Monday, 15 February 2010

when you get real big

How I love the capitalist system - IBM used to be so big that it had to compete with itself. Now it's Google's turn, as Farhad Manjoo tells it on Slate.
Micro$oft's needs (and methods) are different - they'd want to convert Window XP sheep into Windows Insert Name Here sheep so they can keep rakin' in the loot. Monopoly, anyone?

Monday, 8 February 2010

the question

Are we obsessed, or just d'oh...

                            ...and `hacking' is frighteningly popular.

EDIT: the other point of view -