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Is Ownership Passé?

May 4, 2009

In this first piece in a series, I look at own­er­ship vs. rent­ing, the result of a num­ber of obser­va­tions through­out the last few months.

Is high volatility the new normal?

October 6, 2008

Look­ing at the fluc­tu­a­tion of the Dow over the last few weeks, I noticed a pat­tern of increased volatil­ity. In this entry, I try to present some of what I’m look­ing at and hope that read­ers will help me bet­ter under­stand that data.

Tivo and Digital Media Servers

April 9, 2003

Back when they came out, I said that tools like Tivo and Replay could change the face of tele­vi­sion watch­ing. A cou­ple of years ago, I assumed that game boxes would be the new home media cen­ter. What I missed, though, was the end run that Tivo was doing around the game com­pa­nies. With yesterday’s announce­ment that they would […]

RSS .91 to 1.0 using ASP

December 14, 2000

What is RSSup? RSSup is an ASP script that allows web­mas­ter who already gen­er­ate an RSS .91 feed for their site to dynam­i­cally cre­ate an RSS 1.0 feed. Using the Microsoft XML parser (sup­plied with IE 5) on the server side, you can now move to RSS 1.0 with­out hav­ing to worry about recod­ing your channel. […]