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Bourne Energy’s RiverStar: a fresh approach to hydropower http://tinyurl.com/34j39h #
Analysts see ‘ringback tones’ becoming an $800 billion industry http://tinyurl.com/2nbd6x #
Ringback tones are one more way for fiscally dumb people to spend their money. Completely pointless ways to show off. #
Nokia Trips the Silverlight Fantastic http://tinyurl.com/3cftxs #
New colors, button-shift and accelerated market expansion for 3-wheel Can?Am [...]
Remember this post of mine, where I tried to discern among the various LCD monitors on the market, but couldn’t get anywhere when I dug a little deeper into the Apple Cinema Display specs? I wrote that on 4/30/07, and nothing has changed since then.
I was looking at the specs for the 15″ MacBook Pro [...]
» Go to this postI’ve written in the past about my dislike for MySpace or Facebook, though I haven’t really articulated why I dislike them so intensely. The reasons I gave at those times were and still are valid, but there’s more. I read and commented on a post recently, and it helped me articulate what it is that [...]
» Go to this postA few months ago, I wrote this review of the WD My Book Pro Edition II drive. I hereby rescind anything positive I said about it. I am at the end of my patience with this drive, and Western Digital’s technical support has failed me.My three BIG problems with the drive are as follows:
It crashes [...]
» Go to this postI’ve written about the USPS before, and how slow and unreliable it can be. I wanted to give you an idea of how horrible their service can be with hard, indisputable evidence (see screen shots enclosed below).
A package was mailed to us from a vendor on 11/14/2007. It came from Capitol Heights, Maryland, and shipped [...]
It was more than two years ago when we first flew on Spirit. We were supposed to leave on an early morning flight, but we arrived at the gate 29 minutes prior to departure. We weren’t allowed to board. At that time, Spirit had a 30-minute policy on their flights, and “anyone not at the [...]
» Go to this postI’m a very happy user of FeedBurner, the wonderful feed management service from Google. I’ve been using it since early 2006, and I log on multiple times every day to keep track of my feeds. I’d like to talk about some features and options that I’d love to see on the site.
Ability to splice [...]
Many of us have heard this before, but it bears repeating. Customer or user satisfaction depends, in large part, upon the expectations you set, as a service or product provider. Promise something you can’t or don’t deliver, and satisfaction goes right down the drain, no matter what you did right.
A great friend of mine put [...]
I was listening to the radio one morning, and realized the sound effects they were using to advertise a website were the clicks of a keyboard likely made in the 80’s — you know, long key travel, spring-loaded action, hard clicks. But it worked.
More importantly, it is the only sound that can approximate a keyboard [...]
I liked the Volkswagen “Unpimp your ride” commercials instantly when they came out. I’ve always liked clean lines and elegant cars. I think “pimped” cars are in truly bad taste. The mods are almost always done for the wrong reasons, and usually only to show off in garish fashion. The poor cars end up looking [...]
» Go to this postA while back, I purchased the Ultra All-in-One USB card reader from TigerDirect. Although they advertise heavily, and that’s really annoying to me, I like them and order from them every few months. After using the Ultra card reader, it was obvious to me that its build quality was horrible. I had trouble inserting all [...]
» Go to this postTried Red Bull today for the first time. Tasted like imitation Mountain Dew mixed with liquid soap. I might have forgiven that if it actually had any effect on me, but the only thing that happened is that I had this overwhelming need to use the bathroom… Why in the world people drink this nasty [...]
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