Charles Crystle, the founder of ChiliSoft, seems like a really cool guy. He plans on giving away 11 of the 15 million dollars he made when Cobalt Networks bought ChiliSoft to provide high-tech educational opportunities to people in Central America, where he spent two months decompressing from the stress of his job not long ago.
In other high tech philanthropy news, Bob Pasker and Laurie Pitman, two of the founders of WebLogic, donated 2.4 million dollars to endow the history department at San Francisco State. It’s the largest donation to the university ever.
Here’s a great example of a solution looking for a problem. Why in the world would someone want this keyboard? How could it possibly be better than they keyboard they already have. (Perhaps the people who came up with this moronic idea don’t know that computers come with keyboards when you buy them.) The ultimate indignity is that the keyboard itself is probably of pathetic quality, offering no advantage whatsoever over the keyboards people already have.
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Jon Carroll’s column today really makes you think.