Phew that was a lot of work. MobileTracker has been completely redesigned and moved to a new host (dedicated server!). The design work was done by Garrett Murray. I did the server transition over the low traffic period that is Christmas. It will continue to be low until the new year, so I may make a few changes.
Thoughts?
Anyone else juggle books like no one’s business? I’m currently reading:
It takes me longer to get through books this way (50 pages of Drudge one day, 50 of Atlas another, 50 of Tipping Points, etc), but it breaks things up. Sort of like lo-fi channel surfing.
The good point is that I really love what I’m reading and since it’s a few thousand pages of content–there is no shortage.
Besides the thousands of viri I got today (thanks Christmas), I am still getting tons inane questions sent my way. I’m sick of email–here are a few choice ones from today’s inbox:
I read your article in FORTUNE and was wondering what you had to do to get setup with Google and how wage you earn from Google is determined?—
I would like to advitise perfume and jewellery, please advise how I can get a
website to do this. Thanks—
I’m very impressed and I was just wondering if you had the time or willingness to share your trade secrets. I have minimal
internet skills (I stopped reading here).
I started reading Atlas Shrugged this week. I had never heard of it, but evidently it’s a classic? Anyone have thoughts about it? It’s about the size of the dictionary, so it better be good :P.
Tomorrow morning I’m parting ways with four wisdom teeth. I wish we could have had more fun together. But I’ll make a new friend.
I picked up a copy of Smartest Guys in the Room (the Enron story) the other day at Borders and I have been entranced. I should have gotten it a year ago! It has opened my eyes to corporate politics and bad management. Enron did a lot of stuff right in its day, but also a looot of stuff wrong.
I suggest that anyone wanting to go into business, or anyone already there, should pick this up. It’s just great.
Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so
Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President’s Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to understand this amazing business saga.
This AP piece sums it up:
Young
people are now the savviest of the tech-savvy, as likely to demand a
speedy broadband connection as to download music onto an iPod, or
upload digital photos to their Web logs. The Internet has shaped the way they work, relax and even date.
I am part of this generation. Not having always on internet access is abnormal to me. I often answer email faster than voicemail. I talk to several business partners exclusively online (concerning my online career), sometimes having never met them. I met my girlfriend online and yea I post videos and pictures from cell phones without thinking about it.
I think another point about this tech-centric generation is there are no physical boundries. From not using telco phones with long distance limits (cell phone and Vonage, long distance extra fee free all the time) to international commerce with tools like PayPal, we’re fully globalized with no extra work. I can just as easily do business with someone half way across the world as someone across the street.
It’s a fun time to be online.
Jason is in a funk because of lawyers. I have gotten several cease and desist letters in the past, but Sony must be doing more than the usual fear policy. Note to Sony Legal: Jason’s posts on Jeopardy have increased the buzz factor about your out dated quiz show. Suing a little guy that gives you free commercials (to a huge audience no less) is stupid.
It was my pleasure today to see this article. I made the cover story of the new Fortune magazine. Fortune! I’ll have to check that off my not-in-a-million-years list.
I have moved News Is Crappy (NIC) over to my dedicated server, installed WordPress and started to post once again. It has been dead for a while but I really like making jokes on the news… I just have not been writing them down.
I am something of a compulsive news reader so there should be lots of new stuff over there every day.
