Nov

27

new theme

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i was getting bored with the modified blix..so here’s something i found at the wordpress site..

Nov

26

More Toys-R-Us Lameness

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Wow, so today’s “Cyber Monday” and Paypal’s doing this cool thing where you can get 20% off any purchase when you pay with paypal.  Great, EXCEPT for uber lame Toys-R-Us who does the following to the new, popular games:

Lamers-R-Us

Nov

21

Toys R Us and Poor Customer Service

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Heather went to Toys R Us in Alpharetta, GA (Northpoint) to pick up a Wii game.  She asked the clerk (who might have been the manager?)  for this particular title.  He claimed (a bold lie, he didn’t even look and Best Buy has had the game on their shelves for at least a week, maybe longer) that it was not out yet.  He failed to actually check — he just didn’t want to deal with it, he was rude, and therefore they will not be getting any more of our money.

A similar situation happened to me at a gamestop off Mansel Rd. in GA as well only this time, the punk kid kept forgetting to give details like 20% less credit for a trade in game if you choose to take cash instead of store credit.  The kid and his manager seemed to care more about “closing down the store and leaving” than taking care of customers.  It’s pretty frustrating seeing the quality of the people hired by most large chains these days.  Mom and pop shops might charge a little more, but the employees are typically curteous and take care to answer your questions instead of looking through you, giving you some half-assed answer like “what you see is what we have” and walking away, which is what happened to me at the Apple store at North-Point mall.  I simply asked another employee and they checked in the warehouse (as I had asked the first guy to do) and found the item I wanted.

Toys R Us, Apple and Gamestop, get your acts together or your customer base is going to drop like a rock.

Nov

13

Startup weekend and work

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Atlanta Startup Weekend ended up being pretty cool.  I met a lot of smart people and will hopefully see many of them again at the next professional gathering (whatever that might be).  After three days with practically no sleep (preceeded a solid week of work), I was practically useless this past Monday.  I managed to get through the day and even fix some bugs — it worked out.  The cool thing is that one of my tasks for this week involves adding .Net language support for the Appcelerator framework.  What’s that mean? You’ll be writing Appcelerator apps backed by a C#/C++/VB.net backend in the not too distant future.

Why would anyone care? Well, I suppose you _could_ go the ASP.net route, but Appcelerator makes for a spiffy front end and it’s reliable to boot.  It’s open source, easy learning curve, and is muy badass (as far as web frameworks go).  The Skribit widget was written in it (although it’s not finished — it’s missing status messages and such).

All of this means that you might be seeing me write more freeware soon — maybe some webapps, just for fun.  We’ll see how it goes.

Nov

11

Skribit

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Stay tuned for the beta launch of Skribit from the folks at Atlanta Startup Weekend!