Category: Zeros & Ones

  • BellSloth meets the new AT&T … and dies …

    Good thing we didn’t plan to record the podcast last night, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to record the podcast thanks to the new AT&T. An attempt to purge some of the old BellSouth servers from their system caused a nine state outage that lasted over four hours. Even their service phone line crashed…

  • Smelly, fuzzy, blurry … what’s not to love?

    So, you may ask yourself in this time of holiday sales, can a $169.00 LCD projector marked down to $119.00 at Target be a bad deal? According to this web review, it’s a horrible deal. Maybe I should just save up for a real projector, or only buy this if I want to cannibalize it…

  • Strange Layovers

    Here, for your amusement, is the strange flight plan of one Brian Richardson … business traveler and cross-country geek. Sunday – 2:30pm flight to Austin, TX (booked two days ago thanks to last minute meeting with major computer company) Monday – 8:00am meeting at major computer company, scheduled to be done by 10:00am. Return to…

  • Munich: Notes from Monday

    A few notes from our first day in Munich, Germany:

  • Best. Marketing. Evar.

    This site is brilliant … http://www.wakeyz.com/ … Wakey’z Drugmall is a fake site full of overly caffeinated products. The goal is to draw you into the Sleep Number Bed website, so you can get better sleep rather than stay awake using stimulants. Some of my favorite products: Night Owls – caffeinated barbecued owl wings Cheetah…

  • I have to do *what* tomorrow?

    Work? Already? Damn, it has been a month, hasn’t it? Sabbatical over, time to earn my keep.