AppleTV a dud?…but please not Zune Like!

Fortune Magazines Brent Schlender has declared the AppleTV to be a dud.Why Apple TV is a dud - June 11, 2007:Take Apple TV, the $300 set-top box that Jobs unveiled last October and that finally started shipping in at the end of February, several weeks late…. Apple, as of today, is offering a BTO (Build to Order) option of a 160Gb hard drive for $100 extra and have announced that some new software features will be rolled out mid-June including support for YouTube videos…. First thing in the morning, with a hot cup of fresh coffee, I sit down in my favorite chair in the living room and switch the HDTV and Apple TV on to quickly check for any new Video Cast that I subscribe to on iTunes.

What happened to suspension of disbelief

The other night my roommate was telling me about a conversation him and some of our friends were having about the show Stargate SG-1, and not understanding what there is to like about it. Just to let you know they’re all in the film program down here at Full Sail College, so they see it [...]

This not so old house…or how we spend our Memorial Day weekend.

When we purchased our current home a little over a year ago we knew there were many changes, updates and refreshes that we wanted to do. The people who lived here before us were smokers and had inside dogs. Besides, their taste in colors were nothing like ours.
If you watch the real-estate shows on [...]

Malaise…then change things up!

Michael Arrington of Techcrunch recently posted an article of how the money is pouring into Silicon Valley, the situation is insane, no longer fun and the valley could use a downturn…. Today, Loren Feldman of 1938 Media chimes in to say that Arringtons right it kinda sucks and that malaise is the word lately.It would seem we have the beginnings of an epidemic here…. If they don’t like what they’re doing, how they’re doing it and where they’re doing it, then they should change it up.I would suggest that part of the problem could be the inbred circle they travel and link in. Maybe they should bring in some new blood, connect with new ideas and experience fresh communications.

A good impression vs. the right impression

Richard Querin talks about his recent experiences with people doing job interviews and ask the question,,,”…aren’t you trying to make a good impression?”… A few months ago I would of said yes you should try and make a “good” impression, but after a recent experience I’d say the real goal is to make the “right impressions.”A couple of months ago I went for a second interview for a fairly high level IT position…. The President seemed to take great pride in the fact that he was a regular joe who ran things very informally, which by the way was why they needed the senior IT position because they had no structure or policies and it was effecting their systems.

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