No no he doesn’t rape kids, Jack White just looks like Michael Jackson. Even a little whiter if you can believe that. This is the second Twins Series thus far. And if you didn’t hear, Jack White got arrested for this.
I get an email everytime someone posts a comment on MobileTracker Phones. Lately I’ve been getting at least 1 per day from someone requesting to buy a phone. However, they are almost all from Asia. What’s the deal? Are there no phone dealers in Asia? Or is it just the irony that while US geeks get phones from Asia, Asian geeks get phones from the US. For a good example of these comments, check out my page on the Matrix Phone.
The other day when I stood up for Noel, I thought I was just helping out someone I identified with. I get ripped off all the time–it sucks. I always try and stand up for honest publishing. Whether it’s MacNN/MacCentral lying about post dates or Nick Denton using CSS outside of its original terms without paying, I’m there. Why? It’s ethical. We’re all better off if everyone’s honest.
After I made my post on the CSS theft/misunderstanding, the link to MobileTracker from Gizmodo was removed. Cute. MobileTracker beats Gizmodo to stories daily, and the link back is just a small token of thanks. It’s pretty dick to remove the link because I echoed a popular story on my personal weblog. I’m a big boy Nick–If you want to bash me on your weblog, I’ll keep the link to Gizmodo up because it’s just the right thing to do.
Nick Denton of Gawker, Gizmodo and Fleshbot (not safe for work/wife) has been caught with his pants down. The .com millionaire’s company stole the code for its fleet of high traffic sites from a college student. Pathetic.
I made it known that iPodWeek.com stole its design from MacMinute last month. That led to the deletion of iPodWeek. Obviously Denton isn’t going to stop publishing, but he does owe Noel some cash.
Even though Denton says he couldn’t afford someone to code his sites in XHTML 1.0 Strict (according to Noel), I’d guess his company has over $15,000 a month in advertising revenue a month (if not, he’s doing something wrong). It’s well known that Denton pays his authors slave wages (around $1000 – $2000 a month) so he obviously has enough left over to pay for the cost of doing business on the web.
Do the right thing Denton.
Anyone out there used Drupal before? Thinking of using it for an upcoming site… Looks really slick. I really like the taxonomy feature.
Update: I think I’m going to use it for the project, which while I’m updating, is Tampa411.com.
As a kid I never had a Nintendo. Probably a good thing, but everytime I played (at a friend’s for instance), I sucked. But I liked it. No one else did though, so I was the score keeper. But since it automatically keeps score I never did anything. So yesterday I downloaded an emulator and the Super Mario Brothers ROM and went at it. Today I bring you my prize:
(After 32 levels you think they could have spent a few bucks on the ending…)
Despite poor reviews, the new movie Stuck On You [trailer] is a winner. I’m a fan of Matt Damon, and it was nice to see him in a comedy. It’s an obviously silly movie (the “twins” look about 10 years apart), but was even enjoyed by “too-serious-for-a-kid” me. Next up? Return Of the King. Yum.
Anyone have any quick calculus tips? I take my final in about 9 hours :P.
After recounting to a friend my brief talk with the Pepsi corporation today, I got the impression that some people don’t complain. I’m a sucker for great service, but if I get screwed, you better believe corporate will hear about it. How about you?
A benefit of writing/calling companies like Pepsi or M&M Mars is that they would much rather comping you product than have you recount the offending matter to everyone you know. Pepsi is sending out some coupons, and I’ll continue to purchase their product after the coupons are gone.
Update: The coupons came on the 12th, which was a nice touch. Included was a personal letter, which summed up what was said on the phone. Overall, I’m amazed by the customer service of Pepsi.
On the other hand, Subway never replied/followed up on a complaint. I haven’t been to a Subway since, and don’t see myself going in the near future (I went a few times a week). That’s lost revenue directly attributed to poor service. I didn’t even need/want Subway to send out coupons–I just wanted to know they would follow up on my complaint.
Anytime someone writes me about a problem (maybe with MacMerc or with MobileTracker), I follow up quickly and professionally. Even if it’s a poorly composed letter, I write back with the upmost respect. Most of these people don’t even give me money, so why take so much time? Because I know how it feels to get treated nicely and fairly by an organization that doesn’t have to. I suggest you do the same in your business (although I know a lot of you already do).
As if you couldn’t tell, I’m a 6-degrees fan boy. For all the programmer types out there, how does the database side of the whole concept work. For example, on Friendster I see:
You <-> Jolene <-> Michael <-> Ricky <-> Kelly
I’d assume that all the users are stored in a table, with a column containing friends. Let me know if I’m off base here. To make things simple, lets say the table looks like this:
ID | USERNAME | FRIENDS
In MySQL, how would you get to Kelly? It might be fun to do a little open source social networking. Friendster is going to go pay soon, and it’s already slow. Hipstir is fun, but still not open source.
