20 Oct 2005
Welcome back. Today we have a celebrity inspired term, Mea Culpa. Recently Bill Gates used it when describing MS’s failure to dominate the online music industry. “Mea culpa” is a latin phrase uttered to accept guilt. It translates to “my fault.” I think people like using the phrase because it is psychologically easier to say [...]
29 Jun 2005
Ooh. Today we have a Latin term- ad hominem Ad hominem is an adjective that describes an argument that appeals to personal considerations. It is most commonly used to describe arguments that attack a person instead of their logic. For example- Adam Curry thinks Apple should add wireless capabilities to their iPods. Adam Curry is [...]
24 Dec 2004
You can listen to any podcast by just clicking on the podcast icon. In most cases your browser will begin playing the podcast. In some cases your browser may fire up a helper program that will play the podcast. To Subscribe—And this is what makes an recording a Podcast: Subscribing is free. Subscribing just mean [...]
22 Dec 2004
Yesterday’s word got me to thinking and reading about word creation and where new words come from. This of course led me to a new new word- neologism. It is a word that has two meanings. The first is a new word or term. It can refer to a meaningful word like podcasting or it [...]