YahooTV beta has my one and only screen credit! Of course, I’m listed as animator instead of R&D, but it’s nice that somewhere somehow my name is in a database as having worked on that show.
An interesting point about the high-level departures from Microsoft
Both Mini-MSFT and Joe Wilcox pointed this out. Microsoft isn’t replacing their high-level executives with internals. Bill Gates leaves, Ray Ozzie is hired to replace him. Jeff Raikes leaves, Stephen Elop replaces him. I’m not sure about some of the other executive departures yet, their replacements haven’t been announced as far as I can tell.
Why would Microsoft do this? Are they looking for folks without a lot of MS baggage who can shake things up? Are they looking for specific skills and experience they can use to compete? Or do they just feel like there isn’t anyone internal up to the task?
No matter what the reasons, this has got to be a major morale killer inside the company. If I was a director or VP or wanna-be executive, the message would be that my best chance of advancement was to leave because it seems like experience inside of MS isn’t valued inside of MS.
Network Solutions is evil
I’ve been a network solutions customer for many many years now. Partially, because when I first registered my domains, they were the only registrar. Later, I would occasionally register a new domain with them if it was important. I never trusted GoDaddy or some of the other discount registrars, NetSol seemed to be more professional and trust-worthy.
No longer… they just jumped to the front of the evil queue.
Network Solutions Using Questionable Tactic to Sell More Domain Names
As of Tuesday, if a user does a search on the site for a domain name, Network Solution immediately registers the domain in their own name. If the user then goes to a discount registrar to register the domain, it shows as unavailable. The user must then either not buy the domain, or go back to Network Solutions and pay their $35/year fee.
fun with my new camera
What does the new Mac Pro announcement say about the MacWorld Keynote
For those of us who have been waiting for a MacPro upgrade, today is a great day. New Mac Pros with 8 cores of Penryn power, new high-end video cards, all quite exciting.
You would think that this is something that Steve Jobs might want to announce from the stage in his keynote next week. So why announce it today?
Maybe they were holding back this announcement in case another one fell through… Maybe compared to the other announcements they were worried that this one might have gotten lost in the shuffle? Maybe it is to suck some of the attention away from all the announcements at CES?
This certainly ups the anty for next week.
[update: Here is Gizmodo’s take, they agree with me]
tired of automated phone support?
gethuman 500 database from Paul English
This is a great site, explaining how to talk to a person when calling various companies
Intonarumori live video posted to youtube
here is a tip
The last 3 physical copies of the first pressing of Bethany Curve’s “You Brought Us Here” are now for sale on cdbaby. We haven’t decided if we will do a second pressing, or just go digital only. So this CD will be a collector’s item.
Go Get it!
My favorite posts of 2007
Everybody else is doin’ it, so why not me?
January 2007
- Did a mock technical interview event tonight at UW (more tips for college CS students looking for a job)
- Interland (web.com) sucks – part the final
February 2007
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December 2007
Alex Iskold’s tips for startups
36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More – ReadWriteWeb
This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please remember that they are based on subjective experiences and not all of them will be applicable to your company.
These tips are great for web startups. They are pretty useful for non-web startups as well. I’ve been through the startup mill myself a couple times and I still got some good pointers.