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CNNMoney: “Silicon Graphics Inc., a struggling maker of high-performance business computers, Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a round of restructuring measures failed, sending its shares plunging”.

Paul Kedrosky: “The PC companies nuked DEC and the minicomputer companies, and then Sun blew up SGI (sort of), and now Google is giving Microsoft fits. It’s very rare, however, that one of those incumbents successfully fights back, making Schwartz’s job at Sun look tough, and making the Microsoft’s struggles with Google all the more painful”.

The press release from SGI.

NewYorkTimes: “Warner Brothers plans to announce today that it will make hundreds of movies and television shows available for purchase over the Internet using BitTorrent software”.

The Warner Bros Bit Torrent news makes the top of Techmeme.

Happy Easter everybody! Hopefully you’ve all had a great weekend. Don’t eat too much chocolate…

Chris Bliss’ juggling rocks.

Loaded pun: “A South Korean company has devloped an lcd projector built into photo and video capable cellphones which projects a seven inch display on flat surfaces”. Watching a film on the beach at night could be pretty neat. Can’t imagine the big cinema chains liking this one.

BBC News: “Recent estimates say that around a third of all internet traffic is based around BitTorrent”…”Some ISPs go even further, breaking down customers’ net usage into different types of activity, and discriminating against bandwidth-hungry file-sharers”…”What we’re seeing is ISPs introducing tiered services”.

A good YouTube of Peter Jackson picking up his Empire Award together with some out-takes from King Kong.

The Kid from Brooklyn is really not that impressed with Starbucks. If you don’t like the f-word I’d stay away from this but I had to link to it as it just made me laugh so hard when I got into work this morning.

Hey my great friend Val is coming to London next week. I can’t wait. We were at school together in Brussels all those years ago. She’s now a fabulous fashion designer and owns a label called Girls from Omsk. Keep an eye out for her stuff.

Boy it sure has been a busy day, hardly any time even to post little things. If there’s one thing that’s made my life easier today its the wireless headset I just got for my office phone. Sure I look like I’m right out of star trek but when the shit hit the fan it sure made it easier to fix the problem fast.

Heading off to Farbic for a Bloc Party gig and a well deserved beer.