Yostivanich

“Mar­keters rarely think about choos­ing cus­tomers… like a sailor on shore leave, we’re not so picky. Huge mistake.”

Can’t learn about pol­i­tics from the internets.

“One of the Nicholasville, Ken­tucky library employ­ees fired for tak­ing a vol­ume of League of Extra­or­di­nary Gen­tle­men off an 11-year-old’s hold list (see “Library Employ­ees Fired over LoEG”) had filed a for­mal chal­lenge to the book before the action that led to their ter­mi­na­tion, accord­ing to an arti­cle in the Lex­ing­ton Herald-Leader.”

“Rather, I was sur­prised at the num­ber of Democ­rats who have solid pro-choice vot­ing records but who nev­er­the­less voted for Stu­pak Amend­ment. And the vast major­ity of these Democ­rats voted for, not against, pas­sage of the under­ly­ing health care bill.”

“I’m mak­ing this post because I know the design of this fea­ture will be some­what con­tro­ver­sial. Peo­ple under­stand­ably have expec­ta­tions of how the retweet func­tion should work. And I want to show some of the think­ing that’s gone into it. I’ve been a big pro­po­nent of this par­tic­u­lar design inter­nally at Twit­ter, because, while it won’t serve every use case, I think it offers some­thing new and powerful.”

“The Euro­pean Com­mis­sion (EC) has objected to Oracle’s pro­posed takeover of Sun Microsys­tems, cast­ing doubt on the $7.4bn (£4.4bn) deal.”

“As a small busi­ness owner, it’s pos­si­ble to have sev­eral projects going on at any given point, and unfor­tu­nately, there are many occa­sions where the one that makes the most noise and fuss is the one that gets the major­ity of avail­able atten­tion. Time goes by, and the most impor­tant things get pushed aside for the most des­per­ate. Get­ting it all back under con­trol is actu­ally pretty sim­ple. It’s done with a weekly review.” I would have to agree.

“Back in August, we wrote about the Hol­ly­wood movie stu­dios con­spir­ing to keep new release DVDs away from ser­vices like Net­flix and Red­box for as many as 30 days after their release. The idea behind this from Hollywood’s per­spec­tive is sim­ple: If peo­ple can’t rent movies right away, they’ll buy more. Sorry, did I say the idea was “sim­ple”? I meant, “idiotic”.”

Don’t even bother try­ing to get a con­tract it’s pointless.

“Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it is work­ing with air­ports across the coun­try as well as Boingo Wire­less, Advanced Wire­less Group, Air­port Mar­ket­ing Income and oth­ers to pro­vide free Wi-Fi as a hol­i­day gift now through Jan­u­ary 15, 2010. The gift cur­rently includes 47 air­ports, includ­ing Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston, Bal­ti­more, Bur­bank, Hous­ton, Indi­anapo­lis, Seat­tle, Miami, Ft. Laud­erdale, Orlando, St. Louis and Char­lotte. Addi­tion­ally, as a result of this project, Bur­bank and Seat­tle air­ports will begin offer­ing airport-wide free Wi-Fi indef­i­nitely.” Google is so awesome.

“The state leg­is­la­ture had approved a licence plate with a cross in front of a stained glass win­dow and the words “I Believe” writ­ten along the top. Dis­trict Judge Cameron Cur­rie said that the plate vio­lated the First Amend­ment, which enshrines the sep­a­ra­tion of church and state.”

Screen saver or brain saver.

“So say you’re at the air­port. You want to rent, I dunno, some movie that wasn’t good enough to see in the the­ater. You just for­mat a spare SD card filled with vaca­tion pho­tos you’d for­got­ten to back up (it doesn’t appear they give you a card, but I could be mis­taken), pop it in the machine, select a movie, pay $4 or so, and then have the film loaded on your card, a la tick­ing time bomb, with DRM.” Seriously.

Evo­lu­tion­ists are out to destroy the human race.

“Offen­sive? Seri­ously? Those uppity female Sen­a­tors, always want­ing credit for being in Con­gress and stuff! Hey, I won­der how this Brigadier Gen­eral feels when he gets called “dude”?” Agreed.

“Thank you again, Web­mas­ter, for remind­ing me why I should be so proud of the work I do. With­out you I couldn’t pay for house, cars, and fine wine. Keep up the good work so I can keep up my fine life!”

“So, why doesn’t Twit­ter and oth­ers team to sub­mit the sta­tus update to a stan­dards body? This will ensure that we don’t see a repeat of what occurred with incom­pat­i­ble instant mes­sag­ing services.”

“To know it’s gonna make you angry. Sigh.”

“Every day, more than 99 human years are wasted because of uncom­pressed con­tent. Although sup­port for com­pres­sion is a stan­dard fea­ture of all mod­ern browsers, there are still many cases in which users of these browsers do not receive com­pressed con­tent. This wastes band­width and slows down users’ inter­ac­tions with web pages.” Google takes on both web­sites that don’t com­press con­tent and soft­ware that removes the Accept-Compressed HTTP header.

“If you’re not a pro­gram­mer, you may be look­ing at these two images and won­der­ing what the big deal is. That’s fine. But I humbly sub­mit that, well, you’re not one of us. You don’t appre­ci­ate what it’s like to spend every freak­ing minute of every freak­ing day ago­niz­ing over the tini­est details of the pro­grams you write. Not because we want to, you under­stand, but because the world explodes when we don’t.” Always funny, always interesting.

““That’s not what we do,” is the back­bone of strat­egy, it deter­mines who you are and where you’re going. Except in times of change. Except when oppor­tu­ni­ties come along. Except when peo­ple in the orga­ni­za­tion for­get to ask, “why?””