Random thoughts, organized and categorized for your consumption.
Archive for January, 2004
Entertainment Despair
Jan 3rd
I am a self professed gaming junkie. As such I need the proper tools for the job. Last year, the TSA (our friends at the airports) decided to break in two one of my primary tools: the joystick. It just so happens that this joystick isn’t made any more.
To make matters worse, the product in question is from Microsoft. By now everyone should know that Microsoft has more money than anyone, certainly more than the GDP of several industrial nations combined. So why is it that they took a successful product like their joysticks and discontinued them? My bet: they More >
Opting in to spam?
Jan 3rd
At a friends’ request, I joined a new site called LinkeIn. It’s about contacts, and reaching out to those people’s contacts in order to do business. Looking a bit harder at the news blurbs about the site (and others like them) I wonder if I’ve just signed up (and sent invites to others) to be seriously spammed.
In general, I believe in the idea that “x degrees of seperation” communities will work. I’m just not sure that they can be all business or all personal any more. I have contacts that I work with daily that are both categories, but I More >
Home at Last
Jan 1st
I’ve finally made it back to the homestead. The quick summary of this day’s events is as follows:
- 7:20am – Wake up - 9:08am – Leave Incline Village, NV for home - 10:00am – Stopped at chain control on highway CA-267 - 2:00pm – Leave the CA/NV border back into NV on highway 50 - 9:18pm – Arrive in San Jose
Time for some sleep.