DavidNeedle

Long time technology journalist and blogger.

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@garrytan Sending positive healing thoughts for Mom.

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@PoliticusSarah I don’t get why someone calmly breaking down with logic and facts why Trump is a danger to this country is “scary”. Perhaps you suffer from HDS, Hillary Derangement Syndome. I hope you get the help you need Scott.

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@jasonlk @garrytan @larrymagid @GuyKawasaki Amazing. Do we know if in fact that’s what happened?

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@garrytan Garry, I am so glad you found this, I forgot I wrote about the class appearance. It is so great to have this detailed account. Very amusing to read now - fax machines! And some great insight into a young Garry Tan.

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@garrytan @larrymagid @GuyKawasaki Good memory - you just jogged mine. It was definitely the LinkExchange thing. I was doing some writing for a magazine about LinkExchange at the time and I recall now what you were pitching - audacious idea at the time. Apparently the first of many!

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@garrytan @larrymagid @GuyKawasaki Fantastic. I wish I could remember what we talked about at the long gone Good Earth - a favorite restaurant at the time. Kudos to you two for getting in the game so early.

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@garrytan @larrymagid @GuyKawasaki Garry, I completely forgot about that !!!!! The story gets better and better.
If you still want to meet Guy let me know 😃

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@ScottAdamsSays Scott,
Some of us remember during the 2016 campaign you said that Trump was a master of hypnotic technique w/ the way he labels opponents & keeps hammering the message and would win the election - a bold prediction at the time. But now he can apparently do no wrong in your eyes.

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@ashleymayer Did it finally go away? I'm in week six! I'm thinking about going to urgent care this week to get it checked out.

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Sean Kerner has put together a comprehensive list of security threats that stubbornly still haunt us.
https://t.co/usiwaLTtP9

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One of my fav pieces i get to (still) write every year and every year there is no shortage of new eye popping stats too ..
34 #cybersecurity statistics to lose sleep over in 2023 https://t.co/j95rYO44rz via @WhatIsDotCom

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@harrymccracken It’s … right up there! He keeps this up the mock scorn by Jimmy Kimmel may turn real. Not a good move by Matt Damon.

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@harrymccracken The nifty (when it debuted in 1982) is an IXO Telecomputer invented by Bob and Holly Doyle. Basically a remote computer terminal. The initial target market were Fortune 1000 companies and a unit was FedEx'd to the CEOs of all those firms. https://t.co/Xub25sJhjK

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@twcarey @harrymccracken Awwww .... And if I realized you wanted some of my old tech stash Theresa I would have gladly brought a box or two along!

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@harrymccracken @MarkAStout Ha! Y'know ... I think you're right, I think I did buy the floppy drive. Must have got rid of it at some point.

[Harry McCracken @harrymccracken]

My friend David Needle is moving cross-country and entrusted me with a few items he didn’t want to keep, including his Tandy Model 200 laptop. It’s in astoundingly good condition, complete with the vintage Post-It Note on which he wrote the dial-in number for MCI Mail.

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@harrymccracken That's so funny Harry. I actually hadn't opened in quite a while (should have before I gave it you, good place to stash money!) Forgot about the Post-It note. Classic. Surprised I didn't have my MCI Mail password on there!

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@harrymccracken The "transformation" was at Comdex in Las Vegas IIRC.

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@harrymccracken I always got a kick out of seeing that. Steve Jobs looks like the guy who didn't show up for high school yearbook photo day, so they stuck his photo in the back.

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@waitmanb Appreciate the shout out. Man, I really wish I could take credit for many of the Walks into a bar ... lines which are brilliant. It was a copy from a friends email and I didn’t know the original source. But now I do - full credit to where it belongs. https://t.co/fmE3qsUyMU

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IT Leaders discussed the role of AI during the pandemic and longer term implications. https://t.co/gWfOa06aUp @TechTarget @cce2020