Craig Maloney

YouTube - Daft Punk-Technologic
God, I love this song and video.

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I was going to put this in the previous thoughts article, but there’s enough here to warrant it’s own posting.
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystem’s CEO, in his latest article discusses the recent ticker symbol change from SUNW to JAVA. One particular sentence stuck me while reading his posting:
First, I knew ahead of time changing a ticker [...]

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Is there anything on YouTube that is rated more than four stars? It’s like the proverbial 4 out of 5 dentists agree. Is there a guaranteed dissenter in any group or collection of people?
Whatever happened to Crayola Chalk, specifically yellow chalk? According to crayola.com, there isn’t anywhere in this area that we can purchase it [...]

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YouTube - Sing’n Picard
If this isn’t caught in your head by the end, you aren’t human.

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Maybe the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is right after all. Maybe we are all criminals. Maybe we’re all in it just for the free music, with no regard for the people who create the music we love.
A while ago I was in a Borders bookstore, browsing through the music, when I overheard two [...]

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via Michiguide:
One of the more interesting battles for listeners on the FM dial has been occurring slightly under the radar. The ratings for public news-talk stations WUOM-FM (91.7)/WFUM-FM (91.1) and WDET-FM (101.9) are close, but WUOM/WFUM’s 1.3 rating outpaced WDET’s 1.1 rating among all listeners this past spring. That’s startling with WDET’s focus on Detroit [...]

Tags: Music, News and notes by craig
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predelusional: Empowerment
“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behaviour.” — Dee Hock

Tags: A day in the life, Computers, Rants by craig
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Recently, Monster.com had a security breach. You might have heard about it from various media sources (Monster attack steals user data article from BBC News). This breach of security resulted in people getting e-mails about their Monster accounts, asking them to download a trojan program in order to keep their access to the site. I’m [...]

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This morning I was thinking (for whatever reason) about the newsletters that educational institutions send to their alumni. In all of the ones I’ve seen, there’s a place for people to put in what they’ve been up to lately. The stories read like a who’s who entry in some vanity press book:
“John Doe is a [...]

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Slashdot | Hear No Evil, See No Evil — E-mail Kills the Phone
I can completely relate to the findings on this. I’ve found I can get more work done via e-mail than any other media. And don’t get me started on blogs- they’ve turned one of my co-workers into a fucking blog zombie who doesn’t [...]

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