Saturday, February 21, 2009

Checks Marked "INF" (Insufficient Funds)



Although this speech has been renamed as "I have a Dream" it is actually titled "Checks marked Insufficient Funds" (or "Cheques..." if your Canadian like I). The history of this speech, which some consider one of the greatest ever given, is quite interesting. Specifically the second half of this speech actually was improvised and taken from another speech he did earlier at Freedom Hall. So he essentially took two speech and joined them on the fly to give us this truely remarkable moment in history. As great as Obama is at speaking, when we see and hear this great speech it makes one see how truely great MLK2 really was. Of course, comparing anyone to this speech is not really fair. Anyway, I've made a point of trying to understand how MLK2 spoke and every time I hear him, he always inspires. And that, is inspiring.

Sunday, February 08, 2009

Microsoft's Nightmare

So it seems Microsoft has been having nightmares. Check out the story here. Apparently Microsoft is retaliating against Intel (yes, the chip company) in order to abolish GNU/Linux. After all a major company donating hundreds of millions to further develop a competition they already consider series is a nightmare....

... at least for Microsoft.

But not for the rest of the world.

Update: Apparently Microsoft is looking to hire a Director of Open Source Desktop strategy:

The Windows Competitive Strategy team is looking for a strong team member to lead Microsoft's global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.


Read here to get a better informed (yet short) take. Mine? They are fighting GNU/Linux hard because they don't want to lose. And that is relevant because one only worries when they think it is a real possibility. I'm going to endeavour to add to their nightmare.

2nd Update: Here's an interesting take on the on MS from a former insider (or at least someone who claims to be, and upon some look into it, may be credible). He's commenting on their evilness here. Sometimes it blows my mine how easy it is to intensely dislike them.

As you read the second one (it is very long)... wow. One speaker even asks "how do you sleep at night?" It's great how he validates using the stroke her (an insider of Apple) husband had to help himself promote MS. He actually "helped" (a so called "friend") so that she would in turn put a MS talk in a Mac conference. And the more I read the more I'm beginning to think that this company help Uncle Screwtape write his letters. Even I couldn't have guessed how bad these guys are.



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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Perfect Comic

http://xkcd.com/528/



And funny as hel-- umm..  heck...
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Ethics & CEOs



A very interesting and practical suggestion. Would help a lot of peoples and situations. So you can see why this video was selected as winner of the World Economic Forum. I know I can. Watch it.