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another interesting article, this one on the NYTimes. today the papers are full of good stuff . i like this bit:

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And what was Verizon Wireless doing? Taking full advantage of AT&T’s problems to trumpet the reliability of its own network. Network reliability, in fact, became its core selling point: it may not have had the world’s sexiest phone, but at least the phones it sold worked. As it turns out, there are millions of people who care about having phones that work — they’re just not the cool people. Like CBS, which gets ratings with programming for Middle America, Verizon Wireless kept adding subscribers by catering to the unhip.
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thu evening, one of my favorite times of the week. reading the paper, brazil flash floods, rough. ios 4.3 beta. frigid cold out on the streets of new york city right now. waiting for amazon to carry the canon s95 at a reasonable price, crazy.

BTW, going skiing this weekend to hunter mountain, rented an SUV, it's only a 2 hour drive.

we had our second big blizzard yesterday, but this time things were quite different. when we stepped out on the street this morning, we were almost run over by 6 giant snow plowing trucks, in a 3x2 staggered formation. quite impressive. there was no snow at all on 5th avenue by early morning. the news said 1,900 trucks (!) plowing the city last night.

weather is still quite chilly, it's supposed to be 29 (max)/14 (min) by Friday, ouch.

In other tech news, sounds like Google will be removing support for H.264 from Chrome, a shame. It's a great standard, but royalties are involved to create content, so Google won't use it. The growing split on the Internet between H.264 and now it's growing royalty-free competitor WebM is likely to cause problems for content producers looking to use HTML5 to display video content on the Internet.

It is unclear how Google's removal of H.264 from Chrome will affect Google's other web services, particularly YouTube.