Philips Consumer Electronics has a bit of a “stodgy” reputation in the United States. The miniscule number of ads that Philips has done over the years hasn’t made any iota of difference to anyone. They’ve had a tendency to leave advertising of their consumer products up to retail merchants, who usually announce the products at a substantial discount or clearance.
When Microsoft’s open source lab offered to help the Mozilla foundation with getting Firefox to run well on Vista, reactions ranged from skeptical and suspicious to surprised and excited. But in fact, the two teams have already been quietly working together. In this thread, Mike Schroepfer wrote “we are already in contact with your team via email”. The lab time would be helpful, though, according to Mozilla developer Mike Beltzner, who added “yes, we’d definitely be interested in getting some 1:1 support”.
It just goes to show that developers from organizations that are outwardly fiercely competitive are often quite civil with each other when nobody is looking. Perhaps that’s why projects like Apache and Eclipse are so successful.
Which led me to do the following cartoon…
Wonder if it’ll chew off its leg when it wakes up in the morning?
Man, it’s 4AM and I’m still wide awake. And I mean, mow the yard with a push-mower awake.
It’s just not right.
I’ve had this insomnia for … well … yeah, just more than a year. Can’t sleep, no matter how hard I try. Maybe it started as the restlessness of impending doom.
Lovely people like to tell me, “It’s guilt that keeps you up at night!” But it certainly isn’t guilt, and I just tell them, “Thanks!”
Now, it’s the same thing. No guilt. More frustration.
A couple of weeks ago, I was prescribed Lunesta. Nice one. Calms my mind. Makes me speak in coherent sentences. Makes me dream, and remember. I like that.
But it sure as Hell doesn’t put me to sleep.
Man, Swanky, maybe it was the greasers over the weekend that got you all worked up. Maybe it was discussing politics with me where I clearly implicated both sides in screwing over the American Public. Maybe it was being tired and cranky and cantankerous (old man! heh).
But … I’ve read Lilek’s article over and over, and I can’t figure out WHAT you’re talking about.
I’ve been reading the Bleat for years now and he has gone further and further into the business of being a grumpy guy and less and less being an amusing commentator on culture. He had the sense to move a lot of it to a separate blog. But today he just lost it. It sounds to me like the rantings of an “old guy” who can’t take the notion that he is a complete square. He spends a lot of words trying to discount any sort of counter culture sensibility as being stupid and has a bad habit of justifying things by pointing out that much much worse things are happening elsewhere in the world. Sort of like “Why are the namby pamby Democrats so up in arms about the goverment spying on them without warrants when North Korea has 100,000 people being tortured to death in secret prisons?” “Why get so up in arms about blacks being kept out of good schools in the 50s when Russia was killing thousands of people every month in Gulags?” Sad. That’s not an argument. Mis-direction.
I read most of the Bleat today and over and over it was just saying, this guy is really a stiff neck jerk. “How dare you rebel against a country that feeds you, Marlon Brando and James Dean!” Lileks, you are a sad old guy. Mr. Unhip. And that seems to make you crazy. You need to start allowing people to reply to your rants on your site. Dialog.
James Dean was a product of his environment, as we all all are. We all rage against the machine, some harder than others. But when we express our displeasure at whatever’s going on, isn’t it better to focus on facts rather than lefty-nutso ridiculouslness?
And on that note, I’m gonna throw in Sinatra while I try and sleep. I hope that’s not too Republican of me, wanting to sleep at 2:41AM. 😉
I read this earlier today, and meant to blog it, but got busy and missed it. This is News of the Weird type stuff:
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli woman’s breast implants saved her life when she was wounded in a Hizbollah rocket attack during Israel’s war with the Lebanese group, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.
Doctors found shrapnel embedded in the silicone implants, just inches from the 24-year-old’s heart.
“She was saved from death,” said a spokesman for Nahariya Hospital in northern Israel. The woman has been released from hospital
