Jul 312009
Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 30th through July 31st:
- Read This If You Hate Meetings – Good article as well as the one embedded upon which this article is based. This identifies the main source of actual stress in my work life as I have equal parts "maker" and "manager" elements in my schedule. I have a fair amount of reading and writing that are time consuming and require fairly long blocks of time to actually accomplish well and unavoidable meetings. The meetings are unavoidable as I support a relatively large sales team and when they can get a meeting and there is any room on my schedule, I pretty much have to make time for it as well. Makes my job fun in that there is always something new and different to do on any given day, but when there is a fair amount of stuff I need to produce on a time-table, it seems to take forever to get out even the simplest thought-requiring pieces.
- You Have Three Sentences – Because the market wasn't "free". Too many non-market, (i.e. government) forces at work creating a hidden force with real (i.e. truly free) market reactions that created an unsustainable bubble all of which popped under what would be only slight downward pressure. Unfortunately the hidden force was also a hidden bubble and the fall was much larger as the real market components such as all of the bad-mortgage backed derivative paper also went south, creating the rapid asset evaporation and consequent "crash".
Remember the folks that brought this crash now want to "fix" healthcare. Seems reasonable if you think they "fixed" housing for the uncreditworthy.
- A Google Wave reality check (Tom Krazit/CNET News) – I really my multiple submissions to be a tester will be accepted as this sounds very intriguing.
- FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch) – If you know me, you know I'm not happy to see the government getting involved in this kind of thing. I prefer to see customers who care punish the stupidity of their would-be service providers. The market will fix this in short order. However, it is interesting to see how quickly this has gotten attention. Guess I was far from the only one seriously troubled by this idiotic decision taken by AT&T / Apple.
Taking bets as to whether this decision gets reversed by AT&T / Apple by Weds or Fri of next week? Monday? We'll see.
- Wii Classic Controller Pro Impressions – Two sticks?! The heck, you say! ('bout freakin' time)
- QOTD: Hi, I’m a Rounding Error. And I’m a PC. – Moronic title on this quote as obviously for anyone with a 4th grade education in math knows that Apple is the rounding error. Is their share 7.8% or 8.7% who cares, they are a rounding error to MS. Thus sayeth the math and so noted the Ballmer.
- I Quit The iPhone – I have loved the iPhone, but now I am quitting the iPhone. (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) – Wow, Arrington really upset by the Google Voice debacle by Apple. He's leaving the iPhone entirely and I can completely understand. Having used Google Voice only a bit in testing on my BB with the GV app, its truly awesome. I can't wait till the phone # switch funtionality is turned on as I'll be doing that day 1.
- Seriously, What is Going on with the App Store? Blocks, Delays, and Awful Apps Slipping Through – No Google Voice on the iPhone? Till that gets rectified, no iPhone in my future.
- Send mail from another address without "on behalf of" (Gmail Blog) – Note to self to look up my various domain hosting service's SMTP info and make this change.
- The New MySpace Mail Quietly Emerges As A Big-Time Email Competitor (MG Siegler/TechCrunch) – Under the category of things that make you go "Hmmmm….". One look at the screenshots with all the ads is certainly one reason I wouldn't consider leaving GMail for MySpace email, besides the fact that I really like GMail.
