Archive for November, 2007

Nov 27 2007

The death of e-mail

Published by Bob Beela under Blogs, Technology

Chad Lorenz wrote in Slate an article about the “Death of e-mail”. It was picked up by Thomas Hawk on his blog who celebrated it this development and said:
And I read this article and can’t help but keep muttering inside, “Yes. Yes! YES!!!! Die email die!”
Increasingly email is playing a smaller and smaller role in [...]

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Nov 26 2007

Amazon Kindle

Published by Bob Beela under Tablet PC, Technology

Robert Scoble has published his one-week review of the Amazon Kindle. The Amazon Kindle is an eBook Reader much like the Sony Reader and the iLaid from iRex Technologies.
Of the six comments Robert has, some of them are legit but most of them show that he is looking at this too much from a PC [...]

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Nov 18 2007

Apple sucks!

Published by Bob Beela under Blogs, Technology

I am a regular reader of Robert Scoble’s blog since he popped up on the Microsoft Channel 9 website. Last Saturday he wrote a most amusing piece about the “Brand promise of Apple” and how, in his view, does not match up with the promise.
Apple’s promises:

Apple will always work,
Everybody can use an Apple,
Apple is better [...]

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Nov 17 2007

Fuck you Adam Curry!

Published by Bob Beela under Podcasting

Great website (http://www.fuckyouadamcurry.com).
Some guy started a new website on which he is going to post his comments on the podcast of Adam Curry. His beef is that Adam is always complaining about how busy he is and that he hardly has time to make his “daily source code” show.
The dude is right. The show is [...]

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Nov 14 2007

McLaren bashing continues

Published by Bob Beela under Formula 1, News

Bernie Ecclestone warns FIA over title reversal
If a formula 1 car uses a front wing which does not comply with the regulations then the results are scrapped. If a car uses full which does not comply with the regulations then nothing should happen?

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Nov 08 2007

Chicken gone bankrupt

Published by Bob Beela under News

The manufacturer of the Kip caravan has gone bankrupt due to bad results in Belgium where other models (Beyerland and Chateau) are made. This won’t mean that the number of caravans on the road during the summer will go down.

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Nov 02 2007

McLaren bashing continues

Published by Bob Beela under Formula 1

From the Guardian:
There was more bad news for McLaren yesterday when the FIA president Max Mosley said that not only was it unlikely that Hamilton would be crowned 2007 world champion, even if the team’s appeal against the stewards’ decision not to penalise BMW Sauber and Williams for breaching fuel regulations in the Brazilian grand [...]

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