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December 30, 2003


floptastic
Posted in :: Technology ::

From Yahoo! News - The Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever

"What distinguishes a simply bad product from the truly awful? Sometimes it's a dreadful user interface. Other times it's a product that successfully addresses a particularly daunting problem - yet one shared by relatively few people. And often competitive or financial pressure forces new products to market before they're ready - full of bugs and horribly unusable. Still other times, the products arrive too early. Eventually they become a success, but often after the founding company has been ruined. "

Posted at 02:38 PM, December 30, 2003
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useful tool
Posted in :: Technology ::

MT Extensions: MT-Medic 1.34

for those of you who don't follow all the Mt activity that closely, do look at this extension: a nifty little script that overcomes one of Mt's flaws-- password retrieval and resetting.

Posted at 09:53 AM, December 30, 2003
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who says random data isn't fun?
Posted in :: Apropos of Nothing ::

Top Yahoo! Searches 2003 teaches us the most popular jennifer, how to misspell the governator's name, and reminds us about our lack of schooling (the #1 iraq related search is "map of iraq")

Why is random data so interesting? Who cares, give me some more!

Posted at 07:58 AM, December 30, 2003
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