I stood in virtual line from before midnight PST (saturday) ’til 5.15 am PST (sunday) for Amazon.com to sell Nintendo Wii. The entire duration I was in line, refreshing browser frantically, status for Wii on amazon.com did not change from: This item is currently not available. I read most of the 600+ reviews—which now have [...]
It is well known that new Yahoo! Mail is slow. Very slow. Very, very slow. It is also known to hog system resources to the point where one has to shutdown the browser/computer to make the computer usable again. Despite all that, I have been using new email ’til this evening when I came across [...]
I was at Old Navy store this evening. While looking at some fleece apparel, I noticed the label “Made in Lesotho” on some of them. Not that I am an expert in Geography but I never heard of that nation before. Thanks to wikipedia, I now know where Lesotho is.
I just logged into Y!Messenger and was greeted by this popup window:
The same message popped up again at 2.24 pm, 2.38 pm and 2.45 pm. The message doesn’t give a clue as to who my contact is and when s/he tried to add me to her/his list. Why should I upgrade? I have Y! Messenger [...]
Since today is the first tuesday following the first monday of November in election year, the whole nation seems to be busy with voting. Thank goodness, haven’t had even one caller seeking my support (read: vote). The past couple weeks have been extremely busy. George Bush, Bill Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Arnold Schwarzenegger, et al have [...]
November (13, 2006) edition of Fortune magazine has a small piece about Yahoo!’s likely future. Among the scenarios envisioned is an acquistion of Yahoo! by Microsoft. Far-fetched?
Maybe something is actually cooking! What else can I make of Yahoo’s frontpage promoting IE7? This is what I see in my IE6.x browser:.
The promotion is on Firefox as [...]