Posted on July 23, 2008 at 4:59:42 PM
So I received two new Discover cards, with supposed enhanced security features. I didn’t ask for them, they just sent them to me. I got a new account number which is a pain because various merchants directly bill my credit card and they will have to be updated, by me.
You know the little stickers on the credit cards, call xxx-xxx-xxxx to activate your credit card? Do they actually do anything or add to security? Would the card not work if I didn’t call the number?
Well the nice lady who got on the line to activate my card promptly switched scripts and (after thanking me for being a customer for sooo long) promptly started selling me something.
How annoying. Tricked me into calling them to get their sales pitch.
Posted on July 23, 2008 at 3:42:00 PM
Check this post The 7 deadly sins and 10 lessons of a failed startup from Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
"Building a startup is the most difficult, and most rewarding, thing anyone can do. Sometimes you can even make some money at the end of it all. There are so many things that can go wrong it is a miracle when a startup actually makes it. It is important to celebrate our successes, learn from our failures, and value them equally. Failure is important…because success is a terrible teacher."
Posted on July 21, 2008 at 8:00:00 AM
An interesting, quirky, though-provoking — memorable article in Wired about Memory:
“[snip…]SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you’re about to forget.” (from Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn?)
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Posted on July 20, 2008 at 10:00:46 AM
Yeah I know all the reviews have been raving - “Best movie this year” - “Will change your life” - and so on. I saw this new animated film last night. It did have really wonderful “Star Wars”-class visuals but as an overall story and movie experience, well, it was fine. Not even as good as Toy Story. Sorry.
Posted on July 19, 2008 at 3:13:54 PM
If you haven’t seen this and you shoot a lot of digital photos, you will love this product; also seems like a great gift: “Upload photos automatically from your digital camera to your computer and favorite photo site with the world’s first wireless memory card.” See Eye-Fi web site.
Posted on July 17, 2008 at 9:44:30 PM
The other day I came across this article in the Boston Globe about one of the greats of Computer Science, Seymour Papert, inventor of the seminal Logo programming language and many other important accomplishments.
“He was long a jewel of the MIT faculty. Now, after a devastating brain injury, mathematician Seymour Papert is struggling bravely to learn again how to think like, speak like, be like the man of genius he was.” (from In Search of a Beautiful Mind, The Boston Globe)
Hard to believe that I hadn’t heard of it before. So Sad. Read the whole article, it’s worthwhile.
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