Gil Friend’s Blog
Bottom of the barrel?
Also on Marketplace, advertisers are responding to Tivo - which conspires to enable people to watch fewer TV ads - by sticking ads almost everywhere. Like CBS's eggs and the - can you believe it? - 'Wizmark interactive urinal communicator'. The whiner on Marketplace...
‘Green’ is no replacement for good sense
Case in point: British Petroleum's corroded Alaska pipelines. There's just no substitute for handling the fundamentals, BP's substantive (meeting 2010 Kyoto targets seven years early) and PR ("Beyond Petroleum") efforts nothwithstanding. BP put off inspecting the...
Data Center biomimicry?
[eWeek]: HP Looks to Nature for Data Center of the Future When George Daniels looks at today's data centers, he sees an outdated model in desperate need of change. Daniels, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Design Center, isn't the only person thinking...
Quote of the day
...comes courtesy of Amy Lenzo's BEAUTY DIALOGUES: Who can afford to live without beauty? Beauty fills us with passion: It graces us with joy & lights up our existence. A landscape, a piece of music, a film, a dance – Suddenly all dreariness is gone, we are...
Blogolalia
Testing out Performancering for Firefox as a possible blogging environment. It took some help from Userland to get it configured, but we seem to be there now. (Tho it seems to be picking up stray characters from my keyboard.)(Please don't be geeked out by this, folks....
My head. It’s talking
Deborah Streeter's extended interview with me at the NCIIA conference in March 2006 is now posted at the Cornell University eClips web site. (You get a collection of thematic clips, as well as transcripts.)I haven't watched them all yet, but my favorite so far is this...
Once a year, whether you need it or not
Today's a good day to read the Declaration of Independence. Aloud. Ol' Tom Jefferson's hand can still raise goosebumps, 230 years later. (The 4th of July isn't just about hotdogs and fireworks. And the Declaration of Independence is not just for USA-ans. You don't...
Climate Haiku!
From the impressive Sonoma County (CA) Climate Protection Campaign: climate crisis haiku! A few samples: A frog in water Doesn't feel it boil in time. Dude, we are that frog. ÖHaiku Hullabaloo winner, Grist Magazine, July 2004 and Reduce by one fifth First step to...
Customer service award
Today's customer service award goes to AT&T. They called out of the blue to reduce charges on our accounts (good), transfered me to their "third party verifier" at Human Touch Verification (ok), who read me incorrect information (not so good), told me they couldn't...