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Yakov at work won this thing where we got a buch of Jamba Juice drinks on Friday (you know, one of those where you drop your business card into a bowl and they draw it). We also got gift cards. Just checked out mine online, it has $10, cool .

Temperatures continue to drop, clearning feeling like the summer is over.

I will be in Pittsburg. Actually, Carnegie Mellon. Leaving on a early flight, 6 am . Should be back in the evening.

Lots of activity today with the leak of Yahoo's intent to copy "facebook" a couple of days ago by creating Yahoo Mash.

Also of notice, the launch of Spiralfrog, free (legal) music downloads. The way they do it by splitting the site ad revenue with the music companies. The site was pretty sluggish these past couple of days, and also quite buggy. After failing the captcha test, I just refreshed the page and it let me through anyway. The captcha image in itself is pretty lame, wouldn't be that hard to decode via a machine. Feels like the code has been rushed to get to market quicker. Half the images don't even come up either, they are having all kinds of load problems. But what really kills the deal is that they force you to install a "download manager", so weak.

Very good NYTimes article about Apple, and how they may have missed the opportunity to gain significant market share. Highly recommended. I particularly like one of the ending paragraphs:

"However, the opportunity for Apple that has been opened by Vista’s introduction is temporary. Mr. Kay, of Endpoint, described a Microsoft operating system and its thousands of certified supporting hardware vendors and the two million device drivers as forming an enormous flywheel."

“It takes a lot of energy to spin it up,” he said, “but once it gets going, it’s virtually unstoppable.”