Archive for May, 2008

Spockets meets Revenge of the Nerds

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I thought this was a joke a first, but this guy is for reals! Despite his awkwardness, I have to admit he has a sweet computer. Four Nvidia graphics cards! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnIvodB2RzU]

Search is a kingmaker or destroyer

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I saw the media blitz about Borders launching their new site the other day. Interested I went to check out the new interface. Being a search nerd and a former employee of Audible.com (digital audiobooks), I was curious to see how they would handle navigation, search, etc. My first impression was ...

Enterprise vs. Consumer

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I recently had to upgrade to Office 2007 and it got me thinking about how far consumer software and hardware has come in comparison to enterprise (company sanctioned) . I remember a time when I anticipated coming into the office because 1) I had a faster connection 2) a faster ...

There can only be one and he lives in Poughkeepsie

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

This dude is seriously metal!!! SERIOUS guitarist looking for like-minded bandmates to make it big. (Poughkeepsie) Reply to: comm-677453250@craigslist.org Date: 2008-05-12, 11:13AM EDT Look here, Hudson Valley. I'm tired of answering ads on these pages only to find poseurs, geeks and acoustic folk acts who want me to change my unique playing style to ...

If your application form is any indication, just forget about it

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I recently saw a web product manager position at a company close to me that looked interesting. So I decided "What the hell? I'll throw my resume into the hat" and proceeded to their careers page. I found the job fairly easily (i had the req #) then clicked to ...

Software I constantly use

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Notepad - Word editor. Call me crazy, but I usually write out everything in notepad. I can't stand waiting for Word to open just to jot down a few ideas or list of items. It opens in under a second and there no paperclip trying to second guess my every ...