Bay Bridge Cables Snap – some inappropriate comments made
I did a quick search in Google news and found this headline, which caught my attention quickly as it could have a pejorative slant with respect to Chinese-made stuff (which I would suggest is totally wrong-headed considering the volume and…
Go and Start a Company
As my former colleague and advisor, Jerry Neumann says – there is no starting gun. Go and start a company now. It’s not as hard to get started as you think, and there is no such thing as failure.
Great Books about Randomness, Probability and Life
A few books I’ve read recently (and some not so recently) about randomness, probability, human behavior, ALL of which are worth looking at: Fooled by Randomness by Nicholas Taleb. Instant classic, the followup Black Swan is great too but this…
Siemens Breaks the Washington Post
Yikes – another newspaper site getting a bit discombobulated. This is what the Washington Post looks like today after Siemens got a hold of it…. this was in IE. Firefox looked similar so not a browser-specific issue.
The power that is Google
Great piece by Jay Weintraub borders on rant but makes very good points as he lets rip on Google. Alas it is true but there is a lot to criticize. Anytime I or any individual criticizes Google, it requires a…