In four years, the UNC Bears have improved from a 4-24 record to win the Big Sky conference championship and get their first ever spot in the NCAA tournament.
This is a shout out for the Greeley home team. Good luck in the big dance!
Credit Card Borrowing Back Up
U.S. Consumer debt increased in January for the 4th month in a row. Does this mean it’s the end of the recession (finally) or have we all just forgotten the tough lessons we learned two years ago?
Microsoft’s not dead, just selling Kinects
Dvorak’s opinion is based on comments that Microsoft won’t have a tablet product out until next year…
The company looks like it has an ingrained fear of failure, resulting in an incredibly cautious approach to everything. You’d think this would result in a mistake-free corporate environment, but the opposite seems true.
Generally speaking, the high-tech sector is a lot like football. Playing not to lose results in a preoccupation with losing, and eventually losing.
Microsoft is in perpetual defense: When it has the ball, the company does not want to take any risks, so runs up the middle for no yardage.
Apparently Dvorak is just looking at the wrong products. To extend his football analogy, Microsoft just ran a gadget play for a score. The Microsoft Kinects just set a Guiness World Record for the fastest selling consumer electronic device of ALL TIME.
The news comes from Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson who made the announcement via Twitter by saying, “News: 10 Million Kinect Sensors and more than 10 Million Kinect Games Sold to Date.”
This makes the Kinect the fastest selling consumer electronics device according to Guiness.
So while everyone else is fiddling with smartphones and pads, which I’m sure have zip for margins because of the competition, Microsoft has made the hottest gaming console add on ever. Not sure that makes them dead money
Update:
Looks like tablets are a bubble and might not be the best product to be producing right now…
Why I hate Joomla!
Attempted to update a Joomla! install on a client’s site this morning. The install apparently failed, immediately ing:
Fatal error: Cannot make non static method JApplication::getRouter() static in class JSite in /home/frppro5/public_html/includes/application.php on line 616
Nothing on the Joomla! forums or any answers as near as I can tell. Wish they wouldn’t put in an automatic update feature if it’s not going to at least fail more gracefully than this did. Guess I’m just spoiled with WordPress…
Amber Branson coaches basketball team 24 hours after having baby
This one is for my sister who blathers on continuously about how hard it is to have a baby. Amber Branson, coach of the Lipan Texas Indian’s girls basketball team, helped her girls win a state playoff semi-final game less than 24 hours after giving birth.
Why you aren’t married
Great article on Huffington Post about marriage and how to find the right man.
Here is just one tidbit of sage wisdom from the article.
The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them. I am the mother of a 13-year-old boy, which is like living with the single-cell protozoa version of a husband. Here’s what my son wants out of life: macaroni and cheese, a video game, and Kim Kardashian. Have you ever seen Kim Kardashian angry? I didn’t think so. You’ve seen Kim Kardashian smile, wiggle, and make a sex tape. Female anger terrifies men. I know it seems unfair that you have to work around a man’s fear and insecurity in order to get married — but actually, it’s perfect, since working around a man’s fear and insecurity is big part of what you’ll be doing as a wife.
It’s just so true, all us guys are totally afraid of angry, scary women.
Plastic Bags more Green than Cotton or Paper
An article in The Independent discusses how one study shows Plastic Bags may be more ‘Green’ than paper or reusable cotton bags.
HDPE bags are, for each use, almost 200 times less damaging to the climate than cotton hold-alls favoured by environmentalists, and have less than one third of the Co2 emissions than paper bags which are given out by retailers such as Primark.
The findings suggest that, in order to balance out the tiny impact of each lightweight plastic bag, consumers would have to use the same cotton bag every working day for a year, or use paper bags at least thrice rather than sticking them in the bin or recycling.
The study also finds that most cotton bags are only used 51 times before being discarded. Personally I use almost every plastic bag I get twice, once for groceries and once for trash or other uses around the house. Interesting how ‘Green’ ideas aren’t always good for the environment…
Remembering Dale
I’ve been wanting to post something about this since last weekend. It’s been 10 years since we lost the great Dale Earnhardt at Daytona, and I still get a little emotional when I think about it.
The most amazing thing I ever saw Dale do was in the 1991 Busch Clash. He won the first segment and had to start at the back for the second segment. By Turn 3 in the second lap he had passed the whole field to be in the lead again. It was really awesome.
“To come back leading the race after two laps was amazing to me,“ Earnhardt said. “I didn`t believe we could do it. I thought it would take King Kong to come from 14th to first in 10 laps, and I sure didn`t think we could do it in two.“
This video is from the 1993 Busch Clash where he did the same thing, although it took him a little longer to get back to the front.
What great days those were. Dale driving the Chevrolet Number 3 for GM. I remember them well, and I’ll always miss the legend.
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Hawaii 5-0 – Grace Park gets to “Bing It” with her Windows 7 phone
If you have seen the 2010 reincarnation of Hawaii 5-0 you know that it’s really just a big commercial. The Chevy Camaro product placement is over the top obvious. Each episode is like a Super Bowl commercial for GM.
I have no problem with this. Since, like many of you, I primarily use my Tivo to watch TV, I don’t pay much attention to commercials these days. If product placement helps CBS pay the bills, I say go for it.
The thing that was amusing about this week’s episode was Microsoft’s attempt at genericizing their trademark by writing a line for Grace Park that uses “bing” as a verb.
The funny thing about this is it’s absurdity. It would have been so much more natural if Chin had told Kono to “google it” on Bing…