Archive for March, 2008
Airline bag solutions
Saturday, March 29th, 2008The title of this post may be misleading, because I am not sure that I have one yet. A solution. Sometimes it helps to start writing and see if the answer comes. Meanwhile here is what prompted the idea:
An article at the Times, Waging the Battle of the Overhead Bin, quotes the frustrations of both [...]
Best Buy gets women, in training
Friday, March 28th, 2008As I was reading this piece at the Hub Magazine (Best Buy is winning with women), I was reminded of a friend describing a trip to an electronics store a few years ago. She was looking for a new audio system, and had taken along a guy friend for company. The sales staff only spoke [...]
Google’s search-within-search rocks
Thursday, March 27th, 2008First I saw this article in the Times on Monday: A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites. And I suspected that as usual, I would not find it alarming. I did not. So I was going to post something then, about how maybe competition is all around on the web anyway — so where was [...]
Pingg’ed at last
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Today I got pingg’ed, and it was such a pleasure.
For years I have endured Evite invitations, which consist of emails with no content. From the user’s perspective, that is. The emails offer a big link, and one generally knows the sender, but the lack of any real information requires you to click and visit a [...]