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Richard Branson Loves Me

December 16, 2005

Talk about bizarre e-mail marketing. I just got the following e-mail from Virgin Atlantic, which I think I've flown once in my life. My comments have been inserted...in bold.

Dear Tracey,

Has a phone call from Richard Branson been on your holiday wish list as long as you can remember?� [No, never...not even that time I took all that cough medicine with codeine.]� Whether you've been naughty or nice this year, your wish is about to be granted - he's waiting by the phone! [Why?

Assault On English

December 14, 2005

Video On News Web Sites

December 12, 2005

"Podcast" Officially A Word

December 7, 2005

Corporate IT's Downfall?

November 30, 2005

A column by The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein discusses the increasingly popularity of the idea that the large IT infrastructures maintained by most large companies today will become unnecessary. Just as in the early days of electricity, when companies generated their own power until an advisor to Thomas Edison pointed out that better economies of scale could be achieved by centralizing electricity generation, allowing companies to share it off a centralized grid (and thus giving birth to the first public electric utility company), some IT industry visionaries are endorsing this method for the future of corporate information technology.

By sharing centralized IT resources, companies could pay for only what they use and radically lower their administration budgets.

Find the column here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/29/AR2005112901096.html?nav=hcmodule

Extraterrestrial Domain Registration

November 15, 2005

Do you have all the URLs you need to properly conduct your business? Do you have your product names all covered? Do you have a better URL than your competitors?

Good.

Sony Suspends Controversial Anti-Pirating System

November 14, 2005

Sarbanes-Oxley Keeps Us Honest

October 24, 2005

Nigeria Outlaws Spamming

October 14, 2005

I'm An Oil Millionaire!

October 6, 2005

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