There’s an elephant in the room when it comes to the internet. Microsoft wishes it was them, Yahoo’s just had too much to drink, and there’s a big purple elephant in the corner — Google.
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An Unlikely Monopoly – What’s Wrong with Google AdSense
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
To Hell & Back – A Story of Windows Vista
Monday, June 16th, 2008I recently helped my nephew Peter do a massive overhaul/upgrade of his current PC. We basically rebuilt his PC and the only thing he kept was his recently purchased insane-o vid card and his hard drive. Several hours later we had his new PC up and running–hardware wise at least.
One of the orders of the day–much to my dismay–was to install Windows Vista. I advised him not too, but he got his aunt to get it for him for his birthday and he rationalized his defiance of my advice on DirectX 10. (Truth be told, I sabotaged myself by telling him it was one of the only neat features of Vista, outside of massive memory footprint and overall sluggishness.)
And so our journey began..
I’d like to tell you it didn’t take us in excess of 2 days to get Vista installed. I mean, I’ve been building PCs for years now and I’m a recent grad of Computer Engineering (I know the two aren’t the same, but still..). Piece of cake, right?
Wrong.
Condos, You Know What Your Problem is?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008I was driving to work today watching all the advertisements for newly created condos in nearby towns when I started craving one. This has been a recurring theme. I want a condo. Then I thought about it more and was completely lambasted. What on earth do I want a Condo for? Think about it. You spend 30 years paying a mortgage, only to have the privilege of paying forever ongoing rent in the form of maintenance.
Sure, that maintenance goes to something. It pays for the pool, the trash collectors, the gym, and the community. Some Condos even go so far as to have Supermarkets, Starbucks, and Ice Cream Shops right below. Oh, the horrible convenience!
But that word community is the clincher. The gyms at these places are usually terrible, and what happens if you want to go to your own gym? Or, hell, get a Bowflex, or whatever it is Chuck Norris is selling now? You can, but you’re not going to get any of your maintenance money back. It’s assigned for the community. And tomorrow, the community may decide it needs more maintenance.
Then it occurred to me.
Condos are nothing more than little communist societies. They are the absolutely hypocritical hallmark of capitalistic American wealth. And we love them.