Job For John: “Last Thursday, July 24th I was downsized from my job of 3 years at a software company. Later the same day I heard that President Bush’s economic team would be doing a bus tour through Wisconsin and Minnesota this week touting Bush’s tax cut and its prosperous economic effects. ‘What a bunch [...]
From Mike Gunderloy’s Larkware blog:
I’m sure I’ve ranted about this before, but remember, only two types of people brag about being in Microsoft beta programs: liars and cheats. Well, OK, maybe there’s a third category: careless people. Read the NDAs you signed, people. From time immemorial, Microsoft beta program NDAs have prohibited discussing the beta [...]
Geoffrey Nunberg is one of my favorite NPR commentators and makes some great points in this New York Times: Business column: Initiating Mission-Critical Jargon Reduction. “Over the past 20 years, business has replaced government in the public mind as the chief perpetrator of doublespeak.” The killer sentence, for me:
The corporation was created as a legal [...]
qotd agust 03. William Gibson: “The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
