by Tom | Aug 18, 2004 | Reading
An interesting examination of how you might wind up (and wind down) a jury and why the McDonalds coffee burns damages case was an abberation in McCoffee burns. Very lawyer-focused, but interesting nonetheless.
by Tom | Jul 31, 2004 | Reading
Boris Akunin from Wikipedia. Just read the first one and it’s very good. So why did they translate the first and then the third of his books and not the second yet?
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | Reading
It’s bad news for component and chip manufacturers because convergence is happening around cell phones, and they’re mostly given away. This isn’t the case for the iPod, for example, but must be true for simple digital cameras and mp3 players.
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | Reading
Good Experience looks a the end of mainstream advertising for certain companies. As an example, Amazon does very little advertising, but spends the amount it might have to on advertising on continually extending the customer experience and value they deliver. As the...
by Tom | Jul 30, 2004 | IT
Throwing Tables Out the Window shows that Microsoft could reduce its bandwidth costs by 329 Terabytes per year by using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)-based layout. Amazing.