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My German friend Clemens said this has a ring of truth to it: Germans value letters attached to their name more than money, love or having children with nine out of ten rating a good qualification as their most important aim in life, a survey showed Wednesday. Germans prefer letters after name to love or …
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Today the SBC/AT&T merger was completed. It’s a little bizarre to think of AT&T as my local phone company, essentially having grown up after the 1984 breakup. Anyway, the new AT&T logo was also introduced today, and it’s like the old one but 3-Dified for extra spiffiness. Actually, I don’t think it’s too bad, but …
Since I and so many of my friends are turning 30 this year, I thought this New York Times article would be appropriate: Smiling Through the 30th, a Birthday Once Apocalyptic Once, turning 30 was slightly irritating, an embarrassing passage, and people were in no mood to broadcast the news. This was especially true for …
Bipartisanship is like virginity. Once lost, it’s never recovered. —Professor Bruce Cain of UC Berkeley, reacting to the challenge Governor Schwarzenegger faces, now that all eight propositions lost, including the four championed by him
Your vote probably will not change the outcome of an election. Only one congressional election and seven state legislative elections in the past 100 years have been decided by one vote — and if it’s that close, the courts are likely to get involved. So why do people vote? (Of course, if everyone thought this …
Here are a few safety warnings in the manual of my new cell phone, the LG VX6100: “Do not use your phone in high explosive areas as the phone may generate sparks.” (I personally never want to be in a high explosive area.) “Never place your phone in a microwave oven as it will cause …
As New York experiences a building boom, old signs painted on the sides of buildings are becoming even more rare.
How would you like your lakeshore backyard destroyed by a floating island crashing into it?
The San Francisco Chronicle has a profile on Arcadia Publishing, which puts out those slim 128-page Images of America books, full of historical photos, that you may have seen in the “Local Interest” section of your bookstore.
Not much, besides really good brand recognition. But it does show that Microsoft is starting to take another strategic shift toward emphasizing software as a service. Actually, it’s been trying to do that since .NET and the ill-fated “HailStorm” in 2001, only now there’s actually a business model to go along with it — advertising. …
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