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Booster Shots
I'm going to be making my away over to Beijing and other parts of Asia towards the end of next week, so I have to step out shortly to get some new inoculations. I'm really looking forward to the journey...not so much to the shots. In this particular case, I suspect the visit to the travel health clinic here in South Austin will involve needles which will provide me the appropriate dose of various serum. But it just as easily could have been a situation where I'm giving blood for testing, storage, etc. Which reminded me of an issue that I had... [More]
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Yahoo's Firing, Google's Hiring
Terry Semel is on his way out the door as CEO of Yahoo, to be replaced by that original Yahooligan, Jerry Yang. Ah, I remember when Jerry was a wee lad, walking up onstage to accept the "Best in Show" at Internet World in San Jose way back in the Jurassic Web age of 1995. Now just look at 'im! And while Yahoo seems to be firing on a few cylinders, Google seems to be hiring at full speed ahead just up the coast a bit, particularly in the, oh, say, blogging slash public policy arena. Andrew McLaughlin, Google's director of "Public Policy... [More]
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