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LA's analysis of Google Apps
in The CIO Weblog, on September 10, 2009
... of its IT operations from on-premises based systems to Google Apps. The spin on the article is the irony of the city's proposed funding for the transition, more than half of which consists of fun...
Beautiful, Lush Kauai
in Wandalust, on August 28, 2009
...ful garden, and visitors to Hawaii do well to included it in their plans.
USA Today points out the irony of the movie supposedly set on Kauai ( A Perfect Getaway ): it's filmed mostly in Puerto R...
The Google-Apple collision course: why Schmidt had to go
in Sox First, on August 4, 2009
... was always going to happen. Google and Apple are two asteroids on a collision course. The ultimate irony is that Google is now a big threat to Apple. And it makes anything that clumsy old Microsoft o...
Britain to lose AAA rating, US is next
in Sox First, on May 24, 2009
...utting pressure on governments around the world for stimulus spending. And of course, the perverse irony is that the US is running up a budget deficit to save the financial firms that had been given ...
Kapalua Saved. PGA Sighs With Relief
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 8, 2009
...vations to its hotel and villas.
See how s**t flows downhill?
With more than a hint of unintended irony, Commissioner Finchem declared that it was an indication that the Tour needed to be "spre...
Swatch Watches
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...developments have been taking place alongside the standard Swatch watch in plastic - from Irony (the metal Swatch) to the Swatch SKIN Chrono (the world's thinnest chronograph) to Swatch Snowpass (...
Will GM and Chrysler go bust?
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
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Irony of ironies. Will the bailout of US automakers lead to them going out of business? Will it send GM and Chryler bankrupt? That's the question now being raised. As Forbes points out, the...
The Madoff debacle: how did people get sucked in?
in Sox First, on December 14, 2008
...mself as a champion of transparency. As Monica Gagnier in BusinessWeek notes, there is a profound irony here. Secondly, he generated steady returns with an average annual rate of 11%-13%, year in a...
Sox First birthday
in Sox First, on November 21, 2008
...s ago, I was invited to write about ethics, governance and Sarbanes-Oxley. Being an Australian, the irony was not lost on me. Since then, I've had an absolute ball. I've made some great frien...
Second Life Affair Leads to Divorce in Real Life
in Web 2.0, on November 17, 2008
...n 'affair' with on Second Life - even though they have never actually met in real life. One irony here is that Taylor met her husband, David Pollard, in an Internet chat room. And she is also ...
Second Life's Economy Mirroring Real Life?
in Web 2.0, on November 6, 2008
... game and they recently raise the price of the cheapest available real estate by $50 a month. The irony is That the problem in Second Life is much the same as the problem in the real world: the ...
Hedge funds pummelled by Porsche and VW
in Sox First, on October 30, 2008
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There is a wonderful irony in the way hedge funds now are up for billions of dollars in losses after making a wrong bet on Germany's Volkswagen. As The Wall Street Journal tells us, they bet...
Milk Crisis: The World is Watching,,,
in China Venture News, on September 30, 2008
...s of face, and this is absolutely the worst thing that can happen.
"We beg to differ.... The irony, as The Australian points out, is that China is more nationalistic now than before the crisi...
Cant't Afford to Travel Overseas: Visit Vegas
in The Flyaway Weblog, on September 28, 2008
...t my husband loves it. Actually, once I get there, I can sometimes enjoy the rather kitsch sense of irony that characterizes the entire town. Nonetheless, here I am in Vegas. My husband got one of tho...
Oh, The Irony
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 22, 2008
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Amy Schoenfeld of the New York Times should be feeling very proud of herself for this paragraph that leads off a story on the Treasury Department teaching young people how to handle credit :
The Treasury Department started a campaign last week to educate Americans about the...
The Difference Between Chinese Banks and American Banks
in China Venture News, on September 18, 2008
...oth US and Chinese banks (I guess since China buys so many treasury notes).
And he points out the irony that five years ago American banks were bemoaning the fact that 20-30% the loans at Chinese ba...
D&G Dolce & Gabbana Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on August 12, 2008
... a world of its own within the universe of Dolce & Gabbana : a world where fashion means irony and fantasy, where music plays a key role to re-define style, and where even the most traditional it...
Starbucks Moving Jobs To China?
in China Venture News, on July 18, 2008
... Bloomberg pointed out the irony this week: Starbucks may be shutting down stores in the U.S., but it is investing more heavily in China at the same time.
Starbucks is closing 600 U.S. outlets and g...
A Roof for War, a Landscape for Peace, Lockheed to Subaru
in Classical Drives, on June 27, 2008
...ides. Who's to doubt that someone might not have tipped off the enemy? In a delightful twist of irony, Subaru's Indiana plant landscape is a "designated backyard wildlife habitat."...
London: Off the Beaten Path
in The Flyaway Weblog, on June 2, 2008
...pounds to enter the London Dungeon Museum. Good grief! As if London was not expensive enough!
The irony here, is the fact that the one thing that mitigates the expense of a trip to London is its fre...
Trump Waits While Lawrie Celebrates
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 25, 2008
Courtesy: worldgolf.com
Scottish golfer Paul Lawrie has been given the go-ahead to construct a golf resort and housing development on greenbelt land in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Yes, that's the same Aberdeenshire where Donald Trump had been fighting a losing PR battle to build his own...
荒诞的Google图片搜索
in 西行资讯, on 2007-11-23
看到一则有关 Google图片搜索的笑话 ：本意是让Google搜索RSS图标[ RSS icon ]，没想到竟然返回了一个非常养眼的怪异结果。
New Disclaimers for Man vs. Wild
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 7, 2007
... and the Patagonian plains.
"I hope they go down well," Grylls says. "I think the irony is that people are going to enjoy seeing more behind the scenes. It's going to make the wh...
Keyboarding Not Responsible for Carpal Tunnel
in The Gadgets Weblog, on November 5, 2007
...el issues. If you follow my work online, you might wonder when I'm not behind a keyboard. The irony here is that my wife has more carpal tunnel problems than I do, and she averages less than a...
This Week on the Soaps
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 3, 2007
...nsors and tour officials settle on tournament dates. The players agree to play or not to play.
The irony in this episode is that Els missed the cut by a stroke yesterday in Singapore.
End of story...
Stakeholder vs shareholder capitalism
in Sox First, on October 23, 2007
...thematical model, the paper finds that stakeholder firms have lower output and higher prices which, irony of ironies, makes them more valuable than companies that just exist for their shareholders. T...
More Conrad Black weirdness
in Sox First, on October 22, 2007
...ame appears in real ink on a copy of the book in Toronto. The use of technology is not without its irony. Black's book is about Nixon and Nixon was brought undone by tapes, Black by a video recor...
Rooney & Ronaldo: Not the New Morecambe & Wise
in The Soccer Weblog, on September 29, 2007
... really saying anything, are working a little too well. And is it just me or is there no absolutely irony at all when the narrator (Ian Darke?) says "A revealing insight into life behind the scen...
Pee In Here, Please
in Eagle Par Birdie, on September 21, 2007
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The New Drug Czar, Tim Finchem
Courtesy: AP
It was a touch of irony. On the day that a U.S. sports arbitration board found 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis of the United States guilty ...
Remembrance
in Eagle Par Birdie, on September 11, 2007
... week before the PGA Tour took steps to return to normal. The first step was taken, not without sad irony, with the Pennsylvania Classic held just 15 miles from where the third jet had crashed into ...
Free Airport Wi-Fi for the iPhone... from Boingo Wireless?!?
in The Wireless Weblog, on August 2, 2007
...bviously intended to get iPhone types hooked on Boingo - after which they'll have to pay.
The irony, of course, lies in the fact that AT&T, which is supplying the mobile connectivity for the...
Whoops: Duke University Dropout Was Cisco's Fault, not Apple's
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 23, 2007
...s network and there have been no recurrences of the problem since."
"There is a certain irony here, as Cisco and Apple were forced to work together to investigate this problem after the hu...
Language Becomes a Real Issue
in China Venture News, on July 19, 2007
...nt venture in China was slated to be taken over by a new CEO who can't pass the test.
The real irony is that the candidate Goldman Sachs had in mind is Chinese - ethnically, at least. Richard O...
How much time for Conrad Black?
in Sox First, on July 17, 2007
...ius of his home in Toronto. For a list of likely places, go to the National Post . The great irony of this case is that Black cannot apply to serve his time in a more amenable Canadian prison. ...
LINDSAY LOHAN TURNS 21 BUT CANCELS PARTY
in The Celebrities Weblog, on July 1, 2007
...arty for Lindsay Lohan at Las Vegas "Pure" night club has been cancelled.
It is a bitter irony that on the first day of her life when she can drink legally Lindsay has decided to cool her j...
The Premiership is Inferior
in The Soccer Weblog, on June 19, 2007
...e of his old spunk yesterday, with some harsh words for the Premiership, which - without a trace of irony - he branded "an inferior product."
"There's no accounting for bad taste,...
'Sicko' Posted on YouTube, order Shut Down
in The Digital TV Weblog, on June 19, 2007
...Am I the only one who finds the irony in Michael Moore's attempt to shut down the video broadcasting of his newest movie Sicko on YouTube?
According to the WSJ, a "124-minute version o...
Finding Your Voice. Who is Your Audience?
in Bizinformer, on May 28, 2007
...tion that has stopped me in my tracks:
"Who is your audience?"
Okay, are your ready for irony? One of my first posts is about Writing with The Reader in Mind.
And yet I haven't defi...
John McCain: Environmental Insights
in IfEnergy, on April 30, 2007
...is what he said:
``National security depends on energy security. Al-Qaeda must revel in the irony that America is effectively helping to fund both sides of the war they caused. As we sacrifice...
Peter Hill-Wood Has a Sense of Humour
in The Soccer Weblog, on April 27, 2007
...he good grace to add "...albeit with a lot of foreign players."
Glad he appreciates the irony of the Premiership's most foreign club (last count had Justin Hoyte and Theo Walcott as th...
GSeeker Reading List（2007.04.24）
in GSeeker, on 2007-04-25
GSeeker Reading List 是一个推荐阅读列表，我会把我每天阅读过的觉得有价值而我自己又没时间写进blog里的一些文章加进这里，希望大家能了解更多与Google相关的消息。这个列表在当天可能会有数次更新。
* Omniture: A Radar Screen For E-biz
Google第一季的强劲表现告诉我们，它依然是硅谷的明星。但事实上，Omniture才是增长最快的公司。
* DoubleClick: We don't own consumer data
Google 用31亿美元现金收购DoubleClick 后，由于宣布会将自己服务...
What Will Make SMS More Popular
in The Smart PDA, on March 27, 2007
...o longer think that texts are too costly nor undependable for their daily communication needs.
The irony is that as the rates go lower, usage will increase. In other words, lowering prices will turn ...
What Is The Message?
in IfEnergy, on March 23, 2007
...President George W. Bush thanking car manufacturers for producing energy efficient vehicles and the irony of the president doing so and spending an estimated 1,000 (? thats a lot) barrels of oil to de...
Michael Oxley: gamekeeper turned poacher (Part II)
in Sox First, on March 19, 2007
...ame. Then last week, Nasdaq announced he was joining their team as vice-chairman. The delicious irony is that he will be reporting to Nasdaq president and chief executive officer Bob Greifeld who ...
Solar Power in Hydro-Rich Nepal
in IfEnergy, on February 28, 2007
...a great percentage of the population does not enjoy the benefits of electricity. The second biggest irony that I have heard about Nepal is the fact that they are putting up Solar Power. Run that by me...
VirtualTourist - Real Travelers - Real Info. Interview de Giampiero Ambrosi, General Manager of VirtualTourist
in Les Explorers, on février 25, 2007
...member the genuine, rural Italy of my childhood in the 1970s. It's an irony that at the moment our travels are somewhat limited by our work on new developments.
>Hotel :
There is a secret ...
Liability caps ahead
in Sox First, on January 25, 2007
...other words, if it happens in Europe first, the US will follow and vice versa. There is a touch of irony here. Revenues at the Big Four - PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Tou...
Fat Finger SEO Marketing
in The Search Engine Weblog, on January 11, 2007
...re this blatant fact because they think that going after these errors is just a waste of time.
The irony is that major search engines recognize these errors and make several suggestions to the user. ...
PC Mag Executive Product Director is a Mac User
in The Gadgets Weblog, on December 27, 2006
...to Mac OS and are confused about how things operate.
A coworker sent me this piece because of the irony of the writer's position, but to be honest, I think it would be truly odd if the editor-in...
Keyword Flooding is a Big No-No!
in The Search Engine Weblog, on December 22, 2006
...Using more than 12 keywords in each title tag is already an abuse - it's too much! However, the irony of it is that several webmasters would load web pages with overwhelming - say 100 keywords. Th...
Now That's What I Call Irony: Volume I
in XboxSpace, on December 3, 2006
There's something wrong with the headline above - isn't there?
The PS3 might make babies cry and rubick's cubes explode... but there's one thing that it does not do - rumble .
I'm not sure if Circuit City didn't get the memo or what, but they're definitely u...
Election Results Won't Change Lack of Money to Invest in Science and Tech
in Philoneist, on November 9, 2006
...(Things remain tight at NASA nonetheless, as any astrobiologist will tell you.)
A little-noticed irony in these election results comes from Sugarland, Texas, where former Rep. Nick Lampson (D) won ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 12
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 25, 2006
...ns in ways that employees further down the food chain could never get away with:
"The supreme irony of business management is that it is far easier for an inadequate CEO to keep his job than it ...
Bordeaux - Too Good a Season?
in Celebrate Wine, on September 21, 2006
...ine and lower than expected prices for wine makers.
More from The Observer :
It is the ultimate irony. For the wine growers of Bordeaux, already suffering a financial crisis, the season has been t...
McDonald's Funds Obesity Research
in Daily Diabetic, on September 16, 2006
...uilty conscience? An attempt to divert attention away from accusations? Or just a delicious case of irony? McDonald's had people scratching their heads in wonder after the announcement that the fa...
Interview With Mary Hunt
in Bizinformer, on August 23, 2006
...make buying a car easy and even fun..." Who do you think I called? That's right, Dave. The irony is that Dave didn't write that letter. It was crafted by the women sitting next to him. I ...
Microsoft IPod 'Killer' Is Doomed
in The Digital TV Weblog, on August 2, 2006
...esistance effectively forces Microsoft to compete with a copy-restricted alternative.
This a rich irony, given how badly the record labels would love to see someone -- anyone -- create real competit...
Friendship Cup Ends In Fight
in The Soccer Weblog, on July 31, 2006
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image: mattthered.com
Alanis Morissette defined irony as "ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife." Alanis Morisette was wrong.
If only she'd been in Argentina ...
Labels Pick on Someone Their Own Size - Yahoo
in P2P File Sharing, on July 4, 2006
...to filter results. This greatly reduces the impact of their arguments and credibility.
The second irony is that while the IFPI appears to have the law on its side, it would be a pyrrhic victory. Thi...
Labels Pick on Someone Their Own Size - Yahoo
in Digital Music - The Future, on July 4, 2006
...to filter results. This greatly reduces the impact of their arguments and credibility.
The second irony is that while the IFPI appears to have the law on its side, it would be a pyrrhic victory. Thi...
P2P war escalation? Hardly.
in P2P File Sharing, on June 13, 2006
...on. That's just the ante to attempt to make a similar impact over the Bit Torrent network.
The irony is that while more sites are being attacked, the actions are far less effective, due to the di...
Ken Rolston of Oblivion Speaks
in XboxSpace, on May 23, 2006
...ity to indulge my puckish impulses. I was never tempted... much. I was content to confine myself to irony and humor of situation rather than farce and black comedy.
I greatly admire and enjoy wacky, ...
NEWEST CELEBRITY FACE FIXER
in The Celebrities Weblog, on May 17, 2006
...ot was loaded with its patron's gas loving, air polluting, mammoth SUVs.
You just have to love irony.
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SEC's bad report card
in Sox First, on April 27, 2006
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The irony is just too much. The Government Accountability Office has found that material weaknesses in the Securities and Exchange Commission's internal controls identified in an audit of the ...
Wisconsin All Set To Become the First State to Ban Mandatory Implants
in The RFID Weblog, on April 25, 2006
...echt, a New Hampshire privacy advocate and co-author of Spychips said:
What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the f...
Bayer Says: You Eat Too Much
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2006
...os considering the indigestion the contestants would no doubt experience, it's hard to miss the irony of a gluttony contest being sponsored by a health care company.
Apparently, Bayer now feels...
Darn It All to Heck
in The Parenting Weblog, on January 27, 2006
... via Creative Reporter
She swears like a drunken sailor on her blog The Underpaid Kept Woman , the irony of which is not lost on her.
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The End of the Hotspot
in The Wireless Weblog, on January 13, 2006
... attractive option by far. It's all about timing -- as ARCchart puts it, "The unfortunate irony for hotspot operators is that, now that their networks are widely deployed and Wi-Fi laptops h...
