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Archive for January, 2009

Leaving Money on the Table

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On the one hand, HP is cutting 24,600 jobs. On the other, here’s the response I got, from their pre-sales team, to a simple question about the specs for a high-end (read expensive) laptop I’m interested in buying:
I would like to inform you that from the model number and product number I am unable to trace [...]

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Warhol’s “Fashion”

Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

From Andy Warhol’s Fashion TV series, Bianca Jagger interviews Steven Spielberg talking about picking up radio stations on his teeth, TV static ghosts and swallowing the future.

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Nokia E71 vs iPhone

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

After having used an iPhone for almost a year, I’m now using a Nokia E71. In many ways the Nokia is an anti-iPhone. More powerful, but more complicated.  Here’s what I like about the new phone, compared to the iPhone:

Real keyboard – typing is much faster and more accurate than the iPhone touch-screen keyboard.
Background apps. [...]

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