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Saturday, January 17, 2004 |
 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. Excellent French movie (subtitles). It will be a US movie in the next two years. Cast? Keira Knightley as the lead. Parminder Nagra as the girl friend (so far it is Bend it Bekham). Colin Farrell as the doctor. Charlize Theron as the wife (nice wholesome role after Monster). Worth watching again as a Hollywood movie. I guess the huge HSX success I had (one of the top players out of 330,000 participants) is going to my head. ;->
7:49:04 PM 
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Rubin's deficit report (PDF). Basically, it projects that on our current course we will go bankrupt around ~2040. At that point debt payments accelerate beyond our ability to pay them. Much of the spending identified in the report is locked in. What is troubling is that these projections don't take into account potential crisis situations (like 9/11, Iraq, financial shocks, etc.) that can radically increase short term deficits. Of course, this probably won't happen. Don't bet against America. Unfortunately, the current fiscal mess is going to make the clean-up much harder. Deficits do matter.
11:07:06 AM
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William Lind on how the Marines are going to operate in Iraq later this year. Does anybody think this kinder and gentler approach will work?
10:26:49 AM
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BTW: LinDVD would be great as tablet PC enhancement. A true PMP (personal media player) with a large screen.
9:50:06 AM
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Fortune. Management gurus have arrived with a business oriented version of the Clue-Train (and they are going to make a mint on this):
This new style of business, birthed by the Internet, is ignored at any company's peril. In an excellent new book, The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers, authors C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy describe the consumer's new role: "from isolated to connected, from unaware to informed, from passive to active." .... In the bottom-up economy, presuming you know what the customer wants is the ultimate error. Prahalad and Ramaswamy instead call for "co-creation of value": The successful products and services from now on will be those developed jointly—company and customer working hand in hand.
9:45:52 AM
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This makes 9/11 sound like the Reichstag fire:
In one of the ACLU's examples of mistreatment, retired steelworker Bill Neel, 66, was handcuffed in western Pennsylvania after refusing police orders to take his sign to the designated "free speech zone," a baseball field a mile from the president. Neel's sign declared, "The Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us."
First Amendment Zones??? Where do we live??
12:29:58 AM
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