Wired posts 2005 foot-In-mouth-Awards

Posted on December 27, 2005 by datapoohbah

“Screw the nano.”
– Motorola CEO Ed Zander

“I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.”
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in statements attributed to him in court documents by former Microsoft engineer and recent Google hire Mark Lucovsky

My personal favorite:
“Most people don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?”
– Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG’s global digital business division

and of course:

“I know what I don’t know, and to this day I don’t know technology and I don’t know accounting and finance.”
– Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO of WorldCom

It seems to me the missed quite a few from earlier in the year, most of the quotes they have seem to have come from the later half

48 Hours with the Video iPod.

Posted on December 27, 2005 by datapoohbah

Way back when the video iPod’s were released I looked at them and thought… WTF? this is dumb.

Mighty fricking cool, but dumb. No way, nobody is going to pay $1.99 for television shows, not for postage stamp video. We’re past that now. We past that point a long time ago. When Quicktime first came out, postage stamp sized video novelty came and went. Surely nobody is really going to waste their hard earned money on shows that they could Tivo or record with their DVR for free just to watch them on their iPod right?

OK, write this down, the Poohbah was wrong. I thought I was wrong once before but I was mistaken.

I have had a couple other iPods in the past, a 10gig, and a 30gig. My 30 gig crapped out about 6 months ago. Out of warranty I had simply not replaced it. I didn’t use it that much anymore anyway. I still had all my tunes, and after all I have XM now on my Motorcycle so why lug around yet another device?

I scored an IPod Video for Xmas (the 30 gig flavor) and thusly needed to resurrect my collection of music and make it portable again. I also got to see what it’s like to use this product on the Windows platform vs. the Mac.

I used to be a dual platform person. I still use a Mac when I have to, but I work in a Windows world and thusly live on a Windows Box. My primary laptop is a Windows laptop, my primary development machine at home is a Windows PC. My former primary laptop (where all my tunes are) is an Apple TiBook of the G4 877mhz Variety upgraded with a SuperDrive, running 10.3.9, Nope, never put Tiger on it. I have a 1.25ghz 15″er at work that has Tiger on it.

I’ve spent the last two day’s getting my tunes from the laptop to the PC and getting my new Video iPod going.

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WordPress 2.0 is Released

Posted on December 27, 2005 by datapoohbah

WordPress 2.0 the best FREE web bloging, web site software around has been released, and we’re running the latest and greatest here. There are still a few things that seem a tad wonky if you’re running on IIS.

For instance you need to comment out two lines in the default wp-settings.php
file (lines 38 & 39) at least the way php is configured here.

What the Tech Bubble looked like for us.

Posted on December 27, 2005 by CmdrChalupa

The 2001 recession was followed by a lengthy jobless recovery. The private-sector employment trough occurred in June 2003; at that time employment from peak (March 2001) was down by almost 3% or 3.3 million jobs. Employment in IT industries, however, fell much faster and continued to decline all the way into 2004. IT employment bottomed out in February 2004, which represented a 23% contraction or 1.3 million fewer IT jobs in the economy. At its employment peak in February 2001, IT accounted for 5.2% of all private-sector employment, but this share has been on the decline ever since and now represents approximately 4.1% of all private-sector employment.

Ouch.

Chipotle mmm good!

Posted on December 26, 2005 by datapoohbah

As you know, the Poohbah’s highly endorse Chipotle!

I scored a number of Chipotle gift cards for Christmas. Don’t know if you’ve ever taken the time to read the back of one of these things but it’s rather humorous.

Treat this card like cash, really good, yummy cash.

Of course, your Chipotle “Burrito Bank” card may only bu used for making purchases at Cipotle restaurants – you can try to use it someplace else, but we doubt they’ll accept it, and they may even laugh at you. it cannot be redeemed for cash or applied as payament to any account unless required by law. Chipotle is not responsible for unauthorized use of this Card – namely, someone other than the rightful owner using it to score a burrito, or anything less sinister like scraping ice off of your windshield or gum off of your shoe. Except in certain circumstances, the value of this card will not be replaced if the Card is lost, stolen or destroyed. Use of this card…