A few shots of Las Vegas from the top of the Rio hotel where I rode their newly opened Voodoo zip line. — Continue reading »
Amazon and Walmart
📆 August 4, 2014
I don't know what the traders were really expecting when Amazon reported losses two weeks ago. It's the same broken record for the past 20 years. Trust us, we are investing in the future. The future is an awesome alibi because it's always in the, well, future. It'll never come. So the stock has been sliding since the earnings (or — Continue reading »
Microsoft Wants 20,000 More But 18,000 Less
📆 July 20, 2014
Can anyone speculate what Microsoft is doing these days? Never mind the lack of focus that is so obvious in their products and strategies, but apparently dementia has hit the core of the company as well. It wasn't even 2 years ago that  Microsoft was throwing fits like a child to raise the H1B visa limits because it — Continue reading »
The Web (Google) Fear
📆 June 27, 2014
Gmail is having intermittent outages today but when i saw the below page my heart sank thinking they had suspended my account. The message is so personal: We're sorry but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. Seems innocent enough until you start thinking, what if it is my account only? Have I been banned, am I — Continue reading »
Stack Overflow on stackoverflow.com
📆 June 23, 2014
Ok, they're down for maintenance but for a second I thought their site had really blown the stack 🙂 — Continue reading »
YouTube Disable-Annotation Broken
📆 May 26, 2014
I've never liked annotations on YouTube videos. They are more annoying than useful, so I had my account configured to never show them by unchecking the box as shown below. But recently YouTube has been ignoring this setting and the only way to shut off annotations is from the Settings icon on every playback, Quite — Continue reading »
Outlook is Private - Really!
📆 April 8, 2014
Logging into my Hotmail/Outlook account this morning I was greeted with this message touting the benefits of Outlook. They saved the best for last, claiming that "Outlook is private". Talk about false advertising. It was barely a week ago when news leaked that Microsoft had snooped on an employee's Hotmail account while investigating a — Continue reading »
Amazon FireTV
📆 April 3, 2014
So we have wireless-ready TVs, wireless-ready DVD players, Roku, Chromecast, game consoles, and who knows how many other devices attached to our TVs. Now here comes Amazon with its amazingly innovative Fire TV that does incredible things such as, wait a second, stream videos to your TV just like any other device. Why again do — Continue reading »
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