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Bristol-Myers Squibb is taking its foot off the pedal when it comes to consumer drug ads. On June 13, it announced a new policy on advertising. The biggest surprise: Bristol says it will wait at least one year to start pitching newly launched drugs directly to consumers through TV, print, and radio.

About bloody time. Read more.

Tech Steps Up to Back Bono. The Irish rock star's mission to fight poverty in Africa is getting serious support from the likes of Sun, Cisco, AMD, and more.

Anime is Japan's next biggest export. Told you the geeks will inherit the earth.

Media geeks take heed. Information Architecture ain't only for the web.

Apparently there are publications in this town that inflate their circulation numbers. You know. To look good. And now apparently, since AME Info went and got themselves audited (met with them last week and they're bloody good businessmen) now everybody's shaking in their shoes. And you apparently have to make it clear that the media agencies need to find a non-bloody solution and start behaving mature. WHY THE HELL IS EVERYTHING SO WRONG IN THIS DAMN TOWN?! Nobody has any customer data, IT systems don't work, IT managers don't have a clue, upper management comes up with stupid-ass email policies, people go on vacation and work stops because nobody else can sign meaningless HR documents in their stead, production doesn't understand wot Mac compatibility means, VPs are forever on holiday, branding managers think client servicing is a waste of time, designers don't care wot the client wants, web developers can't speak CSS to save their lives, technical leads have to sit on carpets in lonely corners in the corridor outside the office to get work done, project managers constantly erupt in unprecedented shows of anger and frustration, people bypass resource bookings simply because they want to and nobody takes a fucking shower regardless of the fact that it's 45 fucking degrees out there and they smell to high heavens. It's enough to drive one under the desk.

Or quit.

And let me remind you that quitting is not about getting scared or not being able to handle things. Sometimes people quit because they recognize the signs of failure. Loyalty only goes so far. It's not about the bread and butter. It's not even about the perks or lack thereof. At the end of the day, it all boils down to the work. And if the work ain't good and not for lack of trying then it's time to move on.

Tirade over. Back to the news. There are 238 periodicals left.

Breathlessly awaiting WiMAX. I'm all agog with excitement. Big tings mate, big tings.

...if vendors are going to win widespread acceptance, they have to move away from adding wireless technology to products that have limited appeal. Most people won't pay hundreds of dollars for a refrigerator that can connected to the Internet, say analysts.

I would! I would! Can you imagine a world where the internet is everywhere? In your gadgets, on your appliances, in the air! Life would be one big ball of AI with holographic television screens popping up whenever you needed to know something. Oo! Oo! And a help icon! Life would have a help icon! You could F1 a virtual keyboard in your pocket or something in the middle of a tricky business meeting and your brainwaves would activate the inside of your glasses and you could surf the web and come up with intelligent defintions for things and none would be the wiser 'cuz your glasses would be the cool mirrored ones with optional hinge lenses. Life would be like.. would be like.. the Minority Report! Oo!

And with these wireless happy thoughts, I go to bed.