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Posts Tagged Business

If you think Huddle is ripping off Campfire

…then you haven’t seen mIRC, an irc client app that has been around for years:

See anything familiar in the screen shot above?
Tabs on the top, list of participants in the right hand pane, and chat in the main window. Change the font to Lucida Grande 12 pt and put in a browser and you […]


iPhone price whining

I find it strange that Russ is complaining about today’s iPhone price drop of $200. Russ is knows how fast the mobile market moves, so he should know better. He says:
Happily screwing the early adopters and rewarding the laggards is something only Apple can do with a smile, no?
No, actually, its pretty much […]


Google Becoming Boring(er)

As Google has grown to take over the world and all of your search, it still retained some semblance of personality and quirkiness. As much as any multi national multi-billion corporation can, anyways.
Maybe 2007 is the year that stops, though. Google recently renamed Froogle to “Google Product Search”, and the Google […]


TurboTax vs TaxCut online

Its tax time again, which means its time to scramble to figure out the some sort of capable tax package for my increasingly complicated finance situation. Working from home doesn’t lend itself to the easiest tax situation, but I’m holding off on hiring a CPA for another year.
This year I tried both TaxCut Premium […]


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This isn’t a black or white issue…


Reason #303 Charter Cable Sucks - Browser Hijack

Lately when I’ve been entering a plain old search query in the address bar of any browser on my mac, I get a useless search page from Charter Cable (my provider) instead of the normal google results:

Apparently Charter does a 302 redirect for any hit that would normally go to the default search page. […]


How *not* to run an online store

Whats wrong with this picture? Taken from the front page of emusic.com - hint: there is no “browse” link.

I had heard about emusic from podcasts I listen to, and was interested to check it out as they sell DRM free music from a lot of independent artists. That sounds like a perfect fit […]


One either blogs or one works

One either meets or one works. — Peter Drucker (apologies)
In my case, I suppose its One either blogs or one works. Not a whole lotta blogging here lately.
In other news, RailConf 2007 is coming. Also, the Madison Ruby group is meeting informally this Thursday and has a real meeting on the 22nd. […]


Console Madness

Every time one of the new consoles come out, we get sad stories like these. On top of the obvious insanity in camping for days to buy a buggy $600 system, we have people getting hurt and robbed for their systems. Is this really a difficult problem to solve?
How about this: two weeks […]


Step 1) Create Something Awesome 2) Profit - or Ze makes $2k in One Day

Yesterday, ze frank of video blog the show asked his fans to “gimme some candy” and donate. Donaters got a message that would be displayed on the show’s page with a logo - fifty bucks getting a big duckie, ten a small one, and five a jewel.
Looking at the duckies today, ze made over […]


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