Archive for January, 2006

Big news on the work front

Read all about it here!

Big news on the work front

Read all about it here!

Sun developer hardware program, part III

One more update on my interactions with the Sun developer hardware program (for history, see this and this). Today, I got a couple of emails from the program owner for the development hardware offering, who quickly helped me understand that the situation is better than I thought.  Specifically, I misunderstood the web content, which says: [...]

Sun developer hardware program, part III

One more update on my interactions with the Sun developer hardware program (for history, see this and this). Today, I got a couple of emails from the program owner for the development hardware offering, who quickly helped me understand that the situation is better than I thought.  Specifically, I misunderstood the web content, which says: [...]

Developer promotion, Sun, part II

Yesterday, I blogged about my frustration with the almost-perfect-and-then-bad experience with Sun’s partner program. Today, I got an email from Sun’s Director of Web Experience Design (whose name I won’t mention because I don’t know if he minds being mentioned on the public web), telling me it’s not normal practice, and that he’d like the [...]

Developer promotion, Sun, part II

Yesterday, I blogged about my frustration with the almost-perfect-and-then-bad experience with Sun’s partner program. Today, I got an email from Sun’s Director of Web Experience Design (whose name I won’t mention because I don’t know if he minds being mentioned on the public web), telling me it’s not normal practice, and that he’d like the [...]

Weather widgets

Why do so many weather widgets show you the current weather?  In what circumstances is it easier to use an app of any kind or look at the top of a web page than to look up from the computer or phone?

Weather widgets

Why do so many weather widgets show you the current weather?  In what circumstances is it easier to use an app of any kind or look at the top of a web page than to look up from the computer or phone?

Grr. Sun Microsystems and customer self-service, or lack thereof…

We’re “development partners” of Sun’s.  We just got spam saying that we have access to development machines at “deep discounts”.  So I go to the website, ask to unearth my password, wait for the email to get to me, login, and get: Deep discounts on development hardware are available to you! For additional information please [...]

Grr. Sun Microsystems and customer self-service, or lack thereof…

We’re “development partners” of Sun’s.  We just got spam saying that we have access to development machines at “deep discounts”.  So I go to the website, ask to unearth my password, wait for the email to get to me, login, and get: Deep discounts on development hardware are available to you! For additional information please [...]