Archive for January, 2005

Thoughts about iPaq h6315?

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

I am thinking of buying this phone, but I can’t make up my mind. If anyone has experience with this model, I would love some feedback.
For context, I already am using the T-Mobile Pocket PC phone for a number of years. I have evaluated all of the ?Smart Phone? phones and think they are yucky; [...]

The Problem with nofollow

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

As the blogosphere toasts itself over the collaboration that went into nofollow, I can’t help thinking that it’s way too soon to declare victory.
Dare points out that it was a bug for vendors to assume that all links are links of positive mention. But the point is that an href never provided any additional [...]

XBox World Domination

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

From the recent press release: ?Smashing previously established records, the Xbox Live community has logged a record-breaking 91 million hours playing “Halo 2″ since the title’s launch — more than any other Xbox Live game in the two-year history of the service. In addition, the instantly immersive gameplay has resulted in close to 61 million [...]

End of Candor

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Seth Godin is great, because he’s just as eager and evangelical when he’s wrong as when he’s right. He’s raising the red flags like a modern-day Paul Revere, ?YOU CAN’T TRUST BLOGS, THE CIA MIGHT WRITE ONE!!!? He’s wants to make sure that you know your expectations are about to change, and that he was [...]

Lazy Germans

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

The average German works about 2.5 hours per calendar day. The link has more analysis about lazy Germans in general, but I am more interested in the related issue: do you know how much productive work you do each day? Time, like money, is a resource which you spend largely at your discretion. To maximize [...]