Category Archives: Workplace / Business

You can’t just ask customers what they want…

By thecodepounder | Published January 28, 2010

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
– Steve Jobs

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Even today, Congress just has too much time on its hands

By thecodepounder | Published July 24, 2009

David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times, The Irksome Cellphone  Industry:
In recent weeks, the Senate Commerce Committee has been holding hearings about handset exclusivity. That’s when a phone maker (like Apple) offers a particular model (like the iPhone) to a carrier (like AT&T) exclusively for a period of time (like five years).
Come to [...]

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Steve Jobs is back at work

By thecodepounder | Published June 29, 2009

As if anyone didn’t already know, it’s now official.  New York Times:
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple said Monday that Steven P. Jobs, its co-founder and chief executive, had returned to work following a five-month medical leave during which he had a liver transplant.
“Steve is back to work,” said Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman. “He is currently [...]

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Racism still ‘alive and well’ in the Tennessee Legislature

By thecodepounder | Published June 17, 2009

While we’re on the subject of sad commentaries… It would appear that racism is quite unfortunately still alive and well in the Tennessee Legislature.
The Tennessean:
Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide for Senate Republican Caucus Chairwoman Diane Black, sent the e-mail last month to other staff for Republican senators. It shows a portrait or photo of each [...]

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Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners rejecting new gun-carry law

By thecodepounder | Published June 17, 2009

Tennessee’s restaurant and club owners are rejecting the state’s new “booze it and shoot it” law in droves by establishing policies for their business(es) that prohibit the carrying of firearms on the premises.  Many are concerned with the obvious (well, obvious to everyone but the NRA’s lobbyists and the lawmakers who take their money, er [...]

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Call Legal

By thecodepounder | Published May 8, 2009

Today’s Non Sequitur is priceless on multiple levels…

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Redmond, WA getting stimulus money to build a bridge for Microsoft

By thecodepounder | Published April 7, 2009

CBS News:
(CBS) Millions of your stimulus tax dollars are already going to work in affluent Redmond, Wash., the home of Microsoft, where unemployment is among the lowest in the nation.
The stimulus money will help build a bridge over Redmond’s only freeway, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. It’s at a spot that happens [...]

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Bible Park USA back to square one in Wilson County, hopefully for good

By thecodepounder | Published March 5, 2009

The Tennessean newspaper is reporting that the Lebanon City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to rescind all previous bible park legislation, due to the failure of the park’s developer to supply financials after repeated requests:
LEBANON — Developers of the proposed Bible Park USA were scrambling Wednesday to determine where the project stands after Tuesday’s surprise [...]

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Louisiana seeing repurcussions from anti-science legislation

By thecodepounder | Published February 15, 2009

“Louisiana has the best elected officials money can buy,” or so goes the joke I’ve been telling since the time I was finally able to flee the state when I was 17. Like all good humor, this joke is rooted in truth and reality–something that can’t be said for the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act.
And, [...]

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Microsoft t-shirts showing up in Seattle area thrift stores

By thecodepounder | Published February 5, 2009

Possibly due to recent layoffs.

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More skeletons come marching out of Ted Haggard’s closet

By thecodepounder | Published January 24, 2009

Associated Press, Disgraced pastor faces more gay sex accusations:
DENVER (AP) – Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard’s former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard – a revelation that comes as Haggard tries to repair his [...]

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Don Randall, the man who named the Stratocaster, dies

By thecodepounder | Published January 12, 2009

Associated Press:
Don Randall, the marketing dynamo who gave Fender’s Stratocaster guitar its name and led the brand to onstage ubiquity, has died. He was 91.
Randall died of age-related causes on December 23rd.

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