Pretty vitriolic: All I can say about BeIA is, “What a complete waste of time.” (from beosjournal.com)
Archive for August, 2001
I don’t really know what to say about this.
There’s a year of my life down the drain, and blamed on me. Whoopty-doo.
Some have referred to our stock price as a tragedy, or similar. I prefer to think of it as a distributed denial-of-money attack.
Ray Bradbury interviewed by Salon:
If you can’t read and write you can’t think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don’t know how to read and write. You’ve got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.This is also wonderful and totally true:
What do you mean “in human terms”?You know, that’s the secret of my relationship with my wife too. We eat together, all the time, in new and old venues, and tell each other new and old stories. It’s so true. (Maybe a city is like a huge marriage.)Places to eat. The secret of cities is eating. In Paris there are 20,000 restaurants. You go down Main Street, people are sitting out and people-watching — that’s what I’m talking about.
26 Aug
2001
Chris, Alicia, and Ingrid came over to watch The Sopranos tonight.
≡ 11:30 pm ≡ palmsource
Chris, Alicia, and Ingrid came over to watch The Sopranos tonight. We showed Alicia the box of goodies that Palm gave us on Friday.
Among the goodies is a pack of Cell-O-Mints, which seem to be postage-stamp-sized slivers of some kind of uaearthly mint plastic.
“It’s like a condom for your tongue!”
Alicia, 8/26/01 7:53 pm
ZDNet: Palm busy buying software maker Be. Some notes on legacy applications and licenses:
Be’s future with the eVilla appears shaky.
“The OS will continue to be supported within eVilla,” Sony spokeswoman Gretchen Griswold said. However, Griswold said, how that will occur is unclear. Among the options under consideration is having Palm support the eVilla OS, she said.
However, Palm said it has no plans to further develop the Be operating system as a standalone OS.
“We don’t plan to take on the Sony license for eVilla. We may decide to provide some transitional support for Sony if we can structure it appropriately,” Somsak said.
The official Be press release. Commentary at osnews.com.
c|net: Be: A long history of almost
16 Aug
2001
Palm acquires assets from Be for $11MM in PALM while hiring away key talent.
≡ 9:33 am ≡ be palmsource
Palm acquires assets from Be for $11MM in PALM while hiring away key talent.
Dave Winer has written an epitaph.
There’s a story at the dot.
c|net: “The Palm-Be deal marks a rather inglorious end to the company that Gassee launched when he left Apple in 1990.”
In other news, the previous head of the platform group has resigned.
13 Aug
2001
I love that there are people who have discovered technique to developing a psychological addition to caffeine:
≡ 10:50 pm
I love that there are people who have discovered technique to developing a psychological addition to caffeine:
The key to caffeine addiction is to take it regularly, on the clock. Have a large cup of coffee about 45 minutes after you wake up every day; your performance will be accelerated, and after a couple weeks you’ll be worthless without it.
from the bulletin board for diesel sweeties
My wife is in Houston this weekend. I’m so bored!
