I am so getting one of these. Before you laugh, imagine me carrying a bookbag, suitcase, carseat and baby. Or how about the time that I put all the suitcases on a cart and let the 8 year old to push the stroller. As I pushed the cart out of the elevator, the strap broke, […]
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Email etiquette is like any other kind of etiquette – it depends on what culture you are visiting. Just like table manners vary from country to country, email etiquette varies from community to community. For example, when I joined OpenLogic, I went home the first day and watched my inbox. I actually got quite worried
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I was going to write that Little Brother was a great science fiction story … and then I started wondering whether it was really science fiction or not. It takes place a year or two in the future but I think all of the technology in it is possible today. Little Brother reads like a
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Amazon has perfected one part of the sales cycle: they have made it very easy for me to give them money. Anyone selling anything should think about their models. First, they had Amazon Prime shipping. I pay $79/year. (I think it was more like $69/year when I signed up.) In exchange, when I order a
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I gave a talk at LinuxWorld called "Avoiding Open Source Lawsuits: Five Steps to Effective Open Source Governance in the Enterprise." I suppose it wasn’t the wisest title since my point was to dispell FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) not create FUD. (I borrowed the title (and a few slides) from an OpenLogic webinar, although
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Scoble just lost all his calendar events to a Mobile Me bug. He points out that: Apple’s secrecy keeps them from properly testing out their apps with tons of users, the way other companies do who aren’t so worried about secrecy. When people talk about open source software, they talk about the advantage of lots
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I’m always glad to see an article promoting "risky" play (if you can call climbing trees risky) because I think we overprotect our children. We put them in carseats, helmets, only certain cribs, only toys that pass safety ratings, only direct supervised play, only … (Warning, rant coming ahead.) I don’t know why we’ve become
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