The customer is always right? Not anymore
This is an intereting article. For sure, there are customers that are not worth having… but how do you tactfully get rid of them. I guess thats part of what Best Buy is having to deal with.
Its an interesting article, I guess I would be one of those customers. [...]

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I made a visit to Sam’s club this evening. Its supposed to be low prices and good deals for business….. and my intern said I could save a ton of money.
So I thought, it might be worth checking out, as I hadn’t been there for a few years. The surroundings were spartan as I remember, [...]

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I just took a break from yet another session of RF engineering. At least I’m getting a good handle on time domain amplification.
So here’s my personality test… which I don’t fit exactly. I’m an ENTP, but am pretty close to crossing the line to I,S, and F.

ENTP - “Inventor”. Enthusiastic interest in [...]

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A23-L5T3XX.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Paralight has some cool parts. The L-5T3PU1C-D1 is a UV led. Its spectral output is centered on 400nm. Unfortunately its not really bright, but then again, having a lot of its luminous intensity outside of the visual spectrum is going to drop it down anyhow.
Now its a matter of finding the killer app.

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Treo 600 Stops Vibrating - Can this FAQ answer be for real?
This is pretty funny, it almost makes me think of a Dilbert cartoon and ISO 9000. At least they worked out a procedure.
Looks like Handspring got some vib motors that get hung up from time to time, or they have a process contamination issue. [...]

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Deep Green Crystals: Sipura VOIP adapter finally on sale!
A few months back I was asked to take a look at a cordless phone to VOIP adaptor. Its a royal pain to have to be tied to the computer… and wireless headsets and the like for the computer have much to be desired.
This is one cool [...]

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Linux News: Commentary: Formula One Racing and High-Tech Companies
Some interesting analogies were presented. Having spent a couple years working on a project with Minardi F1 I can really see the analogy. Although Minardi had very stiff competition, the team work really showed through. There was a great number of things I learned during that time.

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I just had a brilliant idea for a new software product.
A lot of websites want you to sign up for content… A stupid idea IMHO, but I have the solution.
A program like gator that does an autofill in with a temporary email address. The idea is that the program would go out and parse the [...]

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GPS Coke Can can obtained and X-rayed - Engadget - www.engadget.com
This is not a good situation. A marketing idea that has serious consequences. I would have thought Coke would have known better. The problem is that it wouldn’t take much rocket science to change the basic IED concept to mirror the GPS Coke. If you [...]

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alphaWorks : aDesigner
This is a cool app for webmasters. It allows you to view your site as a visually impaired person would. I just found it, but will be firing it up and checking over my sites this weekend. I will post a review of it afterwards.
AOL did well, but MSN and Yahoo did fairly [...]

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