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April 17, 2005
Random Notes
From the "adapt or die" department, the folks over at Michigan Technology University have proven the Red Queen Hypothesis. If you're not changing with your environment, you're (literally) dead.
I've always been fascinated by BitTorrent. The basic idea of the "Internet" was fault tolerant communication, and BitTorrent extends this to data (read content). The reality of massive data storage and computational power in (almost) every household makes BitTorrent a huge deal - and companies that base their business on old "switch data" type technology (sharing expensive communications channels) like the telephone company, TV broadcasters, Radio broadcasters, etc. probably need to read my first comment ;-). An example of what I’m talking about is Internet TV.
Big news: according to "reliable sources" (that's Don's sister Kathy), the Middlebury Wine Company guy Andy McCabe SOLD OUT to Hannaford. Yep - the really cool wine guy right in front of Hannaford in Middlebury has exchanged his passion for selling good, affordable wine for mere money when Hannaford bought him out. Seems Hannaford's wine business was not doing so well... Darn - now I have to track this guys down, since there was no other place I knew of to get great wine at great prices.
Posted by pgutwin at April 17, 2005 7:56 AM