05/03/2004 12:27 PMNotes and Tips: G5 Failures vs. Delays
Notes and Tips: G5 Failures vs. Delays
08/16/2004 10:09 AMIs there an engineering or production problem with G5 Power Macs?
Notes and Tips: iBook Failures
Notes and Tips: iBook Failures
02/19/2004 11:22 AMApple's warranty extension killed one class-action suit, but people
with failures outside Apple's coverage limits can sign up for another
one.
G.O.P. Blames Clinton for Intelligence
Failures
G.O.P. Blames Clinton for Intelligence
Failures
07/21/2004 12:42 PMPolitical haggling over the conclusions of the Sept. 11 commission,
due out on Thursday, has begun in earnest.
Microsoft battles against security
failures
Microsoft battles against security
failures
07/06/2004 06:42 AMComputer Weekly Jul 6 2004 11:04AM GMT
9/11 Panel Chronicles U.S. Failures
(washingtonpost.com)
9/11 Panel Chronicles U.S. Failures
(washingtonpost.com)
07/22/2004 11:14 PMwashingtonpost.com - The U.S. government was utterly unprepared on
Sept. 11, 2001, to protect the American people from al Qaeda
terrorists, who outwitted and outmaneuvered a bureaucracy that had
never seriously addressed them as a threat and had never fathomed the
possibility of such a calamitous assault on U.S. soil, according to a
searing account of failures and missteps released yesterday.
Heading South
Heading South
01/03/2004 05:52 PM
When we decided to move to Finland one of the agreed upon features
was that each year, budget permitting, we would take a Winter holiday
somewhere the sun makes more of an appearance than glow occasionally
on the horizon on the rare day that it's not cloudy. People always ask
about the cold but the cold isn't the hard part of living in
Scandinavia in the Winter, it's the darkness. November was a really
hard month as the darkness really settles into your
brain.
It's that time of year to go on holiday and I'm looking forward
to reacting like a Sleestack to the evil, unfamiliar daystar and
getting to know the cocktail boy poolside for a luxurious 7 days in
Madeira. I'm going to also enjoy 7 days of internet-free living while
hiking and taking pictures. It may be hard getting on the plane for
the return trip. :)
Why Detroit is heading to the web
Why Detroit is heading to the web
09/01/2004 06:16 AMInternetRetailer.com Sep 1 2004 10:44AM GMT
Heading to SXSW
Heading to SXSW
03/14/2005 04:24 PMI'll be at SXSW
this year after an absence of a couple years. My goals this year are
to not get food poisoning and to be fully present at both the panels
I'm participating in (I was slated to do a keynote but got bumped by
Gladwell...whaddya gonna do?):
If you're at the conference, amble up and say hi...but be warned
that I might ask you for
money (not really, I'm just kidding [sadly, he's not just
kidding, but was about the Gladwell thing -ed]).
Heading into faggotland...
Heading into faggotland...
08/06/2004 04:54 PM
Babyface: A Times Square Odyssey "This interactive web
piece about the Babyfaces of Times Square takes place in the past,
when the center city was a clash of classes rather than today's
funeral of a theme park controlled by middle class undertakers."
This is definitely not safe for work (drugs, porn, men
in bathroom stalls), but if you want to remember the seedier side of
NYC, this is one way to do it. "But at least they're heading in the
right direction:"
"But at least they're heading in the
right direction:"
01/26/2004 03:04 PMHeading Home Soon
Heading Home Soon
12/19/2003 11:56 AMIn a few days I'll begin what's become an annual ritual since I moved
to California almost exactly 4 years ago: going home for the holidays.
Just writing this now, I'm wondering if the day will ever come that I
don't consider Toledo, Ohio to be "home" instead of where I'm
currently living. Do I have to spend more time away than the 25ish
years that I lived there? Or maybe I just need to "settle down and get
married"?...
WH Smith heading for CEO pay row
WH Smith heading for CEO pay row
01/29/2004 03:49 AMThe retailer's annual meeting could be a stormy affair with some
shareholders set to vote against the new chief executive's £2.6m pay
package.
Where the Net Is Heading in 2004
Where the Net Is Heading in 2004
12/22/2003 07:48 PMHowever, a new wave of startups is also taking aim at Google -- as
well as at Yahoo, the two search leaders (see BW Online, 12/16/03,
"Google Here, There, and ...
Where is Transmeta Heading?
Where is Transmeta Heading?
04/02/2005 01:23 PMHeading Order
Heading Order
07/19/2004 11:08 AMWhat's up
with heading order? Tomas Jogin wants to know. A "Web Standards
Solutions" Q&A session if there ever was one.
Heading to PC Forum
Heading to PC Forum
04/09/2004 04:12 PMNext stop in the Technorati speaking tour: PC Forum.
I'll be presenting the company on Monday afternoon - a real honor
(go to the bottom of the page). We've got some fun new stuff to show off, and I'm
tremendously excited to meet the stellar list of attendees Esther and
Daphne always bring in. The big news this year is that that CNET has
acquired Edventure Holdings, the company that puts on PC Forum - kudos
to Esther, Daphne, Christina, and the team, and my hat goes off to
Shelby and the folks at CNET - smart move! (Full disclosure: Esther
Dyson is an investor in Technorati)
Golf, anyone?
I'll be heading out to Scottsdale this afternoon, so drop me a line
at dsifry at technorati dot com if you
are going to be in Scottsdale and are interested in hooking up for a
late dinner tonight or golf Sunday morning. I'm not a great golfer,
but I'm not a complete duffer - so anyone who enjoys a nice walk on a
big manicured lawn along with some interesting conversation, send an
email or leave a message at my room at the hotel.
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