December 18, 2001

Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft

I suspect this is just disinformation and I’m just propagating it, but there’s an article in the washington post that says,

“A suspected member of the Al Qaeda terrorist network claimed that Islamic militants infiltrated Microsoft and sabotaged the company’s Windows XP operating system, according to a source close to Indian police."

there’s also an interesting (and funny) thread running on slashdot about this as well … freaky!

November 26, 2001

Coffee-Wielding Bandit

did you ever imagine reading “coffee-wielding bandit” as a headline?

“Florida police say a coffee-wielding bandit has robbed at least six Fort Lauderdale Dunkin’ Donuts stores. Police say the man hurls hot java at the clerks after they open the register and then grabs cash from the open drawer.”

November 26, 2001

eBay: The People’s Company

from BusinessWeek: “Meet the People’s Company. Like a democracy, it can be a noisy and unruly place, where citizens sometimes think the folks in charge are numbskulls. But the people’s passion prevails at eBay because the people are firmly in charge.”

November 21, 2001

how to get off death row ;

i think this picture needs no caption, but maybe a bad 70’s funk soundtrack … doh!

November 7, 2001

Google now indexing Office et al ;

pretty cool, google “… now extracts and indexes the text from many file formats, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PostScript, RTF, Lotus files, WordStar 2000, RFT (and old IBM format), MacWrite, and on and on. The extracted information is also converted in most cases to HTML which you can view by clicking a link next to the result."

November 5, 2001

Collaboration, suddenly, is cool.

the following are quotes from an interesting article titled “Culture of Collaboration”, which includes 10 recommendations for getting employees to adopt collaborative tools and use them in an effective way.

“The biggest challenge of getting employees to work together online isn’t a technological problem-it’s a cultural and organizational one.”

“The danger for many is overspending on collaborative technologies without making the cultural and organizational adjustments necessary to derive any benefit from them."

November 1, 2001

Companies Move Away From Centralized Offices

NY Times article talks about how “the current confluence of crisis and technology appears to be prompting a reassessment of old thinking about the way big organizations should organize people.”

for example, “Procter & Gamble aims to use alternative workplace arrangements to save $300 million annually in reduced real estate costs and higher productivity …”

October 27, 2001

Underneath Ground Zero

Pictures taken of the 1 & 9 Broadway subway line underneath the World Trade Center collapse.

October 23, 2001

Spice Girls: Exactly the Reason Why Bin Laden Hates the West

from IslamOnline: “Having a Spice Girl and her bikini-babe dancers prance around in the deserts of Oman like so many trampy tarts, isn’t showing respect."

October 17, 2001

Anthrax worries find answer in e-mail

An obvious solution … “Congress is asking constituents to communicate with their senators or representatives through electronic means.”