Its 1996 and all is good in the world
Posted in Rants on Apr 22nd, 2009
If you are in the entertainment business that is. This is a article worth reading.
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Roughly twenty eight thousand one hundred videos have been silenced. Silence can show a lack of response that reveals something significant, such as disapproval or a lack of enthusiasm. This silence however is the response. YouTube has had its copyright issues, that is nothing new. The latest approach to appeasing copyright holders is to turn off [...]
Memory Card Failure and Data Card Recovery
Posted in Rants on Nov 11th, 2008
Filed under stupidity: I know better I know better I know better Last night I popped in a trusty old SD memory card to transfer an important Excel file and when I opened the drive everything was gone. I went through the progression in my head on when the last time I saw the needed [...]
The Dow jump today
Posted in Rants on Oct 28th, 2008
This is a bit off topic but the Dow Jones Industrial average jumped nearly 900 points today mostly in the last 2 hours of trading. While this is good for everyone that is currently worried about their 401K’s I would caution that things may not be as they appear. Take a look at this pic [...]
SmartFTP why did you cheat on me?
Posted in Complaints, Rants, Tech Stuff, Web Stuff on Oct 16th, 2008
No longer free after 10 years: New License Model Note to free users Unfortunately, after offering a free product and a free service to millions of users for more than 10 years we are no longer able to do so. We would like to thank you for using SmartFTP and we hope to welcome you [...]
What Happens to Pandora’s Data if Shut Down?
Posted in Rants, Tech Stuff, Web Stuff on Aug 21st, 2008
I have been a listener of Pandora for the past 3 years and it has grown to be my favorite site on the internet. The RIAA has been pushing SoundExchange to increase royalty rates for web based radio and were successful in increasing this rate substantially thereby threatening to end all web based radio streaming [...]
Lets start off by saying this post was inspired by an effort to support my favorite music site Pandora. They have come under pressure lately with the RIAA’s push for increased royalties on streaming radio. You can read more about that here. The bottom line is that Pandora and other internet radio stations will no [...]
Apparently Yahoo is conceeding the fact that Hotjobs is NOT the only place to look for jobs. In an ironic twist they are placing ads on Craigslist for job openings within Hotjobs. This wouldn’t typically be news but I thought that it was funny that the self touting Leader in job search was using a [...]
You can hack your wimpy shower but then worry about going to jail! Heres a guide to do both. read more about it here
Sprint KRZR Update
Posted in Complaints, Rants, Shopping on Nov 7th, 2006
So I decided to go with the Motorola KRZR over the a900m and the RAZR. It wasnt really that easy though. So I decide im just going to go ahead and get the phone today and I call up the Sprint store to see if they have it in stock and a nice lady said [...]