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Rants

From time to time over the years, I’ve had various investment analysts want to talk to me about my thoughts on how a particular search company might do. What cracks me up is that invariably, they think I should provide such advice for free. I have peers in the search space and other areas who [...]

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For all the concerns people have about internet search, privacy and “all that info Google knows about us,” I remain amazed at how much power credit reporting agencies have to really dick with our lives and publish incorrect information about us, with us seeming to have little ability to resolve things. And how all we [...]

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Euphoria over Obama’s win, followed by disbelief and despair over over Proposition 8′s ban on gay marriage passing in California. I’ll be out protesting tomorrow at South Coast Plaza in Orange County as part of a nationwide campaign. Please consider going to a location yourself. And if you’re against gay marriage, please, some words to [...]

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A sad story from reading the Los Angeles Times this weekend. A homeless man was doused by someone with gasoline, set alight and died. Who does something like this? Set someone on fire for kicks? Moreover, it’s a sad tale of a man who not only was down on his luck but apparently didn’t beg, [...]

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We can’t fly as fast as we used to. Our music sounds worse than it did years ago. On a regular basis, I often can’t understand what people are saying on the telephone, something that never, ever happened when I was a kid. How did we get from having the best of things to things [...]

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In Read The Wall Street Journal For Free, I explained how to get Wall Street Journal content for free via Google News. But in the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a problem. You can’t find some of the articles that the Wall Street Journal publishes using Google News, not if you look for them using [...]

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I know. A story about problems with Dell and customer support aren’t new. I know about Jeff Jarvis, his experience and the “been there, done that” feel of another blogger writing about Dell issues. But coming back from a trip and finding my recently repaired Dell desktop failing to boot as has been the case [...]

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My boys were playing baseball today. Just up and decided to play all by themselves, which is a pretty big thrill for an American dad living in England. OK, I’m a sports idiot, as I’ve written before. But I like baseball, going to the odd game on occasion, or pretending I know how to actually [...]

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Minor rant here, about being sick and tired of seeing the same pitch for North Cyprus property over and over again on Digg. Can’t Google give them any better ad inventory for UK visitors to see? And while I’m ranting, what’s with the "free" XBox 360 ad that Google’s allowing to slip past the quality [...]

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I’m three hours into a marathon session of trying to get my computer to work again the way it used to before Microsoft shoved a ton of security updates at me. System Restore, my old trusty friend, hasn’t been able to help. That makes me think Microsoft has done some things to override how System [...]

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