Thursday Thoughts
Wow, it's Thursday afternoon already. Who would've thunk it? Anyway, it's still kind of early in the afternoon so there's still a torturous half-day to go before I can get off work and stop... well, typing these stew-pid IT reports. (In case anybody's curious, what I've been working on primarily the past week is putting together step-by-step manuals about how to work new functions in our system as well as putting together step-by-step instructions for IT about what new new fuctions to add to our system. Sux0rz.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/slow_rokr_sales/
Anyway, market analyst Michael Walkley has reported on why the Motorola ROKR phone hasn't been selling as well as predicted. Along with high price and low memory, Walkley blames the "appearance" of the phone. I gotta admit, it's pretty fugly. (Ok, it's not as bad looking as 90% of the Nextel phones but at least those phones are extremely usable and not being sold as being stylish.) It just goes to show that aesthetic value's quite important in gadgets and gizmos.
Compare the ROKR (pronounced Rocker. Get it?) iTunes phone with this MP3 player:
http://www.douglasjx.com/main.php?goto=hardware_pres
Diamond encrusted, the Douglas J costs 44,000 dollars and plays music, movies, and pics. Crazy crazy.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/10/06/potter.gay.reut/index.html
Hehe. Reverand Graham Taylor, author of novel Shadowmancer, was giving a talk to a school and told the kids there that Harry Potter was gay and the villains in Harry Potter were wimps. He was asked to leave abruptly. Hehe. Say what you will, sure, but insult Harry Potter at your own peril. =)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/06/spying.allegations/index.html
Allegations of espionage in the government. One of those accused are the highest ranking officials to be accused of foreign espionage, Leandro Aragoncillo, who worked in the Vice President's office in 1999 to 2001, working for both Gore and Chaney. Crazy. I wonder what's so important about the Filipino files that the FBI have that's worth risking life and death for. Makes ya wonder what's going on half a world away from Iraq.
That's it for now. I'll be back later with more, I hope.
(Oh, and City of Villains will not cost City of Heroes another subscription fee to play. So be good and bad. =P )
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/slow_rokr_sales/
Anyway, market analyst Michael Walkley has reported on why the Motorola ROKR phone hasn't been selling as well as predicted. Along with high price and low memory, Walkley blames the "appearance" of the phone. I gotta admit, it's pretty fugly. (Ok, it's not as bad looking as 90% of the Nextel phones but at least those phones are extremely usable and not being sold as being stylish.) It just goes to show that aesthetic value's quite important in gadgets and gizmos.
Compare the ROKR (pronounced Rocker. Get it?) iTunes phone with this MP3 player:
http://www.douglasjx.com/main.php?goto=hardware_pres
Diamond encrusted, the Douglas J costs 44,000 dollars and plays music, movies, and pics. Crazy crazy.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/10/06/potter.gay.reut/index.html
Hehe. Reverand Graham Taylor, author of novel Shadowmancer, was giving a talk to a school and told the kids there that Harry Potter was gay and the villains in Harry Potter were wimps. He was asked to leave abruptly. Hehe. Say what you will, sure, but insult Harry Potter at your own peril. =)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/06/spying.allegations/index.html
Allegations of espionage in the government. One of those accused are the highest ranking officials to be accused of foreign espionage, Leandro Aragoncillo, who worked in the Vice President's office in 1999 to 2001, working for both Gore and Chaney. Crazy. I wonder what's so important about the Filipino files that the FBI have that's worth risking life and death for. Makes ya wonder what's going on half a world away from Iraq.
That's it for now. I'll be back later with more, I hope.
(Oh, and City of Villains will not cost City of Heroes another subscription fee to play. So be good and bad. =P )
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