Archive Apr 22, 2005
The Sins of Cingular
Lockergnomie Rusty Weller, upon reading a note about Verizon's CEO dissing his customers: You're such a kind soul. Very enlightening, too. I appreciate all that you do. If Verizon's CEO disrespects his customers, you ought to be an AT&T merger victim in the unmerciful hands of Cingular. No, you ought not, on second thought. After [...]
Paying for a Web Browser
Hey Opera – Firefox is killing your desktop business model. I admire your CEO for aiming to swim from Norway to the USA, but… that's not likely to win over any new users these days. Internet Explorer may have annoyed us in the past, but with free shells like Maxthon, any kind of ad-supported browser [...]
Fixing Computers for a Living
Should Lockergnomie Mike Nelson feel bad? I run my own computer repair business. I am the only one locally that will actually go to people's home and fix their sick little babies. Mind you, I love what I do, but the attitude of some customers has left me thinking later I should have said this, [...]
Geeks!
There's been an awful lot of geek activity over the past week. The moon must be in the house of Babbage? First, the geek known as Lenn is leaving Microsoft for Skype: I recently accepted a new job and have resigned my post as Director, Platform Evangelism at Microsoft after almost 8 years with the [...]
