Tag Archive for 'Novell'

How to Manage Geeks

Someone recently dredged up this article on How to Manage Geeks, which I had never even seen before. The author is none other than ex-Novell CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt.

3.34

I filled up the other day for $3.34 per gallon (premium). This was at a Costco in the suburbs - even regular gas is more than this downtown, so it could be worse.

Gas price

Still, this is the first time in my life I can recall paying over $3.00 per gallon, except one time in Hana, Maui (thanks Novell), but they only have one gas station there and it has to take quite a trip to reach the town.

Book Burning is Only the Beginning

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index

News from The Onion (always reliable) about “Google Purge.” Pretty funny - they even have a picture of former Novell CEO Eric Schmidt.

In similar news, I keep hearing these ads for Microsoft Student 2006 on the radio. The ad features the voices of a bunch of kids asking their parents for help with homework. The voice-over implies that kids can now get all their answers from MS Student and become much more intelligent, instead of bugging their parents.

I’m wondering how long it’ll be before they cut out the middle-man altogether, and announce Microsoft Parent 2007…

RARP

This cracks me up - especially the part about the Redmond Artistic Recycling Project.


Novell Linux Desktop Decal Kit