Archive for November, 2009

No seriously, I’m asking what department I’m supposed to go to.
Here’s the deal. I purchased two Windows Vista Home Premium product keys way back when Vista was shipping. They were $50/each, under their Family Upgrade Discount deal. I purchased the keys from a special Windows e-store that is since defunct.
Fast forward to 2009. I only [...]

I’ve been in Silicon Valley for the past six months, and, well, it’s been a bumpy ride. From apathy to a lot of companies ready and willing to zap our cash at MechaWorks… yeah, the economy is still pretty bad out here.
And, with that, we’ve started looking at other options. One of those, is Las [...]

This is a sad trend I’ve started to see. Big name companies endorsing comment spam.
The comments are all too obvious. Someone posts seeming to have low-to-moderate experience with a topic. Then, in the middle, they link to a word like “antivirus” with a link to some company that rhymes with “Sophos”.
It’s highly unlikely from the [...]

I just saw what may be the biggest waste of advertising money, ever. It was a 90 second TV ad for Uncharted 2.
The problem? Nearly half the commercial involved people talking… in a silent ad.
For those of you not familiar, I coined the term Silent Ads for variants of ads that cut out all speech, [...]

Yes, I have been tweeting quite a bit, and some of the content of that has slipped through the blog. I’ll try to keep that more in-balance going forward.
But, to avoid any more slipping up, I’ve added a Twitter widget to the right side of the site, right below the link to my contact form.
And, [...]

Or… You’re (not) ready already with Comcast…
The reason I wrote this article, in full detail: I hope Comcast reads this. I hope it’s passed around in their halls quietly. I hope they look at this and it gets slipped under each and every VP’s office door. I hope they all see that these are the [...]