The Man Takes His Oil Changes Seriously

He flew the car to Heathrow… I’m surprised he actually got it back. I love reading stories like this if for no other reason than the self-induced outrage from critics is entertaining… throw in a quote from PETA and it would make my day.

A RICH Arab sent his Lamborghini on a 6,500-mile round […]

Local Ad Dollars, Slip Sliding Away

Mark is spot on, newspapers are selling a one-size-fits-all display ad model to local advertisers who won’t buy banners and they are trying to sell these through a sales force ill-equipped and uninterested in selling online ad inventory.

There’s a good but depressing article in the Wall Street Journal about how newspapers are continuing […]

Why I Don’t Eat Out in SF Anymore

Sometimes it unavoidable but if my wife and I are contemplating where to have dinner next Saturday it certainly will not be in SF. Why? Because between the hassles of parking, traffic, and panhandlers, I now often have to deal with already too expensive restaurants nickle-and-diming me to cover their SF mandated living wage, healthcare, […]

Back to the Stone Age

Well it’s relieving to see that Jerry Brown isn’t wasting any time before running for Governor… again. Why not stop with evaluating electrical usage and diesel emissions, they should also be forced to evaluate emissions created by the cars that people will invariably use to get to work, their body heat and CO2 output, methane […]

Improving Online Experience

okay, much of what is in this study falls under “stating the obvious” such as site visitors wanting information fast and that visual design is important. Having said that, there is a lot of subtlety here and it’s worth a read, I found the focus on site and visitor orientation to be interesting.

This […]

Dead Body Found on Delta Airplane

The shocking part of the story is that because Delta doesn’t bother to clean their airplanes anymore in an effort to cut costs, the body wasn’t discovered until the plane had been on 4 roundtrips. Kidding… I’m kidding.

Delta flight attendants found the body of a 61-year-old woman in the restroom of a plane […]

BarackBook

Who knew the RNC had a sense of humor…

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Dr. No

Fascinating look at the expansion of Medicaid as states have taken advantage of this uncapped entitlement for decades to provide health care to constituencies well beyond the original mandate of the program. This is a crystal ball for both California and the nation as a whole as politicians fantasize about national healthcare without considering the […]

Bust a Deal, Face the Wheel

Sprint lost a pretty significant case involving the early termination fees (ETFs) here in California. A contract is a contract and I’m not inclined to cheer the court action nullifying a valid contract between two parties, however it’s also clear that cell phone companies have profitably abused ETFs (e.g. attaching an ETF to a renewal […]

LA County Proposes Tax Cut With a Tax Hike

What can I say… business as usual in California.

Supervisors voted unanimously last week to place the measure on the Nov. 4 ballot, reducing the tax individuals and businesses pay on phones, natural gas and electricity from 5 percent to 41/2 percent in unincorporated areas, affecting more than 1 million people.

But the […]

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