Windows 7 is pretty stable a week into it…here’s how I got there…

I did my upgrade last week from that abysmal Vista 64 to Windows 7 64. First I’d like to recount how long it took. For that, I will show you my tweets from last Friday night/Saturday morning.  Let me say that I started the upgrade at about 10:30 PM on Friday night:

@alexbarnett was [...]

4A’s analysis of a marketing failure: Microsoft Zune

So I wrote this paper for my marketing management class.  Since this is my first marketing class, you’ll forgive my newbie look at a product.  But I thought it was a fun paper to write, so I’m sharing it.   Normally marketing talks about the 4P’s, our class has been studying the downstream affects of [...]

Apple Time Capsule

So as I tweeted tonight, I received my 1TB Apple Time Capsule today and installed it to replace my aging Linksys router and to capture my dream of having a network disk mounted that all my machines could use (and maybe do some backups).  The real reason is that I need to back up all [...]

Famous and Self-Abuse…

I’m reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft on my Kindle.  I thought it appropriate since I’m trying to be a writer, why not get advice from arguably the most successful fiction writer of the last 30 years.   Now mind you I didn’t say the best, I just said most successful. [...]

Google Wave…WHY?

OK so I got my precious invitation to Google Wave and I went in, and started experimenting.  There’s some cool stuff in there.  It seems like a mashup of Friendfeed, Utterli and IM, with a sort of email feel to it.
My best description of what it feels like to use it is, if you ever [...]

Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize? Give me a break!

First off, I can say this because

I voted for him
I have a right to free expression
I have to laugh

So lets get this straight.  Nominations were due on Jan 30, 10 days after the inauguration…so singlehandedly without most of his transition done, in 10 days Barack Obama changed the world peace situation.   What did he [...]

Amazon to sell kindle globally!

This is freakin’ awesome!  Those who have been following my blog posts and tweets know that my book, Urtaru, has a sort of international edge to it.  I’m hoping that the new markets that are being opened up!
A reuters article outlines it very well.  but on the amazon splash screen they have a long letter [...]