The cord is too long for a Mac user like myself, it just plugs into the keyboard. I didn't have reboot or install any software. My Mac found the mouse with no problem. A 6 inch cord would be all that is necessary for a Mac. Scrolling, tracking, double clicking is not a problem with Mac OS X Leopard. No need to run the installation CD.

Six inches. Let me know when you find the manufacturer that agrees that six inches is a good length for a mouse cable. Or any other human.

Look out.

Instead Mitra wondered what would happen if he left a computer out in the open for a group of children to discover. So he literally knocked a hole in the office wall to the slum on the other side.  He shoved a computer in the hole and set up a camera on a tree limb to record what happened. A 13-year-old, illiterate kid who’d never seen a computer wandered over tentatively, and soon realized he could move the cursor by moving a finger across the touch pad. Within four hours, a small group of kids had gathered. They had figured out how to open Internet Explorer and were playing a game on Disney’s Web site. “All of us were absolutely shocked watching that,” says Abhishek Gupta who heads the program now. Some expected the kids to break or even try to steal the computer.

Interesting article about an effort to offer computer education Indian children in the slums. It's backed by a for-profit model (or a for-break-even model perhaps) to make it more sustainable.

I believe that people who don’t see what Google Wave is for are simply looking at it from the wrong angle. Wave is not a social tool. It’s not Twitter, it’s not GTalk, it’s not Facebook. It was never designed to appeal to the crowds of geeks who are currently trying it out.

Wave is built for the corporate environment. It’s a tool for getting work done. And as far as those go, it’s an excellent tool, even at this very early stage.

I finally took Google Wave for a spin. Which means, I received an invitation, logged in, clicked around, and stared blankly. At the time of posting, this informal poll said that 56% of Wave users do just that - log in and stare blankly.

Make sure you click through to read the article I linked to above - I believe the author is onto something. And the way he frames the question is good - "What problems does Google Wave solve?".

It's not a twitter killer, email killer, etc. It's not a social networking tool. I think if anything, hits at the wiki market. Wave could create a lower barrier of entry for people to start collaborating like they would on a wiki. Without the administration of a wiki or trying to figure out how to keep the wiki organized.

For me, my clients probably aren't going to adopt Google Wave as their standard tool for collaboration. So I might occasionally be able to collaborate with individuals, on small projects - like something with my wife, or our church, etc.

As further gadgets and applications are developed (and as adoption increases), I'm sure the game will change - but for now, that's how I see it.

Chipotle is succeeding thanks to an elegantly simple business model, one its 42-year-old founder and CEO, Steve Ells, can sum up in a single sentence: "Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else," he says of a menu that contains only three items: burritos, tacos, and salads. (The last was added only in 2005.)

Good stuff. I mean, the principle. But the burritos too. Saw this at Signal vs. Noise.