Whew, was today ever a busy day. I had a morning docket that was postponed to this afternoon, so I decided to run up to Fry's to get the power supply to fix my server. No problem, just three hours of time, one hour to drive up, one hour to get the part and look to see if there was anything else I needed*, and one hour to drive back. Then I was at court for about 3 hours this afternoon. I got back to the office at about 4:00, had enough time to check my email, then started to work on the server, then had a meeting for the notClark County Republican Club which just ended. So, sorry about not having posted much today. I have tried, when I had time to check a few of the blogs I saw updated and for some reason, I bookmarked a couple stories that I found interesting. Why I have forgotten whose blogs sent me to the stories, I have no idea. I am going to apologize for not attributing them to such bloggers.
The first story has to do with Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, cutting their prices on CDs. The reason I bookmarked the story is because of this:
Starting in October, Universal . . . will trim its prices on most of its CDs to $12.98 . . . .and then the very next sentence in the story says this:
"Our research shows that the sweet spot is to sell our records below $12.98," said Universal Music president Zach Horowitz.I don't know, maybe they are not all that great at math, but $12.98 is not below $12.98. Uh, according to your research, the price should be $12.97, right?
The second story is about the Department of Defense planning to have some events to commemorate** the terrorist attack on 9/11/01. I keep seeing stories about the media has no plans to do so, but that does not mean that America has forgotten. Of course, michele has a great place to see stories that people have contributed about how such event affected them and others called Voices. I applaud her for all of her work on such site and thank her for coming up with such a great idea. This story reminded me that I had not posted anything about such yet.
If I regularly read your blog, and I regularly read all blogs on my blogroll, and you posted a link to either of these stories today, then feel free to take credit for leading me to such story. I am just sorry I have not publicly credited you for doing so.
*I found that I needed this thing called a USB drive, which is a little thing about the size of a pocket knife that you can use to save data on and transfer to another computer. Oh, and I really needed another cheap optical mouse that I hope lasts longer than the last cheap one I bought that ceased to work correctly after about two weeks. I almost needed a DVD burner, but felt I didn't need it that bad at that price.
**Commemorating the event seems weird to me. I want to remember the tragedy, but do I really want to commemorate it? The word and the connotations surrounding the word just seem wrong for some reason.
Posted by notGeorge at September 4, 2003 09:50 PM | TrackBackDVD burners are just becoming mainstream, so you can expect them to get a lot cheaper over the next 12 months. Hold off if you don't need one right now.
(I do need one right now, so I bought one. Now I'm waiting for my blank disks to arrive. Waiting... Waaaaaiting...)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 5, 2003 02:24 AMIsn't it amazing how you can find things you "need" when you went to get something else? (And men wonder why women can spend an entire day shopping...)
Posted by: Susie at September 5, 2003 08:59 AMI guess I should have but those [sarcasm] tags in there. I thought the phrase I almost needed a DVD burner, but felt I didn't need it that bad at that price hinted that need was really not the appropriate word. We actually need very little, we want a lot!
Posted by: Tiger at September 5, 2003 11:40 AM