Portland is either Arcata, CA plus grow-ups, or Petaluma on steroids.
Vancouver, WA, just across the river from Portland, is more like Texas. They had a car show downtown for old Cadillacs, and everybody got a trophy, which made it like one of those “everybody is special” sports leagues for kids run by PC people. [...]
No hot blog action for a while, as I’m motoring up to the Portland, Oregon area for a fairly extended stay. I’ve got a client in the consumer products business up there, and we need to put our heads together on the future of some of their key technologies and build the next big thing. [...]
Unstrung spills the beans on another smart antenna startup:
Motia is working on 802.11 chipsets that will incorporate “smart antenna” technology, similar to that being offered by Airgo and Vivato Inc., Unstrung has learned. Systems using a smart antenna approach use multiple antennas to transmit signals in an effort to improve the consistency of the link.
This [...]
Susan Estrich reports that Arianna Huffington’s kids have moved in with their father, out of disgust at her insincere run for the governor’s office. When parents are divorced, kids move all the time, but for the Waffle Queen, this is a serious thing, threatening to interrupt her sole source of income, the massive child support [...]
Unstrung reports that yet another company — Airgo Networks — has a WiFi chipset for sale, after a mere three-and-a-half years of development and venture capital. Analysts are skeptical of Airgo’s chances, based on its timing relative to forthcoming high-rate wireless standards, such as 802.11n:
Ken Furer, analyst at IDC wonders whether enterprise customers are really [...]
The Dean spam story is finally making the rounds, and even Instapundit has finally commented on it:
Blogs were on this story before MSNBC — or I — knew about it. Here’s a post with the actual Dean spam.
Actually, I e-mailed Instant about the Dean scam on the 11th, but he must not be [...]
The latest installment of the Hitchens/Said match is in The Atlantic: Where the Twain Should Have Met.
Via Roger L. Simon, who’s got some smart comments collected as well.
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Matt Welch is on Arianna watch this week, and he’s busted her twice on 187 and immigration. If evidence of her hypocrisy keeps piling up, people might take her seriously as one of the lying liars who tells political lies.
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OK, this Salon interview that’s supposed to make Arnie look like a fascist nutjob has won me over:
Salon person: What do you see as the most pressing problem in the inner city today?
Arnie: The parenting problem. A lot of minorities have such a problem with the single-parent situation. The parents are the single most [...]
Huffington’s Manager Also Works as a Lobbyist
The campaign manager hired by gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington, who frequently blames “high-priced lobbyists” and “special-interest money” for California’s ills, is himself a lobbyist for major tobacco, gambling and waste hauling firms in his home state of Minnesota.
Arianna’s hypocrisy sets new records every day.
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