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Another test blog post

July 3rd, 2008 . by Fudouri

Testing Scribefire, feel free to ignore.

Go Tigers

June 30th, 2008 . by Fudouri

I had promised there was no point talking about them until they were above 500. Well, with yesterdays game, they are officially 41-40, or exactly one game above 500. Sure, it took half the teams only one game what it took the Tigers half a season, but its better now than never.

The Amazing Human Mind

June 24th, 2008 . by Fudouri

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080610/0146101362.shtml

I have been reading about this the last few days. The gist is that with Google, people are now finding it hard to sit down with a book and read.

Taking a completely different read on the situation, I am completely ambivalent to whether this is good or bad for humanity. More interesting is to see our human mind at work. As soon as situations change, our very mind makes the best use it can out of it. It has literally changed its way of thinking to utilize new resources. Any normal animal, this would require evolution, at least a number of years to work through a changing circumstances. In humans, we make such a drastic change within a single lifetime. Absolutely amazing.

Iphone == RAZR

June 20th, 2008 . by Fudouri

Now, I’ve never owned one of those motorola phones. I also have never owned one of those fangled iphones.

Still, from the outside looking it, it would look like the Iphone is quickly becoming the next RAZR.

The question is, if it becomes the next RAZR, is this good or bad for Apple? On the one hand, Apple has shown with the Ipod that they can have mainstream appeal while still maintaining their high brand name. On the other hand, RAZR has shown that phones that have become mainstream do not keep their users interested and dilute what use to be a very strong brand.

It will be interesting to see which is the case for the Iphone.

Firefox 3

June 17th, 2008 . by Fudouri

Just downloaded Firefox3 to try it out.

Good news:
Scribefire and FireFTP both still work. I use scribefire more than fireFTP but both as very useful extensions.
Tamper Data also works. Great for debugging.

Bad news:
Firebug doesn’t work. This is a horrendous killer for me. This extension is critical to my job.

In the 10 minutes I have played with it so far, it seems pretty good. I especially love the smaller shortcut bar, means it fits a lot more links than before.

Test

How Company Blogging Works

May 29th, 2008 . by Fudouri

http://checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/5/29/the_incredible_shrinking_laundry_deterg.aspx

Ever since finding it, I have absolutely loved the Walmart blog, and find how amazing a transformation in how I feel about the company came about because of it.

Prior to the blog, I always thought of Walmart as the big scary store. It is out to pay low and make profits purely based on size. Yet, reading the blog, you can find all the good things they do too (like this particular post about detergent). It is great to see a company use their power (buying power) both for good and evil. The good probably doesn’t come out nearly as often as it should.

So how do i put this….

May 26th, 2008 . by Fudouri

So, this is the amazing play of the game from Jason Maxiell.
My description is “its the signature Tayshaun Prince block with a clear Maxiell flair”

Jason Maxiell Chases Down Kevin Garnett For the Huge Block

Interesting article on Zappos

May 20th, 2008 . by Fudouri
http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/taylor/2008/05/wy_zappos_pays_new_employees_t.html

I ordered from them just once, and it was painless and great. Though I didn’t run into any problems. In fact, its due to their brand name that when I recently bought shoes (and for those who have tried to help me with this, know the ordeal) that I didn’t even check out other places. I plan on buying my next pair from them too.


Here’s the interesting thing about websites. People aren’t just looking for the perfect deal, there is a large number of people who will pay a little extra for that little extra. Zappos is just one example.

I remember only a few years ago when newegg was a small website, but they were good. They built up a loyal following among the hardcore. Now they are a huge site. It all has to do with finding your niche and then never letting people down.

Still working on my secret project for MediaWhiz, will update with more on specifically customer service when I can reveal more.

Congratulations are in order

May 19th, 2008 . by Fudouri
I just wanted to congratulate all my Yahoo friends for only being 5th worst workspace.

Despite being the original headliner of the first Valleywag article, they were able to pull
out of the frontrunner position to finish out of the standings behind the likes of Facebook and DoubleClick.

So this is XPS and Alienware

May 19th, 2008 . by Fudouri
As I had previous pointed out, it was wierd for Dell to continue to support two different brand names for essentially the same computer. Instead of going with one or the other, they decided to split the difference. Dell plans on splitting the high end market into gamers and just high end consumers.

The question now is, is there a difference? And if there is, is that large enough of a market to support two brands?


When I think about it, the two types of users are pretty much the same. They both one top of the line parts and both will require really good graphics cards, in fact, I would not be surprised if the difference between the two lines just comes down to style. Expect XPS to have sleek lines and sometimes foregoing looks for size. Expect Alienware to be all out in terms of hardware with more edgy look that appeals to that gamer crowd.

In short, their difference is a slight edge toward style over speed on XPS and a slight edge toward speed over style in Alienware.

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