There is something odd about Krugman’s attacks on Obama’s candidacy. Why? Can it really be that Krugman hates anyone who doesn’t believe in health-care mandates? I’ve explained before why this is a red-herring. Krugman’s assumption that talk of bi-partisanship and unity will mean adopting Republican positions. But that is not the case. If [...]
Entries from January 2008
22 January 2008
Benito Guliani
I lived in NYC for most of the Guliani administration. When asked why I left NYC, I joke that I was exiled during the Guliani years. Today’s NY Times story makes it less of a joke:
In August 1997, James Schillaci, a rough-hewn chauffeur from the Bronx, dialed Mayor Giuliani’s radio program on WABC-AM [...]
18 January 2008
Krugman’s Complaint
Krugman says the Federal Reserve should have done something to stem the housing bubble, but was correct not to have raised interest rates:
What should have been done differently? Some critics say that the Fed helped inflate the housing bubble with low interest rates. But those rates were low for a good reason: although the last [...]
17 January 2008
MacWorld Malaise, III
While I appreciate the iPhone upgrades that were offered, I was not thrilled. No cut-and-paste, no direct file transfer, no Flash for Safari, no non-network apps. Web apps are fine if you have a network connection, but you cannot use them in a plane in-flight and if you’re limited to EDGE they are often too [...]
17 January 2008
MacWorld Malaise, II (Updated)
So we can rent movies via iTunes but not HD movies unless we rent them via an AppleTV, and then they only last 24 hours. They cost about the same as HD-DVD or Blu-Ray rentals at stores, but don’t last as long and will come out 30-days after the discs are released.
Being able to rent [...]
16 January 2008
MacWorld Malaise, I
Why make a fetish out of thinness?
MacBook Air looks great, but it is unclear how much demand there will be for paying $550 more to lose 2 lbs. and some processing power and hard-drive speed v. a regular MacBook (Air uses a 4200 rpm Parallel ATA HD). A ThinkPad X61 12.1″ w/ a 2GHz [...]
14 January 2008
Recursive Logic, Iraq Edition
The New York Times reports on the booby-trapped house in Iraq that killed six US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter: “But the ill-fated unit was apparently lured back to it by a villager who did not tell them that insurgents had sneaked back in later and rigged the house to explode.” How were they “lured [...]
14 January 2008
BBC’s Jeremy Clarkson Bound by Soghoian’s Law
Threats of identify theft may be exaggerated, but the threat is nonetheless real, as C-Net’s Chris Soghoian points out .
