February 2008
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Outlook is one of those Microsoft applications than can shorten your life. I’ve seen people fly into rage because of some inanely stupid thing that Outlook did. I’ve had really powerful computers slow to a crawl while Outlook ‘does its business’. Even with substantial improvements under Outlook 2007, I still am amazed that Microsoft can’t…
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Armsflow.org is a fascinating site that has a graphic visualization of the global arms trade by year since the beginning of the cold war. It takes a while to load, as the animated graphs are done in java, but the trends are pretty interesting to see. You can check it out here. via BoingBoing.
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Image via Wikipedia Michael Gartenberg just posted exactly what I was thinking on the Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo: It should have been written Dear Yahoo Shareholder: How would you like to get Yahoo’s share price from six months ago back, tomorrow? Of course the deal will take longer to playout, but it’s already been…
