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Our children’s grandchildren will be thanking us decades from now.
Wednesday
Dec 31, 2008
Zune fail
Thankfully my life is full of less Microsoft products than it used to be.
I once thought about picking up a MS Zune mp3 player on woot, thankfully I talked myself out of it: http://gizmodo.com/5121311/reports-30gb-zunes-failing-everywhere-all-at-once
To summarize: If you have a 30GB Zune this morning, it doesn’t work anymore.
Monday
Nov 24, 2008
Free shares of bankruptcy!
NOTE: Sorry for the length, it’s a Sunday evening rant.
Initially my thought this year was to purchase everyone on my Christmas list the same thing this year. Not because it would make my life super-easy but mainly because I feel that no matter what position you are in financially, it’s a good read and something I know we have benefited from going through. Ultimately though, I decided against it. It is a sensitive subject to approach and it would be far too easy to have somebody think I was calling them out.
One of the things that we have been striving for since taking the class is to live differently than how we use to live (much less how 70% or more of America lives). Accruing debt. Sadly, I could have used the lessons long before I entered college and we surely would be much farther ahead at this point in time.
Either way, one of the things both the book and the class talk about is being a slave to the mindset of “we’ll always have a car payment.” While not easy, we are working towards training ourselves to think differently than this approach.
So close.
Today is the closest I have ever come to getting the coveted “Bag O’ Crap” during a Woot-off. Bummer. I was quick enough to get the “I want one” button and get to the login page but since I wasn’t smart enough to have logged in earlier in the day, I lost out due to a server overload. For those that don’t follow too closely, they sell for a dollar but are rarely just “crap” and always sell out in less than a minute.
A misstep for Google.
Google, you know I have mad love for you. But why in the world would you take up more screen real estate on your latest update to iGoogle? Terrible idea. Terrible. I didn’t even use your tab system before, and now I am forced to. Not a good UI practice from a team with a very good UI reputation.
Here’s to waiting for a Greasemonkey script to set it back to its old self.