Separated at birth
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
The Two Harrys (Potter and Enfield):
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More deadly than any firearm
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Brian’s photo and brief quotation on Tony Blair’s “strategy” to combat gun crime pretty much says it all - apart from that it is truly astonishing how many people are truly astonished that, when only criminals and the police have guns, you get gun crime. Fancy that!
I just accidentally heard some of Radio Four’s […]
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Profane but true quote of the day
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
[W]hen you work with assholes, you don’t change them for the better, they change you into an asshole.
–Bob Sutton (whose blog hosts a wealth of information about assholes; I think every office should have a copy of his book, The No Asshole Rule) via Chris Yeh
As the a-bomb quotient on this post is so high, […]
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I’m going to LA for the Oscars
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Okay, so I’m going to be watching them on TV at Cathy Seipp’s house, but still! (LA Times opinion editor Matt Welch and Emmanuelle Richard, who will be covering the Oscars for French TV on Sunday, have been kind enough to open up their guest room to me for my visit. I don’t think poor […]
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Broken business models old and new
Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Ice was a fantastic business, for two thousand years… they were probably having conferences like this, talking about ice ponds and straw and shipping routes…Then in 1873 a guy named Perkins invented refrigeration. And your ice business was dead.
Michael Rosenberg, quoted from Doc Searls’ shortterm memory, speaking at the IMA conference in Boston, where people […]
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Hateration
Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
I get the occasional comment on this blog which amounts to, “You suck, I hate you, I hope you die. Burn in hell, bitch!” Perhaps perversely, this flatters me, because let’s face it - they cared enough to write.
I got another comment like that today, and on a whim, did a Google search […]
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David Geffen
Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
This made me laugh; it’s nice to see one’s enemies ripping each other to shreds while my nail polish dries. Keep it up, guys.
Speaking of David Geffen’s ties to Obama, this story reminded me of 2005, when Arianna Huffington crashed the party I threw in LA (okay, Mickey Kaus actually invited her, but I […]
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Call me a scofflaw
Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
This, via Perry, is bang on:
What scofflaws need now, and what the majority of our population will wish for in the future, probably at the point where the government finally does try to seize every handgun or require every citizen be fingerprinted and have his or her DNA sequenced and recorded in a permanent database, […]
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“Living this way I stress less”
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
We’re going to see Nelly Furtado tonight, which should be…interesting. She’s pretty to look at, that’s for sure. I don’t like Gwyneth Paltrow’s wife (TM Greg Gutfeld) much, but it would be cool if he showed up to perform this song with her, as it’s surprisingly pleasant (though I have to acknowledge that my taste […]
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Sarbanes-Oxley
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Has there ever been a better example of why regulation sucks?
Last year, more than 350 companies went public in Europe, selling $86 billion of stock, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In the U.S., 235 companies raised $48 billion in IPOs. In 1999, 507 companies went public in the U.S., selling a combined $63.93 billion […]
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Why BT is so crap
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Michael Jennings explains why the formerly nationalised British Telecom is such a pain in the backside here:
Yes, well, BT should have been broken up into a number of pieces prior to privatisation and then the pieces should have been allowed to compete with each other. However like with most British privatisations, the Treasury figured out […]
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Why Doc Searls doesn’t use “Web 2.0″
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
When asked a long time ago to define what it meant to me, I said it’s the name we’ll give to the next crash.
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An Unquiet Mind
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
I just read An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins who suffers from manic-depressive illness (aka bipolar disorder, which Jamison finds something of an unhelpful misnomer). Being an award-winning and highly-respected medical professional - and having tenure - helped free her to write candidly about her disorder, her […]
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Favours between loved ones
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
One of my favourite blogs right now is The Happiness Project. It’s the kind of blog I really need to sit down and digest - not just skim and then mark as read in my RSS reader - and I’m treating myself to a catch-up session with what Gretchen’s been writing. As always, a rewarding […]
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