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…that’s a quote from a delicious article by John Siracusa available on Ars Technica. Headlined Stuck On The Enterprise, it looks at a number of reasons why Apple doesn’t seem to do well in the enterprise space. [I must confess a very personal interest in this topic, having more than once tried to introduce Apple [...]

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As I mentioned in a recent post, India hold the unwanted record of posting the highest innings score without any individual hundreds. Today that record seemed set to be “bettered”, until Kumble came along and scored his maiden Test century. While musing about unwanted records, I commented that Michael Atherton held some record or the [...]

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Some of you have asked me to share my reading habits with you, so here’s my current ten-in-parallel:
The Black Swan: Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Fascinating, eminently readable, gentle and easy and unusual. Second pass.
Science, Faith and Society: Michael Polanyi: My regular Polanyi “fix”. Not for the faint-hearted. Third pass.
Comedy by the Numbers: Hoffman and Rudoren. A [...]

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I guess I was younger and more hot-headed not that long ago; I remember being quite irritated when I heard that Microsoft had bought MongoMusic, as reported here. Until that happened, I’d nurtured real belief that we were on the verge of a breakthrough related to search, albeit rooted in music in the first instance.
Some [...]

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Looks like India will beat its own record for the highest Test innings score without a hundred: they’re currently 513 for 7, four runs behind 2nd spot and 11 runs behind 1st spot; if you interested, I published the top 10 such scores in this post. And it made me think, they didn’t really want [...]

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