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Wow!
What a fall!
One of the most amazing things you see on a daily basis is good intentions waylaid by poor execution.
What is this lawsuit about: people buying bottom-of-the-heap systems and expecting it to perform as well as the HP Blackbird 002.
Or, like purchasing a Trabant and expecting it to perform as fast as Lewis Hamilton’s rig at the next FIA Formula One Grand Prix race.
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Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction!
Take the case of Google getting into the health records business.
¿Que?
¿Google?
I know, Google.
Isn’t the amount of junk ads we get enough? Isn’t it?
Now, imagine the incredibly detailed and granular level of targeted ads they would serve to you based on your medical records?
Hell freakin’ NO!
I don’t think so!
I don’t know what I did to deserve this, but this sh*t is pissing me the f off!
For goodness sakes, every day, I get phone calls on my cell, and my ultra-unlisted home phone number from scammers trying to schneider me into getting a new warranty for my rig.
The first time I got a call, I called the local MB dealer, and proceed to tear the manager there a new one.
When he was able to get a word in edgewise, he said it was not them, and that even if they were going to do so, they would have sent me a letter on company letterhead.
Nevertheless, the phone calls have kept on coming, now with demon-dialers, and no way to be removed from their lists.
To crown it all, both my cell phones have started receiving calls!
A few minutes ago, I got a beauty of a call: the caller ID registered a number from England.
Now I ask: are you freakin’ kiddin’ me?
Now I know it couldn’t have come from there, that it was probably a Caller ID spoof.
Still…
Cannot say it enough on this blog:
Caveat Emptor.
Buyer, beware!
In a discovery that could literally save and extend the lives of millions everywhere, doctors have come up with a new laser-aided breath analysis that could detect even early traces of diseases such as lung cancer or asthma.
Wow!
I cannot think of how more useful the basic breathalyzer could become.
Already, it saves lives by allowing the constabulary the ability to removes lushes and other inebriated menaces from our roads.
Now this?
That guy with the perpetual bad breath just might be.......
Today, six weeks after breaking my leg, the cast (orthopedic boot, actually) came off.
My father-in-law, Dr. Edwin Eribo just passed away.
A very great loss, to my wife, her siblings, and our combined families.
He infused his children with a deep belief in God and a great sense of duty.
We will all miss him.
Edwin Osa Eribo, May 8, 1929 - January 25, 2008.
Rest in God's Peace.
When afflicted with some infirmity, you start to know your friends.
I was re-introduced to my friends at the recently concluded 2006 International CES, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In their own ways, these friends made my broken leg a non-issue during the hustle-and-bustle there.
From Chris who wanted me to rent a mobility scooter – which I eventually did, to Terri, who always made sure I was comfortable, to Mike who guarded my leg in the crowds, to Steve who helped carry my coat, to Nick, to Eric, to Geoff, etc.
Friendship, they say, is wealth.
People, I am very wealthy!
One Love to all my friends.
I couldn't have done CES 2008 without you.
Thank you.
I wish everyone a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Many thanks and Praises to the good Lord God for His Grace and goodwill to us all here on earth and everywhere where mankind resides in this and all other galaxies.
I would like to thank the following people, companies, and technologies that made 2007 exciting and aim to make 2008 even better.
My family, including my wife, Kehinde who has to put up with me on a daily basis, and my kids, John and Trevor.
My parents, siblings – Chris & Janet, Grace & Senu, Mary, Greg & Laide, Lucille, and their families.
Best wishes, now and forever to the best dad ever.
I love you always
Does OJ have no shame?
For goodness sakes, this moron stayed out of trouble just enough to cause fatal trouble for another entity!
Just now heard that Court TV kicked it.
After over twelve years of circling the drain, and rehashing old crap.
If only his latest escapade could been timeshifted back a couple of years, it would have helped Court TV stay alive another meaningless decade or so.
Damn you, Orenthal!
It Could Happen To YOU!
Is there a better idea than this for securely sharing files than this?
This post by Robert McLaws on ineptitude of some Sony staffers just lays bare the core problems of the company: serious myopia from the heydays of the Walkman, the Compact Disc, and the original Playstation...
....resulting in the need for either the CEO there or his board to perform emergency recto-cranial extraction surgery on the current DNA of the entire company in order to remake the company.
It took nearly 44 years, but I finally did it!
Yep, broke a bone!
I slipped on some ice, and broke a bone in my ankle this past Wednesday in Northern Colorado!
Just like that!
I thought it was just a bad (translated as ‘painful’) sprain, until, pain unbearable, I checked into the ER at Colorado Plains Medical Center, in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
The ER Nurse on duty, Leigh, took one look at me limping into the facility, asked me to stop right there, and fetched a wheelchair she deposited me into, and off for examination we went.
Taking off my boot – yes, I purchased two (2) new boots for the 30-hour trip, she said ‘ouch’ at the swollen ankle. Don, the MRI technician was tending the el-rayo-x devices, and took a few x-rays of my ankle irradiated me.
Dr. Ken Osgood was the ER hospitalist on duty. He took a look at the ankle, and informed me that I might have broken a bone, a view validated a few moments later when the x-rays were read.
“O crap”, said the normally cool John.
I cancelled the meetings scheduled for the rest of the day, in my head, and proceeded to hope for the best.
Final?
I will be in a hard boot for the next 6-7 weeks. (CES will be a severe pleasure this January!)
One thing you notice is that the attitude of a company’s CEO permeates his/her entire enterprise. If the CEO is a consummate professional, and focused on customer service, it shows, as everyone in the company will strive to deliver a level of satisfaction that would satisfy the CEO. Remember Home Depot during the Nardelli years? ‘Nuff said.
If the CEO is a narcissistic jerk, a two second interaction with his/her minions would reveal that right quick. The absurdly named ‘geniuses’ at Apple stores immediately come to mind.
Professionalism and an excellent level of patient care was what I received at Colorado Plains Medical Center.
Michael Anaya is the CEO of Colorado Plains Medical Center, and I would like to thank him and, by proxy, his entire staff; and also acknowledge and applaud them for the work they do in general, and the work they did on me in particular, when I was their patient.