I remember reading that book a long time ago and keep thinking about how a lot of his predictions are now coming true. Hate him or love him but the guy sure had business insight.

Great idea. I've been looking for something to do with my eMac for a while now. Does anybody have any novel uses for theirs?

Everything was hyped up to be the next killer app. Console game systems. Programs that ran on Windows boxes. Sigh.

By "Eclipse" you mean the IDE and not the movie, right :-)

I think Facebook is starting to become the de facto "people management" platform for individuals. If you like RSS it's basically turned into RSS for human beings, corporations, music artists, blogs, and so on. I think there is an incredible amount of data they have there on those groups and potentially stand to make a killing if they try to marry that with ad revenue. It beat Google for the most visited site last year somehow so it seems to be one of the stickier websites around that aren't related to search or email.

The longer I'm alive the less this makes sense to me. With all the publicity around players selling their awards (Ohio State Buckeyes) and agents getting involved with players in college (Reggie Bush) for day-to-day money think the goals of the athletes in college basketball and football are at odds with the rest of the campus.

So why don't we stop pretending that the athletes in those sports are there to get a degree in liberal arts or engineering? They should start a secondary pre-professional league where these kids can go test the waters, get good training, and provide higher-quality sports entertainment. They could be traded and not get busted for trying to make subsistence money. If they find out it's not for them then they can always choose to go back and enter college if it's right for them.

I was thinking about possible solutions to this like if you receive a cluster of messages temporally or geospatially then you can further investigate it. But text messages are so cheap that a bunch of people could coordinate a prank on 911 easily. After reading the article I think that this will probably be a good thing in the long run and that allowing texts (tweets?) to 911 is a valuable public service and they're going to have to make it work out somehow.

Speaking of redirects how about websites waiting to load content on Doubleclick analytics? Not only do the ads you're serving not load up but I tend to give up on visiting the page altogether. Everybody loses.

My math must be off because $1,000 for rent plus $1,000 with other expenses is at least $48,000 per year in expenses not including taxes. Unless you had money saved up before you started making $35,000 to make up the difference.

Georgia peaches in two different locations on Earth? Did they go quantum on us?

hover browsers I was promised?

Perhaps he is also in the right place at the right time. We've seen technologies happen well ahead of their time (Apple Netwon, Divx rentals) that conceptually were good but just didn't have the cheap tech to make it affordable. Or people just didn't understand it but we wouldn't think twice about it now.

Don't get me wrong I think Steve is probably a really strong leader based on what I've read. I wonder if he could have revolutionized any other consumer tech based on his willingness to not worry about quarterly earnings and to be blunt and honest with people about his vision.

Especially interesting at a Baptist university. I'm pretty ignorant as is but I never would have pegged WFU to do something this cool.

Oh yeah: ACC! ACC! ACC!