Weird Al’s song, Mr. Popeil, from 1984 spoofs the infomercial culture: “Now how much would you pay Mr. Popeil?”
when I saw this promotional article for FlashDisks “for sharing” it made me think of it.
I wonder just how good of a marketing move this is, given that some people really are still holding on tight to their floppies…
I know I haven’t used one since 1997 (except at work where the cd-burners that come with the Omni-no-brand P.O.S. computers are intentionally locked).
Hey, buy a new car at Burnsville Volkswagen and get a free 30GB iPod. Sweeet.
And yes, it can work. Grant and I successfully installed Ubuntu’s Breezy Badger on a vintage 500MHz iBook. This time we have a filesystem complete with the Nautilus file browser. Online updates downloaded and istalled successfully, too. We were trying to set it up with the latest Firefox browser and Thunderbird email app to use it as a lightweight web station. Does anybody know how to actually install Firefox 1.5 in Ubuntu? Being the ignorant Mac users we are, we were hoping for an installer to do the trick, but we were unable to get that going… Any thoughts?
Anybody need parts from an old PC (vintage 2000/2001)? The powersupply is dead so we are going to get rid of it. The HD is already spoken for, but there is still other stuff in there that should work. Just let me know what you may want and I’ll go looking for it.
This is from my friends over at The Foundation, a local consulting group and an all around great bunch of folks:
The Foundation may be looking for someone who can install, configure and troubleshoot Cisco VPN routers. Do you know anyone who does this kind of thing and would be available occasionally? We currently work with one group exclusively and they are not as reliable as we would like, so we are looking for more options. It usually amounts to 3-8 hours per month.
If interested, please contact me via e-mail annd I will do the hookup.
In more post-holiday shopping news, Google has aquired Sketch-Up…
I can’t even begin to figure out how this fits into thier model. I am starting to worry about them. Seems like the companies that do well are the one that focus on just a few things and work to be the best at that. I am no business expert. Maybe I am missing something here.
I guess Dell just could not make thier high end gaming PC fast or ugly enough. Here is the latest news:
Unconfirmed: Dell buys Alienware
Digg.com dugg this site as “Flickr on Steroids”. It’s pretty sweet. You can check out the story here.
You can checkout my zooomr page by clicking here. What do you guys think? There are some cool features on that page.
The title says it all: http://knockoffproject.com/
OK, you all know I am on this quest to find the best online calendaring program so my wife and I can orginize our lives with our two small children, work, pets, family, etc. I think I have found it with 30boxes. However, I just learned of a different one I have never heard of before called airset.com. This not only does calendar sharing but does contact sharing in the same app. It also allows you to do multiple calendars for groups incorporating bloggin and such. Very interesting. I would love to hear your thoughts on this web app. Michael, I know you hate them all so I won’t expect one from you. :) Patrick, I expect to hear feedback from you especially please. For you geeks having new babies you might want to think of an online calendar to organize your new more busy lives with your better halves. And of course coordinating all the Dr. appts, feedings, etc for the baby (and the mental health check-ups for yourselves). OK, check airset out below, if nothing else watch the demo.
