Washington Post: Memo: Laws Didn’t Apply to Interrogators. The White House has finally released the John Yoo memo that dismantled the rule of law to Congress. Philadelphia Daily News: NFL Films is taking shots. It’s sad but not surprising that NFL Films is falling out of favor with the NFL. This is one of those decisions [...]
Links for April 2nd
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · business, databases, economics, facebook, funny, human rights, law, links, Microsoft, mysql, photos, social networking, software development, sports
Microsoft Office XML
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Back in December 2006, Andrew Shebanow commented on the difficulty of creating a converter for Microsoft’s Office 2007 document format, which uses XML after Bob Sutor of IBM called it a one-way format due to its complexity. Based on some numbers posted a Microsoft explaining why it would take longer to release a converter for [...]
Tags: · Microsoft, standards, XML
Will the Microsoft/Yahoo merger lead to innovation?
February 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Is it just me or does the Microsoft/Yahoo merger stand to foster a lot of innovation on the Web by driving away many of the smartest people at Yahoo and perhaps even some of the smart people at Microsoft? How many startups will be created by former employees of those companies, and how many startups [...]
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Thoughts on Microsoft and Yahoo
February 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
My first impression of Microsoft’s $44 billion offer for Yahoo is that this is one of those big mergers that’s doomed to tedium, if not failure. It sort of reminds me of HP buying out Compaq. What was the end result other than some people getting a lot richer and a bunch of other people [...]