Posted by Ian Holsman
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:17:00 GMT
I heard a interesting thing on TV just then. Spokespeople for polygamy are pushing for it to be legalized as gay marriages are.
they have a point. the major objection to gay marriage has always been the bible says “no”. Since that is not being considered in gay marriage.. why not just change the relationship number from 1:1 to 0-N:0-N and be done with it.
I don’t think it would be any stranger than the relationships i’ve saw at school growing up with all the divorces and re-marriages going on. It’s about having a supportive home for me, not about the number (or type) of the adults in the relationship
Posted in General | Tags marriage | 4 comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:22:00 GMT
Just got this email from Sony. Talk about being screwed over.
In January I purchased a new TV. Part of the deal was that you got a PS3 with it.
now.. they had run out of stock so I needed to wait a bit for delivery.. OK I thought I can do that. 3-4 weeks later the TV arrived.
now they tell me I won’t see the PS3 until May. 4-5 MONTHS after I bought it.
What a total waste of energy.
Last time I buy something from Sony.. thats for sure.
—
Dear Ian,
Thank you once again for participating in the Sony Bonus PLAYSTATION®3 promotion with the purchase of your BRAVIA LCD TV. We have received your claim and everything has been validated.
Now for your PLAYSTATION®3.
We understand you’ve been waiting an exceptionally long time, far longer than we initially anticipated. Please accept our apologies for this frustrating situation and please be assured we’re doing all we can to rectify it as quickly as possible.
As you’re no doubt aware, we had an overwhelming response to this promotion – so much so that our substantial PLAYSTATION®3 stocks in Australia were quickly exhausted and we had to order more from overseas. Unfortunately, that takes time but we’re happy to report that the wait is at last almost over.
We’ll be shipping your PLAYSTATION®3 to you from May 12.
Thank you for buying Sony and again, thank you for your continued patience. We’re sorry for the delay in delivering your bonus PLAYSTATION®3 but it will be with you very soon.
Kind regards,
The Sony Team
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Posted by Ian Holsman
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:57:00 GMT
I just submitted my final assignment "An analysis of WalMart’s leaked brand positioning" and i’m done.
Looking back over the last couple of years, I think doing the course was valuable, as it opened my eyes up to different things that I didn’t know I didn’t know. I wish I didn’t "waste" some of the electives. What made them a waste? shitty lecturers. One night one of these "brains" spent 2 hours teaching people how to use a calcualtor to do NPV calculations.
The other thing is I think the way they teach subjects should move a bit more with the times. Closed book exams? I mean.. who (besides ANZ bank) does not have full internet access nowadays? or not use IM?
I think the worst example of this came through with a economics exam question that was worth 20%.
Some thing along the lines of
‘describe the XYZ theorem’ or ‘explain the 2 major inputs into ABC law and where you would use it’
where XYZ was one of about 50 different theorems we learnt. what pissed me off is that I forget the name of the theorem, but could have explain it for 3-4 pages when I knew WTF they were on about.
anyway.. i’m happy that I did it.
now the bigger question:
Am I going to get a ROI on the $$$ I spent doing it and the time spent sitting in a classroom above what I would have got putting that in the stockmarket or as a deposit for a small apartment.
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Posted by Ian Holsman
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:27:00 GMT
So in my quest to find the most obscure route to dulles I am flying via Tokyo next week.
I have a 17 hour layover, and was wondering if anyone could recommend some things to do and see.
There is a temple in Narita which looks good.
also.. anyone know of cool japanese games for the PSIII which haven’t been released outside of japan? I’m hoping they will work on my local box.
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Posted by Ian Holsman
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:57:00 GMT
I call the US a LOT, and usually use a land line.
having a bad connection I switched to skype, and it was crystal clear.. much clearer than my land line.
you got to love progress
Posted in General | Tags skype | 4 comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:37:00 GMT
Email/recorded conversations has let me down twice in about 8 hours.
The first conversation was about what someone said in a email and now is on permanent record and thanks to that i’m in the shit.
The other one caused someone else to get so pissed off he decided to resign.
My thinking is permanence/non refutability/non plausiable denail of email/IM will be it’s downfall and is a hinderance to global communication not a help.
I don’t need anonymity. I need a way to talk/email people so that cant’ forward/CC/record+replay it. so I can be as frank and honest to people as if i were saying it to them face to face, and not 2nd guessing what would happen if this email was forwarded.
Posted in General | Tags sad | 1 comment
Posted by Ian Holsman
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:48:00 GMT
I’ll be in dublin next week.
if anyone wants to catch up for a beer.. please ping me
Posted in General | Tags dublin | 5 comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:14:00 GMT
So when I finished up working at the bank nearly a year ago, one of the discussions I had with my manager at the time was about the new position.
one of his remarks was that a manager you would (and should) lose your technical skills, and he was quite proud on how he has lost his (yes he was a PHB). I compared this to google’s management technical recruitment process (and AOL has also moved this way in my division) that you NEED to be technically advanced in your area in order to succeed.
now obviously the first thought was AOL and google rely on technical skills to succeed and as such they need their managers
to at understand what is going on, but to be honest so do banks. (different areas of technology, but skills none the less).
So my thought for the moment is: are we as an industry moving to where large corporates require management to be have technical knowledge, or are internet companies just exceptions to the rule?
Posted in General | Tags hr | 2 comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:48:00 GMT
to see how good Arkayne’s related article feature is
Posted in General | Tags test | 2 comments
Posted by Ian Holsman
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:16:00 GMT
i’m a bit behind on net news lately..
I just read a big announcement that yahoo is supporting openID.
But when I read the fine print i was disappointed. What it says is yahoo will let you use your existing Yahoo ID on other sites, but it won’t let you use existing OpenID service provider elsewhere. AOL is in the same boat.. I can use my AOL ID on external sites, but not use a external openId to log into their finance site (they say it’s going to happen as soon as they can get the product managers OK with it at least)
So.. at the moment I think all of this openID support is just fluff for most of the large sites.
the only win I can see is for smaller sites, who want to make it easier for people to register
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