Badger Thoughts

A random eulogy to Steve Jobs I’ve never met Steve Jobs nor am I important enough for anyone in the media to seek a quote from on his passing. But I have as long of a history as anyone with Apple products.  My first computer was an Apple II followed by the IIe, the IIc, [...]

See last week’s post for odds still in play. Among them: Odds on which Yahoo board members will be gone by the end of the month (note: this could be revised and reset next week) Odds that AOL and Yahoo will announce merger within 30 days Our newest odds also involve corporate CEOs (sorry, but [...]

Someone tweeted us the other day with a link (now you know why we call them “twits) to an article that tried to make the case that the only hope for Microsoft’s survival is for it to take Hewlett-Packard’s PC division off its hands. The author invoked the success Apple has had over the years [...]

We first wrote these “10 things” several years ago. From time to time we revisit this list to see if it still holds true. We hope it does–and you can hold us to that. — Google It was late 2001, if the Wayback Machine is to be believed. About a week ago, we had a [...]

For a long time, we’ve been watching Microsoft do its thing. We remember everyone having a 5.25-inch floppy with MS-DOS on it, as it was passed from PC to PC, spreading like kudzu across the nascent industry of localized computing. Whether Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Co. allowed that to happen deliberately or whether it [...]