Archive for May, 2009
Migrating to a Netbook and Ubuntu 9.04
Last week my wife’s Acer Aspire One came back from repair and since we bought her a new laptop I inherited it for my one use. Since I have been tossing around the idea of finally migrating to Linux for personal use I took this opportunity to do so. I was pleasantly surprised with how [...]
Marketing Premium Goods
Image via Wikipedia In Seth Godin’s blog post entitled “Luxury vs. premium” he defines the difference between luxury and premium goods were at their core “Luxury goods are organized waste” and “Premium goods…are expensive variants of commodity goods.” With a premium good you get better performance while with a luxury good you are primarily getting [...]
Microsoft Released Office 2007 Service Pack 2 This Week
Microsoft released Office Service Pack 2 this week (download here) which provides some much needed performance improvements in Outlook, Excel charting, and interoperability. Among the most significant features users may find is the ability to save documents to PDF, XPS, and Open Document format without additional add-ons. While much of the world is running Office [...]
