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Spotty Blogging Ahead: Thank Lessig

Mike Cassidy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:59:39 +0000

For Friday I’m writing about Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig and his practice to go off the digital grid for one month a year. The column will appear here early Friday. I’m inspired. My family and I are off for a first-hand look at the mess that is summer air travel — flying to Chicago en route [...]

Film About Bagby Murders to Reach Much Larger Audience

Mike Cassidy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:47:57 +0000

Good news on “Dear Zachary,” a film I wrote about before my current incarnation as a business columnist. The documentary about a Sunnyvale native who was murdered by his ex-girlfriend, who went on to have the man’s baby and then kill the child in a murder-suicide will be released in theaters and aired on MSNBC. I first [...]

Hue Do’s Love Story Ends

Mike Cassidy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:04:50 +0000

Hue Do’s daughter called to say her father had passed away. I met Hue Do back when Silicon Valley Dispatches was called South Bay Dispatches. I found him at Oak Hill cemetery, sitting on the ground where he sat ever day for hours. At age 80, he’d take two buses to the cemetery and walk with [...]

Hue Do 1915-2008; Original Column

Mike Cassidy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:02:40 +0000

KEEPING LOVE ALIVE HUSBAND MOVES MOUNTAINS TO VISIT WIFE ‘WHO BOOSTED ME TO MAKE A FUTURE’ Published: Sunday, May 21, 1995 Edition: Morning Final< Section: Local Page: 1B Memo: South Bay Dispatches Illustration: Photos (2) Source: MIKE CASSIDY column Hue Do had come to the San Jose cemetery as he does nearly every day. He had taken one bus to another bus to the Oak [...]

Have Chrysler Execs Ever Actually Driven a Car?

Mike Cassidy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:07:04 +0000

I always wondered how the world would end. Now I know. Chrysler will start offering wireless Web access in 2009 models, the LA Times says. Armageddon. Days of Reckoning. The End Days. It’s over friends. Why don’t they just offer a handgun with each ‘09 Sebring? Or how about a gas can and box of matches? Did I [...]

Pandora Founder Frets About Royalty Fees

Mike Cassidy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:45:17 +0000

Today’s column comes from my recent morning at Pandora radio’s shabby chic Oakland offices. Full disclosure: I love Pandora (as I’ve written before). It’s perfect for a guy like me who loves music, but hasn’t taken the time to keep up with what the kids are listening to. I can plug in my hit list: Led Zeppelin, [...]

More Grim News for Newspaper Companies

Mike Cassidy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:05:58 +0000

The McClatchy Co. is laying off 10 percent of its newspaper workers and let’s just say it’s getting pretty hard to be optimistic here at your local word factory. I was a McClatchy employee for about 45 seconds back in 2006 when the Sacramento-based company (now the third largest newspaper company in the nation) bought Knight [...]

You Make How Much?

Mike Cassidy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:55:34 +0000

Today’s column is about a new Web site launched to let Silicon Valley workers (and others) check out how much the guy or woman in the next cubicle is making. The site also lets worker bees post reviews of their company’s cultures, strategies, neuroses etc. The company, officially Glass Door, is getting a lot of blogish buzz. [...]

Buzz Brin: To Infinity and Beyond

Mike Cassidy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:03:06 +0000

Has Google’s board really thought this Segey in Space thing out? Have they really pondered Sergey Brin’s plan to go from major shareholder to Maj. Tom? I mean, sure Google is hip, cool, cutting edge, footloose, fancy free, well fed — or that’s certainly the image corporate image makers want to portray. But shooting the chief technologist [...]

Fremont Storage Maker Rides Roadrunner’s Very Fast Coattails

Mike Cassidy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:11:03 +0000

They’re still cheering over in the cubicles of Panasas Inc. at this week’s news that the supercomputer known as Roadrunner blew through the petaflop barrier in tests of the IBM/Los Alamos National Lab science project. Of course we’re all very excited. I mean a petaflop. Who knew we’d even get to write the word in our [...]