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Saturday, January 15, 2005 |
 News from my brother in Iraq. He is doing fine and working hard. He is in charge of the medical team that decides which injuries are sufficiently severe to send a soldier home. Needless to say, he is very busy.
5:21:58 PM 
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T. Saudi Arabia continues to crush the political community that could provide them a level of immunity to a bloody coup d'etat. Fifteen anti-monarchy demonstrators, including a woman, have been sentenced to public lashings and jail terms in Saudi Arabia. The sentences are a signal that the government will not tolerate open opposition despite undertakings to liberalise.
2:45:45 PM
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WP. Global guerrillas in Iraq are getting more effective...."What they're doing is focusing efforts on intelligent attacks on infrastructure, especially oil and electricity," said a senior U.S. diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The number of attacks is down, but the effectiveness of the attacks is up significantly."
"When I see where some of these strikes go, it's obvious they knew exactly where to hit to have a maximum impact," the official said. But it remained unknown whether the technical knowledge came from current employees or officials of Saddam Hussein's deposed Baath Party government who could be working with insurgents.
12:22:34 PM
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Who is going to redo eBay as an immersive MMORPG?
9:56:55 AM
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My teenage son thought my post on gaming terms was my best post yet. He is my in-house expert and has provided me copious spelling and definition clarification on the topic. I agree with John Beck (Onpoint radio interview) that online gaming is providing him lots of life skills. There is lots of stratitification in the gaming world. The top of the heap are the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing games). The quality and complexity of these environments is amazing. The number of people playing (Blizzard just hit 600,000 units on its newest game) is zooming. If you would like a peak into Neal Stephenson's Metaverse (described in Snow Crash), you should be playing these games.
I do think that a gaming interface/environment can be ported to the corporate world. A corporate game interface/environment, if done correctly, would generate amazing productivity improvements and internal competition/cooperation. The best games already include IM/e-mail / auctions / trading / (with add-on)voice / competition / ad-hoc groups(guilds and parties) / rankings / status /professions / etc.
9:28:20 AM
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