http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net Silicon Valley Media and Technology Commentary by Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-25T16:52:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/292 Sand Hill Road envies RAMBUS. Oh, they don't envy them their lawsuits, precarious business model or turbulent management structure. But they do envy them their ruthless monopoly of the high-speed DRAM market. RAMBUS successfully competed against the ...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-25T16:52:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/291 Jim Gray was lost at sea a year ago, but he is not forgotten. His family has joined with UC Berkeley, the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society to hold a day of technical sessions in his memory on Saturday, May 31, 2008 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley....... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-22T20:09:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/290 Well, SCO got a big Valentine's treat last week - a $100M potential investment by the very politically-connected Stephen Norris Capital Partners (an equity firm) and their "partners from the Middle East" to lift the firm out of the morass of Chapter ...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-20T22:35:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/289 Stanley Fish of the NYTimes today explored the "hate Hillary" movement, something that he said he was reluctant to do "because of a fear that it would advance the agenda that is its target", in other words, embolden Hillary haters into sending him mo...... Lynne Jolitz 2008-02-04T20:55:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/288 SV is buzzing about former Mobius VC Heidi Roizen's new vanity music CD Skinny Songs. Since leaving the investment game, Heidi decided to dedicate herself to losing weight (don't you wish you had the time and money to do that?), but was dissatisfied ...... Lynne Jolitz 2007-12-17T21:31:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/287 Almost everyone I know likes to claim that they are "middle class". Yes, I know I live in Los Gatos, a nice little town that in many ways resembles Santa Monica or La Jolla. We've got a great library, a Christmas parade (I once marched in it with my ...... Lynne Jolitz 2007-12-17T20:08:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/286 The Lori Drew case has hit the media this week, and the reaction is fairly universal - how could a mother behave in such a shameless narcissistic evil manner to drive a young girl to suicide? The anonymous use of the Internet and MySpace to bully thi...... Lynne Jolitz 2007-12-01T22:42:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/285 With the announcement of Android, the Google open source mobile platform, there has been breathless talk of Google taking out the "locked" cellphone market with a Linux OS version. But we all know there are many open source Linux OS mobile versions a...... Lynne Jolitz 2007-11-06T19:01:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/284 Well, the Nobel Peace Prize committee decided that global climate change is important enough to award the Nobel to Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Some are already protesting that concerns over rapid changes in the envir...... Lynne Jolitz 2007-10-13T06:42:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/283 OK, I admit it. The New York Times has gotten rid of their notorious "Times Select" racket, and I've been busily catching up on all the columns that didn't make the grade (the moderator likes politics) on Behind the Times. And so I've been glancing t...... Lynne Jolitz 2007-09-20T18:36:00Z http://lynnesblog.telemuse.net/282 My daughter is studying the play "Judgment at Nuremberg" by Abby Mann for English Lit, so for fun we decided to rent the wonderful 1961 movie version and watch it together as a family. The play depicts the trial of four judges who committed crimes un...... Lynne Jolitz 2007-09-18T00:55:00Z