Acclaimed author Jostein Gaarder, best known for the novel Sophie’s World, has written a critical opinion piece on Israel in Aftenposten, a Norwegian newspaper. Not surprisingly, it sparked a fiery debate on political, religious and cultural fronts. There is an unofficial translation of Gaardner’s article, but I doubt it will ever make its way to… Read More »
Plenty. IT folks are a passionate lot who gets agitated over an Apple, excited about anything big, powerful and sexy, and offended by any remote reference to a four-letter word (we mean “geek”, or “nerd”, mind you). And yes, IT folks do have a strange fascination with four-letter words. From BIOS to SCSI to EULA,… Read More »
Published by Creative O Pte Ltd, Chaotic Thoughts From the Old Millennium reads very much like an ego trip by the Creative Technology founder. Worse, fillers suspiciously ran the course in this book. Although the author tried to justify the liberal dose of amateurish babble disingenuously passed off as Philosophies & Theories (“Marriage Is Like… Read More »
Hello Winston, I refer to your editorial, “Why stoop so low?”, in the April 2004 issue of CHIP magazine. So, your competitors have been bad-mouthing CHIP? Welcome to the real world. Ever been to a Sun Microsystems or Microsoft event? Perhaps even an Oracleor PeopleSoft briefing? That’s what competition is all about. Even those fellas… Read More »
Old habits die hard. Even more so is the habit of flogging marketing buzzwords at the drop of a hat.In a recent worldwide survey of 5,000 people in more than 70 countries by The Plain English Campaign, an independent group “fighting for crystal-clear language and against jargon, gobbledygook and other confusing language”, phrases like “at… Read More »
Is this Paris?[… ahem, ahem]Yes, I think it is Paris.[… ahem, ahem]But I’m not sure…[… ahem, ahem]Yes, it must be Paris. In case you’re wondering what the hell is going on, this isn’t a write-up on some stupid game show for people with irrepressible throat itch. Rather, it’s a little reflection of my trip to… Read More »