After several months of waiting I finally got my Google Voice account! It is a very similar product to what I am working on and allows me to see more of what our competitors are doing. Very cool stuff! And lots of fun building these kinds of apps. Try it out if you would like there is a widget on the right hand side of my blog that will connect us through Google Voice (It even transcribes everything so I can search it later… Very COOL!)
Google Voice
July 16th, 2009Did you know that…
July 16th, 2009Being as how I ride the bus all the time, I get to sit by a wide variety of people. These people have a wide variety of thoughts and beliefs. I have found it very interesting to sit by certain people that are known as “conspiracy theorists.” One in particular caught me attention a few days ago. He kept talking about how Social Security numbers are the sign of the beast mentioned in the Bible. Really? Last time I checked there were several aspects to the sign of the beast that don’t match Social Security numbers. Such as Revelations 11:13 that talks about not being able to buy or sell unless a person were to use that number, well, sorry last time I checked, I can buy (and sell) stuff with out using my Social Security number, Sorry dude, don’t think it’s that one. It really is interesting to talk to these kinds of people. Do you have any fun stories about talking to someone like this? Let me know.
Jumping over dollars to save pennies
June 8th, 2009I have never understood the mentality that a lot of people seem to take. They take a stance of jumping over dollars to save pennies. I saw this when I worked for Subway, owners would complain about giving out coupons, when time after time having coupons continuously showed that sales went up, therefore the store would make more money. Now I get to deal with this with another former employer. I have had colocation for more than a year now at the same place, in fact I have 3 servers that are at day 408 for uptime.
Since I found a new job that would pay me nearly double, my “employee discount” was taken away (without notifying me, which is a whole other topic of discussion) and now that I am calling them trying to get any kind of discount, you would think a loyal customer of more that a year would get some kind of discount, even if it were 10% (even the competition is saying that they can beat them by at least 10%. So instead of giving me a discount, since I was a good employee (maybe they feel like I left them hanging… Which in someways I did, but I gave them 4 months notice, guess what guys, you have to pay programmers what they are worth) and a faithful bill paying customer, that they would give a dicount right. Nope, got to charge full price so we don’t lose any money!
What happens when you lose the customer entirely? Is that worth saving a few bucks. In my book it’s not. But, I guess to each his own, good luck… Hope you don’t lose more customers, but if you treat other customers the way you treated me…. Then they are going to be suffering pretty bad soon.
New and Improved, but is it really?
June 8th, 2009So I keep hearing about the “New and Improved” this, and the “New and Improved that… It made me stop to think for a while, If it is new, it was recently created, and has no history, and therefore can not be improved. If it is improved, it is old and has a history and is therefore not new. So where in the world did this oxymoron come from?
World record for Donkey Kong LIVE
June 2nd, 2009STEVE WIEBE is attempting to break the world record for Donkey Kong, he is doing it right now live, watch it live http://www.justin.tv/g4tv_wiebecam This guy is crazy good!
100 best movie lines
June 2nd, 2009Here’s a video I found today. It’s the 100 best movie lines, only in a SportsCenter style where they have a montage of all of them. The entire thing is given in 200 seconds, not bad for the number of movie lines it covers. See if you recognize all of them.
Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailer
June 1st, 2009I just found out that they have released the Toy Story 3 Movie trailer, granted it is only a teaser, but still, I am kind of excited. Hopefully they make this one as good as the first two.
A Shiney New Toy
May 27th, 2009Well, I got a new call in church a few weeks back. I got put into the teachers quorum. As a result it has been very difficult to get myself organized properly. After much discussing, Jen and I decided to get a new phone. We figured that our contract with T-Mobile was over and that I needed something that I could use as a phone in addition to all of the planning capabilities of the new smart phones. So it came down to a choice. Did I want to get a new T-Mobile 1G (The Google Android phone) or an iPhone 3G, well after much discussion and hemming and hawing, I decided to go with an iPhone. My shiney new toy has lots of fun apps that can be downloaded and run on it. More about those to come, but for right now here is a picture of what they look like:
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, because all of my boys refuse to answer their cellphones, I got the unlimited texting plan, so that I can text the boys.
