Management à la Google

WSJ.com - Management à la Google: "Once again, Google's on a tear. Last week its stock price rose 9%, buoyed by a 60% jump in first-quarter profits and a 79% gain in revenues. Yet Google is still down 7% off its all-time high. Presumably, many of the investors who drove its shares down by nearly 30% during the first quarter remain doubtful about its ability to keep on delivering eye-popping growth in revenue and earnings. A little skepticism is a healthy thing."

posted by Dan Flies @ 4/27/2006 11:34:00 PM 0 comments links to this post  

Jolly Good Fun!

I really enjoyed this, check it out. Now if only "Nino" would gives the brit a run for his literary money. That would be awesome!

Broken: The Code in the 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling - New York Times: "LONDON —� It took the lawyers-cum-cryptographers from the Olswang law firm here most of Wednesday and Thursday, and a good many hints from Justice Peter Smith, to crack the secret coded message the judge playfully concealed in his ruling in the recent “Da Vinci Code” copyright case."

posted by Dan Flies @ 4/27/2006 11:01:00 PM 0 comments links to this post  

Are Republicans Screwed?

The Slate article gives pleanty of reasons why it beleives that the current Rupblican majority is going to feeling big losses this November. This is also acknowledged by the congressional leadership that has urged Bush to investigate the "gouging" of gas prices. I think the most intersting part of the whole discussion is the the Republican shift to classic voter "bribery" with pork barrel projects. I think the paragraph below gives just as much in site into the Republican outlook for November.

Why Republicans are screwed. By John Dickerson: "Congress has expanded federal spending by 45 percent since 2001 with expansive agriculture, education, energy, and highway bills. It has resisted Bush's spending cuts in this election year and plan to lard as much as $20 billion onto Bush's $92 billion request for Iraq funding. Included in that grab is funding for the 'railroad to nowhere,' the requisite transportation pork that, like the 'bridge to nowhere,' seems the perfect metaphor for the directionless GOP."

posted by Dan Flies @ 4/26/2006 02:36:00 PM 0 comments links to this post  

Download a tour, then tour downtown

Download a tour, then tour downtown | csmonitor.com: "Tourism is getting a digital redesign. Many young travelers are tired of the cheesy guided walks and the slow, sometimes pretentious audio tours that have become the staples of urban tourism."

posted by Dan Flies @ 4/12/2006 11:37:00 AM 2 comments links to this post  

Apple Introduces Boot Camp

Apple Introduces Boot Camp: "Apple Introduces Boot Camp
Public Beta Software Enables Intel-based Macs to Run Windows XP

CUPERTINO, California—April 5, 2006—Apple� today introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Available as a download beginning today, Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac�, and once installation is complete, users can restart their computer to run either Mac OS� X or Windows XP. Boot Camp will be a feature in “Leopard,” Apple’s next major release of Mac OS X, that will be previewed at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in August."

posted by Dan Flies @ 4/05/2006 09:36:00 AM 0 comments links to this post