Archive for February, 2008
February 29th, 2008 at 3:50 pm by Ari Shohat
Glimpse Into the Future of Online Music Entertainment
| Music, Streaming, Videos, Web | 1 Comment |
February 27th, 2008 at 6:25 pm by Ari Shohat
Headline: Starbucks Promises Customers Perfection
| General Rants, Marketing | 1 Comment |
If you read this blog for a while now you already know my occasional rants about Starbucks.
On more than one occasion I have stated that my experience there became totally random, and for the price they charge half the time my order is not made right. That’s the reason they lost me as a customer [...]
February 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pm by Ari Shohat
Investors, Loans and Plans… Oh My
| Business, Life Happens, P2A, Web | 1 Comment |
I’ve been neglecting the blog lately, definitely not a good thing.
The last few weeks I have been consumed by planning for the near future, while trying to catch up on the bureaucracy of doing business.
I don’t have a person to help our with clerical or finances at the moment, which means maybe a third of [...]
February 19th, 2008 at 2:22 pm by Ari Shohat
Umair Haque on “The Fourth Horseman of the Macropocalypse”
| Business, Economy | 1 Comment |
As Wall St banks confront another string of write-downs, I thought this post from Umair was a good commentary. Here’s a snippet:
In Zimbabwe, it looks like this: a cadre of government thugs, eating what little fat is left on the bones of the country’s decaying agricultural and industrial asset base.
In the UK and US, it [...]
February 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am by Ari Shohat
0% Interest Loan from Citibank
| Business, General Rants | 1 Comment |
What’s Citibank good for these days? Our office is few blocks from Wall St, the financial capital of the world, and Citibank closes its branches at 4pm! I am absolutely amazed at the audacity.
I still like to do business late, and deposit things later. How can you close at 4pm? Just over that issue I [...]
February 12th, 2008 at 11:00 am by Ari Shohat
Finally Got Paid For That Domain…
| Domaining, Web | 0 Comments |
Couple of weeks ago I posted about my domaining experiments, and mentioned that I finally got a sale. Well the money has arrived just fine and now I can post about it.
The domain that was sold was embria dot net - no idea what it really means, I had a weird hunch when I bought [...]
February 11th, 2008 at 10:07 am by Ari Shohat
Watch Your Step When Playing Tennis Here…
| General Rants | 3 Comments |
I sure am glad I didn’t have to take a test like this while in 8th grade
