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Go Bolts

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I don’t always follow sports as I don’t play them much anymore. However, its good to see the hometown boys kick some ass.

Now first place in the AFC West. Thank you. Thank you very much. Could this be the start of a dynasty? Let’s not get our hopes too high just yet. It would be nice to see the Chargers in the “Big Game” more than once every ten or fifteen years though.

Hey, maybe they could even win it in my lifetime? Anything is possible. Hey, at least I’m not a Cubs fan.

Cheers.

Another reason to love the Macintosh

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Although I deal mostly with the Macintosh, I do work with Windows as well so I feel the pain for these guys. Fun way to spend a couple of days.

Ok, continue to enjoy your weekend. Cheers.

College Photographer of the Year

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The winners of the 2004 (and 59th) College Photographer of the Year have been announced. Check them out. Some great photographs.

And, more on the post from yesterday regarding iPods boosting Mac sales. It’s called momentum people.

Some News

For some of my friends who love Dr. Who, the show was first broadcast on this day in 1963. Happy anniversary Dr.

Also, in other news, Google is being sued by an adult website saying the internet search engine’s image search is delivering thumbnails of its pictures for free.

And, in TiVo news. The company ended its third quarter with 2.3 million users. That’s more than twice what it had a year ago but it still lost money in the quarter. Unfortunately, 61% of Tivos are sold through DirecTV, and Tivo only gets $1.30 a month from those customers. 

Also, large marketing expenses helped boost Tivo’s losses to $26 million last quarter, more than three times the losses of a year ago. Revenue was aldo down 11.4%. Now, they are thinking of putting banner adds on the screen when you fast-forward through commercials. I’m not sure that’s the way to keep customers and attract new ones. Has TiVo become the new Apple?

Finally, Apple’s stock price has hit a four year high due to ipod sales. An analyst at Piper Jaffray says this is for real. His research shows that ipods end up selling people on Macs. They see how great the ipod is and decide that the computer must be that great as well. Then, they buy a Mac. He’s increased his price target for the stock to $100. The stock is currently over $61.

So, take that Apple haters. As I said before, Apple isn’t going anywhere.

Disappointing

I’ve been waiting for this gadget to arrive for many moons. I have been searching for the perfect PDA/Phone/etc. combo and I hoped that the Treo 650 would fit the bill. But this is a bummer. Now, I don’t know what to do. Maybe it will end up not being a big deal.

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Although, the Sony Ericcson P910 is starting to look better and better. Now, if only it wasn’t $800.00. Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything.

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Monday Monday pt. 2

For old times sake. 101 ways to save Apple Computer. It’s fun to see what they did, if anything, and where they ended up. Doing pretty well lately. Selling all those iPods and all. My prediction: Apple is not going anywhere.

Classic

I love how overpaid, pampered “athletes” act when things don’t go their way. Great example.

My big question about this though is, where the hell was security? This thing lasted several minutes with nary a security guard, cop or usher in sight. What’s going on with that?

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Rumors of my death . . .

No, I’m not dead. Or, for that matter, sick. Or, anything else really. Just sorta out of it. I have been busy working and writing and slaving for the man. Really, since I own my own business, I guess I’m the man. Hey, my boss is a real asshole making me work so much.

I think the reason I work so hard is that I live in Los Angeles. It’s very expensive to live here. Housing is expensive. Gas is expensive. Food is expensive. It’s all very expensive. Please, those of you who live in Manhattan or San Francisco, don’t write to me and tell me that your city is more expensive and how could I say LA is expensive and blah, blah, blah.

I will go on the record right now and say that New York is a very expensive place to live and so is San Francisco. If I lived in one of those cities, I’m sure I would be working very hard as well. However, I live in LA so I will focus on that. Ok?

Today in LA it’s Saturday morning and the sun its out. I haven’t ventured outside yet but I looked out the window. Looks like a nice day. We have several things planned for today (I think). I do know that our cleaning people are coming today to do what they do best (besides move things around and not put them back where they go). Also, I’m sure we will get some lunch and then perhaps go for coffee later.

I do need to meet up with my friends Courtney and Tony to discuss Tony’s movie that he plans to shoot in December. I haven’t been keeping close tabs on it so I don’t know exactly how its going. I want to try to help so I will give them the benefit of whatever expertise I may have.

You know, I’m starting to feel like this post is not going so well. I shouldn’t write with a hangover. We went to Birds and some other bar last night for my friend J. Rod’s birthday. We had a few beers and such so that pretty much makes my brain no worky so well in the morning.

I’ll try to wake up and shake out the cobwebs and get back to you.