• Posted by Tim Jarrett
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Audio from the MIT CIO Symposium

ZDNet: Nine great podcasts from MIT’s CIO Symposium. While the timeliness is questionable (the symposium, of course, was in June), it’s still nice to have this on the record and to allow other people to listen in.
If I recall correctly, particularly interesting sessions were The Habits of Highly Effective IT Leaders, with our own Brian [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On August 15, 2006

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Snakes on a Plane countdown 2: TSA???

Boing Boing: As with gels, liquids: TSA bans mother})(^!#$ snakes from planes. Heh. I give Hollywood a lot of credit, but surely they didn’t arrange a major international terror alert just to promote the movie, did they? Hmm?
Best not to ask. Besides, if they had, the movie would probably be called something else.
From the semi-official [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On August 15, 2006

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Battery recall, from another party

Hot on the heels of my MacBook Pro battery recall (mini-update: still waiting) is a recall from the other side of the force, so to speak. Dell, as reported in dozens of news outlets (Boing Boing, NY Times (who win for the best picture, of a burnt out pickup cab where an overheated battery exploded [...]