"My bad" for losing $14.2m
You know, if I had just taken a $14.2m Q3 loss, I'd say more then "My bad". As quoted in a letter to investors from Overstock President Patrick Byrne.
Store Medical Images on the iPod
Okay, this is just plain cool! This allows medical professionals to use iPod's to view medical images. With the small screen, I hope it's large enough for medical use, but still has some serious potential. Let's just hope Apple doesn't decide to sue them over licensing.
Coming From Microsoft: 'Hosted Everything'
Well, it's official; Microsoft has decided to roll out their hosted infrastructure for their CRM and ERP products. Good thing RightNow Technologies adopted this model several years ago and are one of the few on demand CRM suites currently available. Should be interesting to see how this plays out in the next couple years.
Photo Gallery
I figured it was time I moved my photo gallery from my own home grown version to pull from Flickr's, since I have been using them for almost a year now. I'll be adding more features like PhotoSets, etc in the near future, but you can browse all my images for now. Let me know if there are any issues.
Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?
Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?: "Lam1969 writes 'Computerworld just released their latest salary survey, and it finds that IT worker bees have once again only received small raises. The article notes, 'IT raises still lagged slightly behind the average of about 3.2% for all U.S. workers as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the majority of respondents (69%) said their 2004 base salary increased from one year ago, 31% experienced either no change in salary or had their pay cut.' It goes on to quote LAN specialist Stephen Noisseau as saying, 'I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles ... I'll take 4% over nothing. We're getting basically cost-of-living raises.''"