It’s now official–I watch more TV shows on DVD/DIVX than I do on TV. This holiday weekend brought amazing sales to the world of TV shows on DVD. Here’s the damage:
- Simpsons Season 4
- Family Guy Seasons 1-2
- 24 Season 1
- Seinfeld Seasons 1-3
- Chappelle’s Show Season 1 (Gift!)
Yikes! I might add that I got deals like the 24 season at $11.99 (24 x 1 hour shows on 6 discs!) and Chappelle for $9.99, so it’s a lot more video than money. When a store can drop the price from $40 to $10 you can tell the profit margins they work with, pretty amazing.
Last night around 7:30pm I registered a domain name for my little brother (we’re getting him started early!) and hooked it into my dedicated server around 8:30pm.The site was working just four hours after the zone files were pushed at the host. That’s speedy! This usually takes 24-48 hours and sometimes even longer. The stars must have aligned.
I found these last night and had to share–so amazing. The still photos are better I think because it looks impossible. All are planes approaching to land at the airport on St. Maarten.
Wow! We live pretty near the airport (under the flight path, 8 miles or so away) so I’ve been around airplanes a lot. My dad had an office right across the street and I used to love watching them go over, but they weren’t this low!
I’ve been looking into Amazon Web Services for use on MobileTracker and it looks like Version 4.0 still ignores rebates. This isn’t bad for books or CDs, but nearly every phone on Amazon has a large rebate. Displaying through AWS makes the phones look pricey.
Example – $299
Real Amazon – Free
Any ideas of how to get around this?
Server: Super Celeron 2.4 GHz
Primary HDD: 40GB Hard Drive
Secondary HDD: 80GB Hard Drive
Drive Controller: IDE
RAM: 1024 MB RAM
Number of ips: 5 IP Addresses
Bandwidth: 1200 GB Bandwidth
Uplink Port Speed: 100 Mbps Uplink
Web Analytics: Urchin 100 profiles
Hizzah! This should be fun!
Overture and FeedBurner teamed up to do RSS ads right. MobileTracker has them on the feed (which I changed to full text, fun!) now. They are pretty well on topic, very impressive. Must have been a lot of work for all involved.
In the near future I’m looking to hire someone to help me out on MobileTracker. Personally, I want to work on a lot more in depth pieces (reviews, reports, etc), so I’m looking for someone that can post news. I generally work late, so the ideal person would post in the morning (8AM ET some PRs start hitting, until 11AM or so).
Please email jon AT mobiletracker.net if you are interested. This is a contract position.
I am getting excited over this fiber to the home stuff (who isn’t?!) so I went over to the FiOS website at Verizon… You can plug in your phone number to see if you’re eligible.
Great, I figured it would say–"Almost, here’s a form and if you fill it out we’ll you know when it’s available" or something similar. I mean this is a multi-billion dollar project, that would have cost $10,000 or less.
Well it says I can get Verizon DSL. But I didn’t ask it about DSL, we’ve had that before and it sucks. What about fiber?
So I go to the FAQ, and it states:
Eligibility for Verizon Fios Internet Service is based on your service
address, not your telephone service. Therefore, your eligibility for
Verizon Fios Internet Service is determined based upon where you live
not based on your telephone number.
Then why would the only way to search if you’re eligible be phone number based? Even if they had a database based on phone numbers, what about the VoIPers, or the cell phone only users?
So Verizon, go ahead and speend $20-30K more on your website and get an address search. Please.
What does a Google spokesman do? In nearly every media story they "decline comment". Is there a dedicated person to decline comment to a billion journalists? I want that job! (Oops, I really meant that I will not say anything about wanting any possible job with any possible employer. Ever. Really. Stop asking.)
A few weeks ago, I posted about some email problems, namely that my client was slowing down. Mailsmith used to keep me happy, but it couldn’t deal with volume–deleting a few thousand spam messages took 5 minutes. 10K and it would freeze. Yesterday I got 600+ spam messages and decided that I was either going to find something new or not do email. I need email to work so I found something new.
I tried Microsoft Entourage, but yea it’s Entourage. Ick.
Thunderbird version .9 has a lot of improvements over some of the older versions I have used. It’s lightning quick which is keeping me happy.
I’m also a FireFox (now 1.0!!!) user, so Thunderbird makes me feel right at home.