and the body count continues to climb in chicago… quite sadly, historic chicago retailer, montgomery ward, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy today after 128 years of business. 450 people were laid off and 252 stores will be closed. founder aaron montgomery ward was one of the founding fathers of retail in chicago. the may report [...]
apparently, intel doesn’t think that a known bug with their pentium 4 chip justifies a halt in its production: CNET.com - News - Enterprise Computing - Minor bug lingers in Pentium 4
i’ve added an audio section to the site. it will be updated slowly, but surely. it will mostly be a collection of links mainly of interest to audiophiles and those who are interested in professional audio.
i’ve also added the blogvoices.com powered mechanism for commenting on my blog. please feel free to add your comments!
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i’ve been amazingly busy in the past few days–mostly with work. but i figured i should make some attempt to post something timely since i’m getting a good deal of hits from people searching for funny gore pictures. no funny gore pictures today, but have you heard that gore was nominated for president of harvard [...]
continuing the tradition of terrible al gore photos… here is a reuters photo of al gore. it looks like someone gave him a full face hickey. the funny thing is, he actually is looking more and more like reagan–as letterman has suggested on his show.
here’s an interesting ap article about shop-bots slowing e-tail sites down. i won’t buy anything without running it by a shop-bot first. my current favorite shop-bot is pricegrabber.com. it even factors in shipping costs for you.
it was a dark day in chicago tech today. lante announced a 19% reduction to its workforce, worldwide.
