I had a bit of a twenty-five year reunion tonight here in Charlotte, where I’m working for the next day or two. Remember how I tracked down some old friends last month when their high school reunion was held? One of those old friend was my buddy Doug Yoch, who happens to live in Charlotte now. I wrote him an email this morning letting him know I was in town and tonight we met up for dinner and drinks.
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Travis gets sick for his birthday
It seemed so out of place for a doctor to pronounce Travis healthy at his Friday checkup and for Travis to be in the emergency room the following night. That’s how it was here yesterday.
Fuji’s idea of customer service
After hearing the doorbell ring yesterday I opened the door to find a long-awaited delivery: Kelly’s digital camera that had been sent in to Fuji to be repaired. It has been six weeks since she sent her Finepix F470 off to the factory and she had really been missing it. I put the box on her desk, letting her have the pleasure of opening it when she returned.
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Cheap Thoughts: Fear
What is the antidote to fear?
Understanding.
Only thing going up now is the cost of war
I was reading the headlines lately about China’s current space mission, where their satellite is set to begin orbiting the moon in a few weeks. Then today I read about Syria cleaning up the mysterious industrial site allegedly bombed by Israeli planes last month. The imagery included with that article reminded me of the great site Intrepid Earth, a showcase for the satellite imagery to be found on Google Earth.
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Facebook’s worth fifteen billion? I think not.
Okay, that’s it. Money truly doesn’t mean anything anymore. Its all paper, worthless paper. I learned today that Microsoft just paid $240 million for a 1.6% share in Facebook.
Facebook, for crying out loud! And Microsoft’s quarter billion got them less than two percent of it!
I’m all for people being rewarded for their innovations, but Facebook is just another stupid social networking site. Where’s the lock-in? What’s to keep the next fad-du-jour from suddenly stealing their users? Remember Friendster? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Give it up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for hoodwinking Ballmer on this. He’s pulled off the con of the century.
Google query of blog spam sites
Here’s only a quick extract of sites set up to blog-spam everybody. If any of the sites in this list try to add a trackback to your blog you should delete the trackback: its spam.
I’ve written their hosting provider, Liquidweb. Let’s see if they bother to do anything.
hhgregg opens today
I read with interest in today’s paper that hhgregg is opening up two stores in Raleigh today. Being a geek, the more electronics stores the better. Then I read further in today’s article that the salespeople work on commission.
Whoopsie.
That’s the very reason I don’t go into Circuit City anymore (well, that and their disastrous backing of Divx): no one wants a salesperson hanging on you like a cheap suit. While you may sometimes have trouble finding a salesperson in Best Buy, if you’re clueful about what you need you can save yourself a bunch of hassle.
I’ll give hhgregg a try but the minute I get hassled in the store I’m switching back to Best Buy.
Travis is three years old today
Its hard to believe its been three years since this picture was taken. Today is Travis’s birthday. Like the proud, geeky father I am I blogged about his birth right before, an hour after, and alittle later after he was born.
More about T, as well as Hallie, on the Hallie And Travis site.
Happy birthday, T!
Let’s Rock
Let’s Rock
Smash Mouth
(G. Camp)
Lately I’ve been thinkin’ about the past
About the good times
And have they all come and gone
And are there more years behind than ahead
Then I say to myself
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