EBay, Amazon Avoid French Knot
News EBay and Amazon.com have made the same trek but have somehow managed to escape the same mistakes. users would be restricted from historical references to World War II or to items such as The Diary of Anne Frank.
[November 21, 2000, 8:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 23/09/2004Jetlagged and jagged, I turn up at Waterloo Station to trek down to Havant, where a chunk of IBM has recently transmogrified into Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Keen to let the world know that it's not just another company...
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 24/02/2003Ah, Star Trek. As the old joke has it -- how come whenever they boldy go where no man has gone before, there's always someone there? But it's getting like that down here on Earth. Once upon a time, when friends departed for a year...
[February 28, 2003, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Star Trek:TNG. Wednesday 19/10/2005 The generation game is much loved by marketers. Pepsi, the drink of the next generation. G phones. Ah yes, the phones. I don't remember anyone calling GSM phones 2G, although they were: 3G makes sense, and by the...
[October 24, 2005, 13:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Butterfly Net gets going today: it uses the Globus system to provide a robust, cheap and powerful set of tools for what they call massive multiplayer games, thousands of players in shared environments, hacking and slaying, firing their laser...
[May 29, 2002, 15:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That the core beliefs are astounding, sub-Star Trek nonsense is thus kept secret until you've already invested so much that you HAVE to believe. Thursday 21/03/2002 The Beasts of Midian are prowling round and round again.
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, I'm not sure that the overlap between open-source developers and Star Trek fans is exactly 100 percent, but it's always been a fact that the Starship Enterprise runs on some derivative of Unix -- a fact so obvious that it never needed to be...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The last echo of that was in the Star Trek joke that Shakespeare was best in the original Klingon: these days we're all pally, so we allow each other these little foibles while secretly knowing that our guy was really the first.
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It may sound like Star Trek, but people are doing it and it seems to work. Monday 27/10/2004 Primed by an exciting story in Spectrum, the online newsletter of the IEEE, I'm off sniffing out stories about odd power sources.
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog All Star Trek fans know what that means — and indeed, the red shirt count dropped dramatically as IDF progressed. Tuesday 7/3/2006 And so we hit the full-on IDF. Not so many IDFs ago, all the Intel people wore a standard uniform of khaki trousers...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The climate is conducive and the woodlands plentiful, so the local longhairs trek out into the forest, sow their seeds and return some months later to harvest the illicit wares. I don't understand markets.
[January 24, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Instead, gaze with pallid face at the Star Trek and American Car Buyer areas on MSN that the company hold out as the great hope for the future, and sigh. MSN comes in to say hello. We struggle manfully to get our guests a telephone line, and then...
[September 28, 1996, 10:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The climate is conducive and the woodlands plentiful, so the local longhairs trek out into the forest, sow their seeds and return some months later to harvest the illicit wares. I don't understand markets.
[January 24, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News Instead, gaze with pallid face at the Star Trek and American Car Buyer areas on MSN that the company hold out as the great hope for the future, and sigh. MSN comes in to say hello. We struggle manfully to get our guests a telephone line, and then...
[September 28, 1996, 9:00]
