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E-commerce, Political Style Imagine my surprise when I went surfing on msnbc.com today at lunch time and I saw this banner: I have seen political banners before but this was probably the most blunt one I have seen to date. The banner itself was enticing enough to persuade me to click. And I was immediately — Continue reading »

The Perfect Customer Dissatisfaction Model To all those frequent flyers out there, you have my sympathy. These days traveling by air is nothing short of a nightmare. This is specially true if your trip calls for a connecting flight. About the only thing these flights don't do is connecting. On a recent short trip I — Continue reading »

Penguin in Your Notebook One could call it a historic moment. Hewlett-Packard today announced the shipment of one of their notebook lines with a Linux variant known as SuSE. SuSE was acquired by Novell about a year ago. After watching its fortunes disappear into thin air, mainly due to competition from microsoft on the server — Continue reading »

DDoS – Deliberate Denial of Service A week ago one of our salespeople approached me with a simple question. Some of the people in his client company were unable to browse to our company’s Web site. He was rather embarrassed at the prospect that our company’s Web site (and by extension, our company) could be — Continue reading »

Developer Dilemma One of my chief passions in life is programming, and some of my best times at work is spent working on software projects. Unfortunately a good part of my day is spent managing and trouble-shooting various servers and technologies at work, so it’s difficult to find a sufficient block of time to immerse — Continue reading »

MSFT – From Growth to Income Microsoft is a classic example of a company that has gone through the stages of its business life perfectly, and it has done that in a super-accelerated pace. Think about it. Microsoft started its life as a tiny company, a glimmer in its founders’ eyes. As it gathered momentum, — Continue reading »

Martha's Relief Friday morning, after hearing that Martha Stewart had been sentenced to 5 months in prison, the first thing I did was to check the stock of the company she founded, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc (MSO). While I was surprised that the stock had surged 40%, I wasn't stunned that it had gained — Continue reading »

The Three IM Musketeers I have been an MSN Messenger user since I started using IM (Instant Messaging). Being somewhat of a luddite (I have been accused of that several times), it took me a while to warm up to IM and since I was a Hotmail user, MSN Messenger was a no-brainer path. But — Continue reading »