Archive for March, 2007

A Clue for Chris Locke

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Chris Locke, one of the authors of Cluetrain Manifesto, allowed his forums to devolve into very personal and graphic sexual harassment.  His attempt to clear his name falls short.
It’s great that he actually decided to engage in the conversation.  And it is understandable that he feels like an “angry mob” is engaging in “character assasaination”.
But Chris […]

Tribalism and Evangelism

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Jon Udell talks about being an evangelist, and opines that tribalism may have evolutionary roots, but is more trouble than it’s worth today.
Robin Dunbar and Matt Ridley both have books that discuss theories on the evolutionary roots of tribalism.  Once you get beyond the size of a clan (the natural size of population of all living […]

Not Just Death Threats

Monday, March 26th, 2007

I, too, was sickened to read about Kathy at C.P.U. being harassed and threatened.  I think Scoble gets it exactly right.  This isn’t just about death threats — and it’s our fault for not speaking up more when this was happening in the Anshe Chung case.
Scum like this watched the Anshe Chung case carefully.  And […]

Playing Halo Makes You Like a Girl

Friday, March 16th, 2007

This new study shows that people who play first-person shooters develop a better ability to discriminate small objects in cluttered spaces.  Women are naturally good at this, which explains why they don’t need to play Halo 2.  On the other hand, ability to remember where caches are (like caches of nuts or weapons) is a male […]

Windows Server 2003 SP2 deleting browscap.ini?

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

There have been reports of Windows Server 2003 SP2 overwriting browscap.ini on machines with new versions of the file.  If you have an updated browscap.ini, you should back up the file before installing SP2, and then copy it back after installing SP2.  If you are arriving at this page because your browscap.ini was already deleted, […]