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Holiday Sales… Already?

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Each year I hear people say, “Christmas is starting earlier and earlier.” I don’t really dig christmas too much and loathe the commercialism of the winter holidays (okay, most every holiday). I’ve already started to see Thanksgiving stuff showing up in stores and ads for Thanksgiving sales.
The day after Thanksgiving is colloquially called [...]

The Show Must Go On Even for Steve Jobs

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Found a funny video via the local Apple store clipping the “when things go wrong” aspects of many of Steve Jobs’ presentations over the past few years.
Having been on stage a number of times, I can say I’ve reacted the gamut of ways. Total freeze. Anger. Roll with it. The latter [...]

iTunes Not So iNtune With Recommendations

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

I was thinking about purchasing some Frank Sinatra today, so I fired up iTunes and found a “greatest hits” with enough of the good songs to warrant buying it. When I looked in my shopping cart, I say that Apple had some recommendations based on what was in my cart.
Apple, if you [...]

An AAPL a Day

Monday, October 24th, 2005

Back in April of 2004, when Apple stock was hovering between 12$ and 14$ a share (roughly), I made a suggestion to a friend of mine who does stock trading in his limited spare time.
“Dude, buy 100 shares of Apple.” Very professional, I know. And that high level of professionalism is probably why [...]

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