A Day in Paradise

This new TV that LG is coming out with is pretty awesome.

I’ve got a computer plugged into my LCD LG screen that I use to stream from both Netflix as well as Hulu, Youtube, Vimeo and other streaming video sources.

The other day Mia (6) wanted to watch something on Netflix and I told her to turn the computer on as well as the TV. She turned around and asked “Why do I have to turn on the computer, I already turned on the TV”. This simple question made it clear how irrelevant the computer (as a stand-alone unit) has become to the next generation.

Nuff said - computers are dead

Yesterday i had to wait for 3 minutes for my Espresso Truffle, so the barrista gave me a coupon for a free drink!

Today I come in and they give me 2 drinks free!!!

\o/

I’m wondering how much influence this blog (which never posts anything of value) has. The last story I linked to (below) got over 600 views. The article I posted yesterday on the hedgeco blog, got only a fraction of those hits.

So… here we go again

Link to update on Madoff scandal! Madoff & Credit Suisse - how did a major bank lose $925.9 mln? I’m also working on a list of feeder funds that were effected by this debacle. Maybe I’ll post that today

Read my round up on the Thierry de la Villehuchet / Madoff mess here.

Over at HedgeCo we’ve been blogging for a while, but only today are we making it official with this press release.

The most recent post is a great one by Bret Rosenthal that gives a good round up of the Bernard Madoff scam, and how it should have been smelled MILES away.

So get over there right away and plug the rss into your aggregator!

http://www.jetpackinternational.com/video.html

Is that awesome or what!

This sticker fell off of the bottom of my laptop.

Wireless LAN: 001B9E-ED8081

What people don’t understand is that while the auto industry has been the driving force (no pun intended) of the US economy for the last 100 years, the next 100 years will be all about technology and alternative energy. Two things that the automotive have been slow to embrace at best and actively trying to kill.

The failure of the financial institutions & the current economy wasn’t the cause of the automotive industry’s failure but was simply the catalyst which triggered the inevitable failure of a decrepit automotive industry.

Time to cut the cords and let GM go down in flames. Split the bailout package between transportation companies who specialize in clean energy and a program for retraining GM employees.

Just my 2 cents

Had some problem with FF not “remembering” print settings on XP – I think I figured out the problem here.

http://saalwaechter-notes.blogspot.com/2008/01/firefox-and-default-printer.html

I’m waaay too busy for my own health, but have some awesome new stuff coming out that I can’t wait to show peeps!

Stay tuned!

no time to watch now, but looks funny

Another for my “note to self category” for when we need a sign for our Web Monday group.

Talked to June -  very nice (561) 697 2380. Just does signs and none-electronic work.

This is easy to do in *nix

find . -type d -name ‘.svn’ -exec rm -rf {} \;

Windows it is a bit more difficult, unless you do what this guy did and create a .reg file with the following content

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN]
@="Delete SVN Folders"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN\command]
@="cmd.exe /c \"TITLE Removing SVN Folders in %1 && COLOR 9A && FOR /r \"%1\" %%f IN (.svn) DO RD /s /q \"%%f\" \""

Good stuff

The reason why I couldn’t do a svn export, is that I cancelled a add / commit half way through both, so the repo was basically screwed.

I shouldn’t blame Fonality, it was really a power surge that caused the UPS to fail which caused Fonality to reboot.

When Fonality came back up it decided to resend all the voicemail emails out (on an average of 30 emails for each of our 30 users), this clogged our upstream. Our email server didn’t appreciate getting a flood of emails containing large .wav files so it slowed down.

This happened first thing in the morning, everyone was checking their emails which were slowly filling with .wav files. This clogged our downstream. Thunderbird IMAP also doesn’t like being disturbed while syncing, so frustrated people trying to access other mail were interrupting thunderbird which exacerbated the problem.

This is where you have to holler out “EVERYONE CLOSE YOUR EMAIL CLIENTS! AND DELETE YOUR INCOMING VOICEMAIL FROM YOUR WEBMAIL!!”

Once everyone stopped freaking out and gave the network a few minutes to settle down, things sorted themselves out.

One of the most amusing Wynton Marsalis performances ever!

Steven Colbert also continually impresses us with his musical acumen. The really good part starts around 5:25

A blogger just sent this termination email that they got from Creative Weblogging.

As you may have seen the global economy is going for a bad year and it hits marketing expenses first many advertisers that have been spending tens of thousands of dollars here at Creative Weblogging are just not spending at all anymore.

We also recently switched to no-follow, which greatly improved our traffic numbers but also decreased our ability to monetize traffic.

So were forced to change contract structure again and have removed many paying contracts in the English network. We will have a joint sessions here tomorrow that will evaluate German blogs more intensively.

If you blog for an English blog and you still have your contract it is very likely it will stay. Same is true for German blogs once tomorrows evaluation is done.

We sincerely regret taking these steps but the good times are over and we all need to make our houses ready for the upcoming storm. Things may like VERY different in 36 months so please check back with us from time to time how current hiring goes.

This article on forbes.com suggests that people are tightening their belts by moving from traditional internet advertising (like the above) and moving to google & other search advertising.

The same article goes on to talk about Wikia and how they are also suffering.

While the downturn chokes spending for Google’s major competitors, it may also cut off funding for potential foes in their embryo stages. One potential upstart competitor, Wikia Search, may already be feeling the crunch: Its parent company, Wikia, announced this week that it will lay off 10% of staff. More generally, the credit crisis has made IPOs all but impossible for small start-ups and has chilled venture capitalists’ enthusiasm for young potential Google-killers.

There is a lot of things wrong with the article (I can’t remember the last start-up IPO) and any “search engine” that fails because because they can’t find advertisers in the first year, deserves to fail.