i am going to have to move so much crap out of my yahoo when microsoft takes over. i’ll probably just delete everything and let it lay fallow like i do with my a hotmail account.
i only signed up for hotmail to stake the claim to my other moniker.
oh well, whatever.
Video with audio on web pages that starts playing automatically when those pages load is presumptuous, intrusive, loathsome and horrible. Please knock it off.
You just interrupted LL Cool J with some inane drivel about AJAX that was saved out with such a low bitrate that it may as well just have been radio static and the volume was jacked up so loud it scared me half to death. Do ya feel me?
The computer may look like TV and may one day replace TV but right now, I’m not watching TV. I’m working, writing code, and was looking for information on your product and frankly I have no desire to listen to some generic-sounding voice-over artist your tragically-hip marketing person hired read some cliche, second rate ad copy that is so clogged with worn-out buzzwords and smarmy lukewarm hype that given its poor recording quality is really just vocal vomit.
That insipid little aural stunt just made me hate your company. I just closed your web page and will never visit it again.
seems like everytime i go on a job hunt, i go though the same mixed bag of emotions, self-doubt, and a re-evaluation of what i really want to be doing with my life. i’ve been working strictly as a contractor for the past five or six years and so i no longer have the fear of that.
however, i see from time-to-time good opportunities for full-time w2 gigs that tantalize, but i always have this strong aversion to signing on at any one company.
on the other hand, i do tire of forever being the outsider. to wit, after six months on my current gig, i feel more isolated than when i started. the full-timers can’t help but see me as an outsider and i can’t really fault them for leaving me out of things.
i dunno, i’m such a jumbled mess.
now add into the mix that in six short weeks, my wife and i are going to have our second child, for whom we are nowhere near ready and the fact that the holidays are fast approaching, and you can see why i might be bit scrambled-up in the head.
i’m a wreck.
in a boon to the green community, a cancer researcher has found that salt water when excited by particular radio frequency separates the hydrogen from the oxygen, allowing it burn
high-speed hydrolysis, if you will
very intriguing, if a bit dry
http://www.sciencenews.org
What’s puzzled economists over the years is why it’s been so difficult for [poor] countries to start up new activities in the hope of spurring economic growth and lifting themselves out of poverty.
Researchers have [now] shown that a country’s competitive edge can spread from one kind of product to another along a well-defined network of links, much as disease epidemics tend to spread among people who are socially connected.
For example, fish exporters are often successful at exporting fresh produce as well. That’s because both activities require similar infrastructures—good roads, ports with refrigerated storage facilities, and bureaucracies able to monitor food safety
The newly charted map of products could help countries design good policies by indicating the most promising paths to creating new industries.
cool stuff, and hopeful too — so much of the foreign aid from the west gets wasted on ineffectual programs — this research may help
It just goes to show you the mindlessness that pervades the american marketing machine — follow this link to see all 15 Unfortunately Placed Ads,
this one is my favorite
so apparently best buy geek squad technicians are developing a reputation for swiping porn, music files, etc from off of the customer computers that they are assigned to fix.
As part of the operation to catch a technician stealing files from a customer’s computer, consumer-advocate blogger Ben Popken loaded a PC with porn and screen capture software before taking it along to several Geek Squad stores. He then videoed the entire incident
i don’t know how it could possibly come as any surprise that geeks are going snag your tunes and your pr0n when they have your pc in their hands.
so apparently there is a scheme to place small windmills in the median along the new jersey turnpike to generate electricity from the winds of passing cars. sounds like a swell idea only as anyone who’s ever had to drive the dreaded turnpike can tell you — cars don’t normally drive fast enough to generate a wind.
“I am pretty excited about integrating a subway or light-rail train right where the barrier is,” designer Mark Oberholzer told architecture magazine Metropolis.
“I love the idea of siphoning off electricity generated by private transportation to run public transportation.”
The scheme would also have the benefit of generating more power at peak commuter times, which roughly coincide with peak power requirements.
clearly these guys have never had to drive into new york from points south, because it may well have occured to them the irony that at peak commuter times, the wind generated by autos is most likely its most feeble.
no, really — the cadaver calculator will calculate the monetary value of your mortal coil were you to part ways with it today and had willed it to science.
i am worth about the same as a 10 year old honda, $4675!
the russian govn’t shut down allofmp3.com, a popular site that was selling mp3s for about 20-cent a pop.
the thing about this that stands out most to me is how ironic it is that a company in the former bulwark of global communism is beating an entire american industry at its own game
this little russian firm is creating its own wal-mart effect, wherein the company exploits a unique ability to offer lower prices than any of their competition, and in the process is disrupting an entire industry
not terribly different, either, from how the japanese clobbered detroit, only few americans would not mourn were the riaa to go down for a dirt nap
however what makes this victory by the riaa most hollow of all is the fact that allOfMp3 folks have already started up a new firm Mp3Sparks.com and users report that their accounts, balance and all have been migrated over for them, which is kind of creepy
what the riaa has been completely blinded to by greed is that the success of allOfMp3 proves that if you price it right, the people will buy, and buy a lot
they could, if they wanted to, set up their own music store to compete on price with these knuckleheads and cut out all the middlemen — itunes, the lawyers, amazon –EVERYONE.
but they apparently would prefer to make their money by litigation, pity
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