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http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19845

Via Boing Boing. 

This is an absolutely brilliant article by John Hockenberry about network news and how they are just not innovating with the rest of the world, especially in terms to new media.You owe it to yourself to read this, especially if you’re into new media.

Large Hospital Software Company Switches to Linux – OSS Ramblings

While I’m not as optimistic as my buddy Tony on the increase of Linux market share, I am definitely in line with him on the decrease of Microsoft market share.  As I continue my march toward converting to an all-Mac environment at home, Windows has been relegated to not much more than a gaming console.  Even that is somewhat doomed though, as I’m starting to discover some of the newest games have outgrown this almost 4-year old PC.  That’s fine, I’ll just start gaming on the Wii and continuing on with my old games. 

Large Hospital Software Company Switches to Linux – OSS Ramblings

While I’m not as optimistic as my buddy Tony on the increase of Linux market share, I am definitely in line with him on the decrease of Microsoft market share.  As I continue my march toward converting to an all-Mac environment at home, Windows has been relegated to not much more than a gaming console.  Even that is somewhat doomed though, as I’m starting to discover some of the newest games have outgrown this almost 4-year old PC.  That’s fine, I’ll just start gaming on the Wii and continuing on with my old games. 

Here’s a memo to Microsoft: you can take the idea of a dynamic website a little too far.

Case in point: I was commenting on Herman’s blog. After signing in, Microsoft kindly filled in my details, including the blog link that I apparently inherited when signing up for Spaces. (I assure you, that was an accident).

Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be putting this web link on a business card anytime soon:

MacDailyNews – Beleaguered Napster in search of new business model as subscriptions dwindleThere’s a really good chance that other companies are watching Napster on the subscription deathbed.  As Napster’s muscles twitch, consider whether or not iTunes should adopt this model.  Now go analyze, come back with your answers.  

Upgraded to Leopard on the work laptop yesterday… yes, I said upgrade. It brought some kernel panics with it in relation to Time Machine and Parallels. I’ll write more about that later.

But initially, what do I think?

I keep clicking on shit just because it looks coooool. God does it ever. Amazing.

What fabulous news to greet my Tuesday morning – Leopard ships on October 26th!

Time to spend some serious cash 😉 Oh, wait… I don’t have any…

I was one of the engineers on the call documented here from last weekend. This was the Friday night from hell.

I won’t rehash the technical details of what happened. If you want to know the tech piece of it, head to the link. There’s no need to restate it – besides, it would bring back memories that might cause me to draw my own blood and scrawl nasty proverbs on the wall.

Happy Linux Thoughts: Reasons why I love Microsoft’s Operating sytems

Brilliant, tasty little satirical morsel for your enjoyment.

I should also file this under jealousy that this is only the fifth entry and it’s already been Dugg to the front page. Bother.

There’s a gotcha with migrating to Exchange 2007. If your enterprise is still halfway through an Office 2007 rollout (or better yet, if it’s not even begun), you should be aware that users of the delegation features in Outlook are in for trouble.

Specifically, this KB article recommends using Outlook 2007 for “delegates in Outlook 2007 to work correctly.” I can verify that if you’re in a situation where a mailbox is migrated to Exchange 2007 using Outlook 2007, the delegate on Exchange 2003 using Outlook 2003 loses all ability to do the delegated duties.