Since I haven’t posted in a while I figured I would post something light so as to ease myself back in! :)

Let’s start with a great (though unintentional summary) of how marketing people approach technical problems, courtesy of Overheard in the Office:

Marketing guy: I don’t want you IT guys wasting a lot of time figuring out what’s wrong before you fix it!

More of the same still from Overheard in the Office:

Marketing exec: If we didn’t have to spend so much time telling you our requirements, you could be done with the code already!

Isn’t marketing great? :D

More seriously, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs called the family of a teen who got murdered by thugs who wanted his iPod. While it’s extremely sad that someone would kill to get an iPod, it says something about the icon status of the little white gadget. The fact that Steve Jobs would call the victim’s parents and not sound phony doing it says a lot more about him and his company. I doubt that anyone would kill to get a Dell DJ (or whatever these things are called) and I doubt even more that Michael Dell would call the parents and sound sincere if that were to happen… In any case, let’s hope we will never have to find out and that Steve Jobs will never have to call someone’s parents in similar conditions ever again.

Let’s conclude this little post with something that had me green with jealousy when I read it: Snowbird’s ski season ended on Monday, as in Monday July 4th!!! Snowbird is a great resort and I haven’t been able to get some real snowboarding this winter (sorry but Pennsylvania/Maryland hills don’t count) so you can imagine how I can feel when I read such reports… Oh well, always next year, right?

From The Inside from the album Meteora by Linkin Park

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