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	Phil's Blogservations Thursday, July 29, 2004 Posted by philgomes 4:21 PM NASA Finds The Death Star NASA Finds The Death Star "That's No Moon." Posted by philgomes 11:30 AM Happy Birthday To Me, Happy Birthday To Me... Happy Birthday To Me, Happy Birthday To Me... ...Happy Birthday dear Phi-illl... I'm now the age everyone thought I was when I started growing a beard. Friday, July 23, 2004 Posted by philgomes 2:24 PM Product Placement Of The Year Little Black Book: Product Placement Of The Year If there's a more prominent product placement out there than the PalmOne "Tungsten" model's placement in the movie Little Black Book, I can't think of one. Via Apple's Quicktime trailer site. Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Posted by philgomes 10:05 AM Back From Vacation Back From Vacation Postings will resume, now that I'm back from my trip to the mountains. In the meantime, please enjoy this refreshingly even-handed piece of political parody that I came across this morning. Tuesday, July 06, 2004 Posted by philgomes 6:37 PM Dvorak On COMDEX Dvorak On COMDEX Dvorak has some theories as to why COMDEX bit the dust. If we believe the announcement by the show owner, MediaLive, we should see a new show in 2005. Hah! The MediaLive folks say they're going to put together another group of advisers consisting of a slew of big software and hardware companies to tell them what to do. This is like PC Magazine asking advertisers what should be in the magazine. No matter what company you ask, the response will be "More stuff about me!" My first and last COMDEX was 1999's show. It was the show that came the year after the "Asian flu" economic slowdown. If there was any message to come out of that year's COMDEX, it was that the Asian companies got money again, judging by the booths. The lesson I learned from Adaptec's then-tradeshow-doyenne Suzanne McIntosh: Do a private meeting suite, not a booth, and make that suite a fun place to hang out in. Posted by philgomes 10:00 AM Somehow, It Just Doesn't Cut It... Somehow, It Just Doesn't Cut It... From the Lexington Herald-Leader: It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission. Thursday, July 01, 2004 Posted by philgomes 12:02 PM The Pentium III: Threat To National Security? The Pentium III: Threat To National Security? One-time VP hopeful Geraldine Ferraro once observed that there was a time when "semiconductor" meant "part-time orchestra leader" and "microchips" could have been a type of diet food based on the portion-control principle. It seems that lawmakers actually believe this. A "tiny part" of a new bill would seem to classify even outdated PC CPUs as homeland-security-significant. From the CNET article: Today, computer sellers are required to get a license to export any computer with performance equal to or greater than a system with 32 Intel Itanium processors. The current version of the defense authorization act would lower that limit to systems deemed "militarily critical" by the Department of Defense. That level is currently set to the equivalent of a computer using a Pentium 3 processor running at 650MHz, state of the art in 1999 but considered feeble today. Equally dumb is the fact that no one over there seems to realize that Asian companies like Via make x86-compatible CPUs that offer equal or greater computational power compared to the Pentium III. If you really want to get a clear picture of the anti-tech bent of many legislators, download this report (PDF) from Pacific Research Institute. It identifies 10 tech-unfriendly bills, introduced around the time of the dot-bust, and the Valley-area politicians that supported them. Posted by philgomes 9:49 AM Sun Micro Executive Blog Sun Micro Executive Blog Bravo to Sun president/COO Jonathan Schwartz for starting an executive blog. OK, I'm starting a blog. Why shouldn't an officer of a public company start a blog? Hey, life is short. At some point, take RegFD to its logical extreme, and this is how we're all going to be communicating anyways. Think about it. Interesting point. And, with regard to regulatory pressures, I wonder if there are any PR/IR checks-and-balances involved in publishing this blog. I pretty much doubt it, in this case. This blog certainly has the feel of a more extemporaneous journal. Most importantly (and this is what most people don't seem to get): I promise to listen — from all the constituencies we serve (customers, stockholders, developers, consumers, suppliers... all). Thanks to Kevin Werbach for the link. (He also doubts the presence of active PR involvement in this blog.) 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