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• Bill Gates and education

  The funny thing about computers is that, despite all of the time they save people, they really can't help us make big decisions yet. Peter Drucker made similar observations many years ago...starting with the famous quote "The computer is a moron". The Read More... Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:42 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Current events

• A short follow up to "Movies and the wisdom of crowds"

  FYI, I'm working on the fifth installment of Optimize your life. Look for that this week. The latest results for the Da Vinci Code show it handily beating expectations ...estimates now show it tracking at 77 million, when estimates had been revised to Read More... Posted Sunday, May 21, 2006 5:17 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Current events

• Summer movies

  Decided to map out what the summer movie schedule is going to look like yesterday: Summer 2006 movie release dates April 28th - Stick it! (because my friend wants to see it) May 5th - Mission Impossible III (tom cruise backlash from women) May 19th - Read More... Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 7:33 PM by rkuo | 1 Comments Filed under: Current events

• Got lucky with the domain name

  According to this article on domain names by Dennis Forbes (I believe he's a frequent Joel on Software poster), about eighty percent of four letter domain names are taken. Guess I lucked out with rkuo.com, huh? Yeah, I was pretty surprised too when I Read More... Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:43 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Current events

• SXSW Interactive - a recap

  Well, I'm finally back in Houston and managed to get a good night's sleep today, so I suppose it's time to review the past few days at SXSW in Austin. First of all, I really enjoyed the conference. Folks were very sociable, it was a nice mix of people Read More... Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:13 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Business, Current events

• SXSW (South by Southwest) and "A Prairie Home Companion"

  So I'm here at South by Southwest for the SXSW Interactive portion of the festival, with a splash of the film festival on the side. So far, this conference is a lot more fun than some of the past conferences I've been to. I believe in part this is due Read More... Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 12:09 PM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Business, Current events

• Mark Cuban, The Donald, a rubber glove, and one million dollars

  In a fit of what must be either divine inspiration or complete lunacy, Mark Cuban has offered to donate a million dollars to charity if Donald Trump will put a rubber glove over his head and blow it up with his nose until it explodes. This would be, of Read More... Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 5:29 AM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Current events