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Not "Horsing" Around

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:35:19 -0400

I guess you can now safely say that organizations that make that leap of faith to use StarOffice are truly not "horsing around".

Check here for a really good ad running in Japan.

Microsoft can roll out countless studies that point out how proprietary software is cheaper and more practical than open source code. But how can Microsoft counter open source software's ability to make a Japanese woman give birth to a horse in a convenience store?

a cold one..far far away..

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 01:18:23 -0400

Its kind of like having a cool Guinness, behind glass..heck..its there..and you can drink it..but don't dare touch it.Reminds me of an old Pinto I used to own.."nice car..hows it drive?" me"I don't know,it won't let me drive it"

Good News?

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:09:43 -0400

Hey Gary - you see, you ol' cynic you :-)

Here is relief for those still using IE - MS hasn't fixed the problem but they are offering a way to disable your browser from this specific attack. How great is that, IE users are safe again at least until tomorrow morning.

:-)

Surprise ending

garym — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:06:48 -0500

If you haven't already clicked through to check it out, which is what most people did, then you don't yet know that while this seemed a really good idea, it turned out to be a really good illegal idea: In Ontario, according to the Real Estate Board, it is illegal to relay information about properties for sale without a license. You can't tell your neighbour about them, you can't write articles about them, you can't show someone the picture you found on a public website, and you can't even quote what the real estate agents themselves say about the properties.

Whether or not this is a Good Thing or a Totally Brainless way of doing business online is not mine to say. What I can say is that I will personally never trust a real estate agent to market my property online, and I can tell you about the stats which show BLOG the BOB skyrocket up through our weblogs in just three days attracting several hundred page reads per day by the end of the third day.

That's with no media splash, no announcements other than one email (foolishly) to the real estate agents and to the economic development office. This was purely the effect of the blog ecology and if you ask me, it was a roaring success. We proved without a doubt that, when propelled by a constant stream of content that appeals to the audience, the blogroll ping and RSS ecology is a powerful sales channel.

too bad it was illegal.