http://dubious.biz/blog dubious bizness Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:07:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it finally happened. In the 21st century, Apple released a flop. Oh, it hasn't been released yet, but the fact remains, it's a flop. In my circle of tech fiends, some Applistas and some immune to the "reality distortion field", only one (and a distant one who I don't ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=338 As your product ages, there are two suboptimal models for continuing your product's life: you can be Oldsmobile or you can be MTV. Oldsmobile, now dead, was once the most innovative brand under the GM umbrella. The Rocket V8 was a mass production overhead valve engine that was the technological ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=334 I started to think a bit more about the banking and shadow banking system and I wanted to make a metaphor. Being a Kentucky boy, I started to try to form it around a thoroughbred track, because at a track there are a ton of ways to make money. The ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=330 Or, Travails in the Modern Political System... Watching Obama and the democrats struggle to get a stimulus bill kills the post-election and inaugural euphoria and reminds me of what it is like trying to get politicians to do what I want. You may not know it but for a short while ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=329 For whatever reason I read some blog post about the "semantic web". Often, and my even greater annoyance, people capitalize semantic web as if it were a proper noun. It is not even a properly thought out idea, let alone a proper noun. What is the semantic web anyway? Well the ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=328 Ok, this is fast turning in to a political blog. I'm trying to talk about interesting things, not just the political mudslinging that appears on the rest of the Internet. This is for my foreign friends who are essentially baffled by the electoral college and electoral map. I personally find the ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=327 I was walking out of the Hauptbahnhof, the train station in Zurich, at about nine in the morning. Jane and I had taken the night train from Florence back to Zurich so I hadn't stayed up all night waiting. The respectable broadsheets all had publishing deadlines before the election had ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=326 Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union' This speech, along with Obama's campaign will go down in the history books. Recently Palin has taken to calling Obama un-American, which is a disgusting claim. Obama has sacrificed his life and his career to America. So has McCain. So has Palin. You can call ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=324 In the best interview ever, Palin talked about why she only just got a passport. Fast forward to exactly 1:00 in (after the ad). Palin: I'm not one of those who maybe came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=323 The past week has been one of the most bizarre on record. First of all our economy is in a freefall until someone finds a working parachute. Bush became the salesman for Paulson's plan. Bernanke admits that he's been wrong every time up until now, letting his academic humility tamper ... http://dubious.biz/blog/?p=322