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When I saw this recent headline Aruba to buy ‘Switzerland of network management’, I cringed and knew I had to share this tiny rant.
Too many people in technology want to be “Switzerland.”
Nothing against the Swiss or their beautiful country, but this terrible shorthand needs to expire. No one should aim for that position, even if [...]

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I didn’t have any excitement about moving to Mac OS X 10.4.11, especially since Safari 3 was a required part of the update. I’m happy to say that Safari 3 has improved cookie management, nearly catching up with Firefox and Opera. I can finally search within the thousands of cookies and easily remove just the [...]

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This weekend, I read Happy Blogiversary, the Wall Street Journal’s review of 10 years of blogging. I found it first online, pointed to by Scott Karp because Dick Costolo cited Publishing 2.0 as one of his favorites.
Skimming it over the weekend, via satellite broadband, the video vignettes embedded in the piece wouldn’t play…the player told [...]

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Confirmation of the rumors started with typical Dick Costolo panache: “Unlike the rumor that FeedBurner is nearly code-complete on a multiplayer Wii edition, the blog posts, phone calls and conjecture about our future as part of the Google family tree are now officially true.”
What a great team and a great product. I first met Dick [...]

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You know how it’s hard to write something brief sometimes?
We’ve worked hard to make shortcuts come alive.
The power of DNS just got a lot easier to explain. Sure, you don’t need to care about DNS itself, but shortcuts are something you can see, something you can use…almost something you can touch. After improving life behind [...]

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Update: I was burned by the April Fool’s Joke. If you can’t pull it on April 1, I don’t know if it counts… but oh well.
The acquisition of F**ckedCompany.com by TechCrunch makes some sense. Still, Mike Arrington might want to reconsider this quote.
That does not bode well for the future - there just isn’t anything [...]

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Last week, the boy wanted to make Inca masks. I told him we might find something on the Internet, so he typed away. Didn’t get a great response from the Safari address bar, but I think he’s starting to get the idea. Note: I never did find useful instructions for such a craft project, [...]

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I have not yet turned Growl back on, but Growl was not the problem. I took the iMac G5 into the Genius Bar last Saturday night (yes, I’m that much fun), for the second trip in three days.
Good news, though, was that I left the computer there that night, and had it back, free of [...]

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Update, March 17th The sleep problem reoccured, and now it’s gotten worse: the computer won’t start up. Heading back to the Genius Bar tonight.
I suppose the good news is that maybe after all this is solved, I can turn on Growl again, since it’s not longer clear that was the (only) problem.

It took [...]

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I mentioned the previous printer’s untimely failure. It’s been replaced. Did some research online, but the real part of the process was seeing what Office Max had in stock, then coming home and doing some research, and then blitzing into the store to make the pick.
I wanted the Brother HL 2040, but the only one [...]

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