Month: September 2003

  • I got my paycheck receipt today. Unfortunately, it was for just a day, rather than the month’s pay I was expecting. I called HR and was assured that it was for the last month, and I that was to get this month’s payment tomorrow. After remembering that I began my job on the first of…

  • Property Rights on the Net

    The Internet has often been compared to America’s expanding western frontier during the 19th century. Like all frontiers, it has the potential to create enormous wealth through the exploitation of new technologies by the cowboys of the digital domain. The creation of a global communication network has attracted millions of entrepreneurs who are eager to…

  • Damn you, Cox!

    My Internet connection has been mostly down the last four days, thanks to Cox Internet. I tried to do some off-line activities on my computer like finishing some unfinished essays and doing some coding, but even that seemed futile offline. After looking at a blank screen for a few hours, I resumed reading .NET Enterprise…

  • How to be a Greedy American

    Thanks to Google and M.S.N. for recognizing me as the 3rd highest “Greedy American.” If I could go choose to be known by any one moniker, it would be as a “greedy American.” But this got me to thinking: who are the real greedy Americans? (And how can I capitalize on my search engine hits?)…

  • Bake Sale Anyone?

    SMU shuts down race-based bake sale. The Texas A&M chapter of the YCT is planning the same thing in November.

  • This year’s Open House didn’t yield any great photos, but here is a decent one: For more, go here.

  • Please recycle your scrap metal on someone else's lawn…

    There is a new statue in the business school called “life rhythm.” I pity the poor bastard whose “life rhythm” is described by this junk heap. This is what they picked to represent business? I can think of some superior alternatives…

  • A few interesting stories: Jeff Jacoby says that The War On America Did Not Begin On Sept 11th, Victor Hanson writes that “These Are Historic Times,” and Arthur C Clarke’s dream of a space elevator may be becoming a reality, although the weight of government involvement may ground this project before this elevator goes anywhere.

  • Who is the bigger Apple?

    This is getting ridiculous: The Beatles Sue Apple Computers Over iPod, iTunes The purpose of trademark law is to prevent a business from mooching of another’s success by falsely representing it. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Apple Corps is using it for in this case.

  • Barbie dolls a threat to morality?

    Saudi Arabia’s religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the “Jewish” toy — already banned in the kingdom — are offensive to Islam. For more on the story, see Cox and Forkum.