What a great legacy he has left behind:

[Beijing Olympic Stadium via Flickr]
From the NYTimes:With the Beijing Olympics less than two months away, hotel operators, travel agencies, and foreign businessmen say new Chinese visa restrictions are proving bad for business, casting a pall over Beijing during what was supposed to be a busy and jubilant tourist season leading up to the Olympic Games.
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Watching the NH primary results yesterday, one thing became clear that is true both in politics and web design: don’t trust what the user tells you they want from your product, but what they actually do when faced with the product.
The same way asking voters for intended vote is not an accurate science, don’t expect [...]

Everything you ever wanted to know about the current market turmoil but were afraid to ask… two British comedians explain how investment banking works:

Via SAI

Today I completed the last of the nine races with the New York Road Runner’s Club that you need in order to qualify for next year’s Marathon. Running with the club in these weekend races has been great fun and the perfect excuse to get up early on a cold Sunday morning.
Not sure if I [...]

Like many other Wordpress users recently, my site was hacked recently by link spammers.
The spammers also deleted my backup files, so I had to reinstall Wordpress (now on version 2.3) and recover previous posts by using this excellent trick that makes the most of Google Reader to retrieve a feed.
I then converted the Atom Google [...]

Compared to Europe, I find investment levels in public infrastructure in the US very low.
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JetBlue’s CEO David Neeleman just had one of the toughest weeks in his career.
With his company still recovering from the effects of the Valentine’s Day snowstorm that swept their New York hub, it is time to reach out to their so-far loyal customers and to start going down the slow path of customer recovery.
As one [...]

Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (the Producer is David Guggenheim) and also for best original song.
The message in the documentary is very powerful, and I encourage everyone to see it. Global warming and its causes have been established scientifically as fact, but as with any [...]

While taking a break from doing some tech maintenance on the PC at home, I came across an old video of David Bradley, the inventor of the Control-Alt-Delete key combination at IBM.
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