Month: May 2003

BusinessWeek on Yahoo!

The cover story of the June 2, 2003 edition of BusinessWeek is entitled Yahoo! Act Two. As an insider, the article seems pretty accurate to me. It does a pretty good job explaining what’s changed about the corporate culture since Semel came on board. Our stock price is up almost 70% since the day he […]

Damned if you, damned if you don’t

I had a chuckle when I read these two bullet points in the Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Known Issues release notes: Form auto-complete is still an unstable feature and may lead to crashes. Followed immediately by: Disabling of form auto-completion is not working. Makes me wonder why I’d ever consider using something other than the World’s […]

Economic cost of the support@microsoft.com virus

Those wacky virus people have done it again. The big@boss.com virus (W32.Sobig.A@mm) has mutated into the support@microsoft.com virus (W32.Sobig.B@mm). Ariella and I were chatting about this over lunch. She suggested that if the government simply bought the rights to distribute Norton Antivirus and legislated that it be installed on all computers, we could do the […]

TiVo upgrade

After 3.5 years of using TiVo, I’ve finally decided to crack open the case and increase the recording capacity. I purchased my Philips 14hr HDR112 TiVo (the first model ever manufactured) from Fry’s Electronics in Sunnyvale on October 22nd, 1999. Today, Ariella and I schlepped out to Fry’s in Woodland Hills to purchase a Maxtor […]

Dump the Junk Day

Today is Yahoo! Mail Dump the Junk Day in the United Kingdom. If you’ve got a friend or colleague who bombards you with joke emails and “wacky” attachments, nominate them for the The Dump the Junk Award. Apparently, you’ve gotta be a Brit to enter the contest.