As I am sitting at Starbucks working on my blog via their t-mobile wifi service, I start to wonder — Why shouldn’t they start selling Starbucks branded laptop and wifi related gadgets? A Starbucks thumbdrive, laptop screen cleaner, mouse, USB cables, laptop bag?
Entries from May 2004
Starbucks the Office
May 18th, 2004 · No Comments · observation
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Add to My Yahoo
May 18th, 2004 · No Comments · technology
I just noticed that My Yahoo now offers a news aggregation/reader service. You can add this blog to your my yahoo and keep up to date with what’s going on. try it!.
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Cable Organization
May 14th, 2004 · No Comments · observation
A place for everything - Cable Organizer.
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ORAC
May 12th, 2004 · No Comments · observation
Either you know what that means, or you don’t. If you do, look at this PC Case Mode.
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Winamp via the Web
May 12th, 2004 · No Comments · review
Want to control your winamp via a web browser? Install the WAWI plug-in. It works with the new Winamp 5 as well. I have been looking for something like this for a while. There is the httpQ plug-in which let you talk to winamp via http. But you still need to write some code. The [...]
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Gateway Terrace Pictures
May 9th, 2004 · No Comments · pictures
I have put up construction pictures for Gateway Terrace, a new loft community in Boston, here. Fun to watch as the construction progresses.
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Minority Super Achievers
May 7th, 2004 · No Comments · review
Just finished watching two very different movies on DVD. Both are not very well publicized when they came out, but are well worth watching. One is set in London looking at lifes of illegal immigrants, with a murder mystery.. The other one is set in California looking lifes of Asian teenagers, with a murder…
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Polychronic
May 5th, 2004 · No Comments · managing
Inc. Magazine has an article on Time Management. It talks about corporate rythm(s). Some companies are monochronic, 9-5 M-F, some are polychronic. My company is very much a polychronic company. There are multiple rhythms in different periodicies. Time zones differences between our international offices dictates the daily rhythm. Different holiday schedules between countries dictates the [...]
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Google’s Owner’s Manual
May 1st, 2004 · No Comments · reading
I find Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s Owner’s Manual for Google inspiring. This is included in their S1 filling with the SEC. Download and read it.
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Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does [...]
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