You know, I actually used to think that Rosie O’Donnell might be a fairly intelligent person. I guess not.
Entries from March 2001
March 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
March 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
I installed the IE 6 beta yesterday, and I’ve found two problems so far. One is that it forgets my toolbar settings every time I close it, so my Google toolbar and my links toolbar keep diseappearing. The second is that LaunchCast no longer works. There are supposed to be some new [...]
March 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
Remember how I slagged Peter Gammons here yesterday? For details on why Gammons sucks, check out Jonathan Vankin’s feature in the New York Press.
March 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
A federal judge has ruled that employers are entitled to read their employees’ email once it has been read by that employee. Apparently, the law protects emails from the point at which they are sent until they are read by the recipient. Once they’ve been read, they’re fair game. That’s actually more protection than [...]
March 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
My former employer is laying off 20 engineers in order to focus more on sales and marketing. My posting this link is nothing but schadenfreude at work. I actually feel bad for the friends that I have who still work there, although I’m afraid they got the last of them with this latest [...]
March 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
William Saletan has a great article about David Horowitz at Slate. In case you’re not tuned in to this, Horowitz tried to take out an ad in a bunch of college newspapers arguing against reparations for slavery, and some colleges refused to run the ad. In other cases, the newspapers that did run the ad [...]
March 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
The Merc has a story about Rob Neyer, a baseball columnest for ESPN.com who has built a significant following through his atypical writing about sports. Unlike most sportswriters, Neyer is very analytical and doesn’t give any weight to the stupid common sense crap that you hear spewed endlessly by TV “analysts.” Even better, Neyer delights [...]
March 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
This week on “Sick, Sad World”: Web developers who buy Macs so that they can use Virtual PC to test their sites using multiple versions of Internet Explorer. How long has Microsoft known that it’s a huge pain for Web developers to test their sites under IE 4, IE 5, IE 5.5, etc, ad [...]
March 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
Yesterday a reader sent a link to Apple’s own 300 page system overview for Mac OS X. Definitely worth a look if you’re into the details.
March 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
Scott Rosenberg’s take on Hailstorm seems to echo many others. He focuses on Microsoft’s offer to aggregate your personal data for a fee. Naturally, there are lots of downsides to entering into this sort of arrangement with a big company. It seems like if they really wanted to empower users, they’d provide an [...]