At least at the University of Georgia, where this anit-Wal-mart column was published in the student newspaper: Many corporations are firing American workers to cut production costs. They then charge American consumers more money than what it took to produce their products. You got that? Companies are charging people more money for a product than it cost to produce the product!!! How disgraceful!!! No mention if the article whether or Read More ...
Gmail’s threaded, conversation based approach to email is one of the things that sold me on it early on. But I know there are people who don’t like it and prefer the traditional “one message, one line in my inbox” way of viewing their email. Fair enough–diff’rent strokes and all. But I always thought it was a little unfortunate that people didn’t take advantage of all the other great gmail Read More ...
And that’s the early IPO date. I may be way out of touch and way off base here (that’s happened before), but does this seem like a smart idea? I mean, FB is white hot right now. Things that are white hot tend to burn out, and that happens especially fast with anything happening online. I think if I had a stake in FB, I’d want the IPO to happen Read More ...
I once heard from a wise runner that it’s better to go into a race 10% undertrained than 1% overtrained. If that’s true (and I live like it is), I’ll be hitting my October 3 race in the sweet spot. Moving has cut into my training opportunities for the last couple of weeks, and at this point I’m hoping I can just maintain what I had long enough to make Read More ...
I’ve spent many a sleepless night staring at the screen of my TRaSh-80 writing BASIC wondering exactly how/why Radio Shack still exists. There can’t be that many electrical engineering students out there who are rushing to the mall at 8:30 pm to try to find parts to build an ill-designed power amplifier before their 9:40 am class. Who shops there the rest of the day? “I’d like to capitalize on Read More ...
