Joshua Smith

Now is that saying something about Twitter/FriendFeed or about Microsoft Dynamics? =) - RAD Moose

RAD: talking about enterprise software isn't as interesting as cat photos. - Robert Scoble

That's not completely true, lolcatz about enterprise software are fun too :) - Daniel W. Crompton

We are going to start using MS Dynamics for our Help Desk system (Nelnet, Inc. NNI) - Susan Beebe

As a former admin/developer, there really isn't much exciting to talk about - Wayne Arthurton

I kind of wish we'd look into it for our help desk. I hate Remedy (it needs a remedy), and we've already got our heads so far stuck into Outlook, Exchange and SharePoint that it might make sense. I'm no expert on these things, though, so I could be totally wrong. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

Define your terms... Dynamic AX? GP? CRM? We use them all and, as a general rule, they are solid. To anyone contemplating CRM, consider publishing the Outlook client via 2008 Terminal Services. It will make your life much simpler. - John Denver

interesting - will take a look - Zee from WeDoCreative

Typing from it now, Zee. It's a very basic demo as they warn, but very quick and light. Perfect for when you need to check something but don't want to launch chunky Firefox or others. - Matt Harwood

There are people who don't keep a browser open at all times? Wow. - Cecily

Interesting, I hope that some of their ideas could improve other browsers. I wonder if they do things in open source way or hide behind closed source (might be that WebKit license requires publishing of modifications; or am I wrong with that?). - Daniel Schildt

Cecily - I would (and usually do) but Firefox, Safari, Webkit, Opera... all creep up to huge memory usage and need to be closed. It frustrates me to the hilt! - Matt Harwood

Any Mac OS X users willing to share the user agent string? - Jake (aka Jawee)

OSX FF3: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1 - Capn' One-Eye ☠

Safari: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1 - Capn' One-Eye ☠

@Capn Longman: I meant the user agent string of Stainless. :) - Jake (aka Jawee)

I love snark. - Chris White

Do layoffs mean you maybe hired more full-timers than you should have? Perhaps the time is right for us all to become consultants. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Don't they need someone to deliver pizzas? - Mona N.

Daniel: TiVo's headcount has remained pretty steady over time. There are a lot of companies more deserving of the 'you hired too quickly and now you pay the price' snark than TiVo is. This is a sad day for TiVo and many of my friends who work there. - Kevin Fox

I ♡ TiVo. We have two, including a Series 1 and an HD. They pioneered this market and should have gotten much bigger than they have. Great product. - Louis Gray

Louis, I feel the same way. There are just a handful of products / services that are in the same class as TiVo in my book. - Mike Doeff

The problem TiVo ran into (and WebTV also) was that the cable/satellite companies control everything. Once they partnered with companies with better UIs, they created internal projects to build their own DVRs, and then ended the partnerships. Getting a box from your provider became the default compared to getting a 3rd party product. It's an unfortunate reality of business that there are strategic issues beyond user experience that determine success. It's the primary reason we haven't seen an Apple DVR. - Chris White

But we have seen an Apple phone, and arguably the situation is pretty similar there. - ⓞnor

@nor, Apple negotiated a great deal with AT&T, as far as wireless contracts go, but they still had to sign a 5-year exclusive. The cable market in particular is different because it's regional, which just becomes a huge convoluted mess. Better luck will probably come from using broadband than trying to navigate the cable twisty passages. - Chris White

@nor: By that analogy, is Android the generic mobile provider's alternative? - Kevin Fox

Tivo made it impossible for me to cancel my account with them a few years back (no option on their website, even though I had added by cc# there, and an intolerably long wait on the phone). My credit card was about to expire, so I figured it wasn't a problem (just a few extra months of billing), but then they continued to charge me even after the card expired (the new card had the same number with a different expiration date). Anyway, I don't feel too sorry for them, and I don't plan to buy from them ever again. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, the credit card companies are funny about these recurring charges. Even after I've changed numbers on the same account for fraud reasons, I've continued to get recurring charges from some companies. Luckily I've never had a problem with TiVo because I bought out the contract and then gave it away to someone. - Chris White

:( - Josh Haley

Just one more useless commodity that needed to bite the dust as soon as home DVR'ing with traditional services was implemented. - tony

I'm kind of surprised at the antipathy I'm seeing here for TiVo. I can understand if their CS department somehow slighted you, but I have not had that experience and I have owned 4 separate TiVo's over the years, some with lifetime subscriptions. Bottom line, the TiVo has the easiest, most powerful platform for scheduling recordings and watching TV that I have ever used. At the very least, I would hope that Scientific Atlanta, etc., would take notes but almost everything else out there is crap (cont'd) - Phil Glockner

Ah, the company that singlehandedly screwed the ad business :) - Patricia

comparatively. TiVo has fought and scraped for so long on a completely slanted playing field, and they are a true underdog. I'm glad that projects like MythTV are starting to mature, and perhaps that is the future of television, but for now I will stick to my Series3. - Phil Glockner

I wasn't snarking, just curious about business models. - Daniel J. Pritchett via fftogo

Phil, my comments weren't antipathy. I thought TiVo did a great job on user experience. What I was saying was they didn't have a strategic business advantage, and that is often what is necessary for long term success. - Chris White

Thanks Daniel and Chris. Chris, I see what you are saying. If you look at TiVo's history of partnering with companies (like DirectTV) and then getting screwed over by their partners, they aren't trying to be elitist in the market. They are willing to make a deal. But the rest of the industry would prefer to stick with the lowest common denominator, or (like Dish) just rip off their technology without apology. - Phil Glockner

He's on here and is one of the recommended initial follows. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

heh. I'd be happy to make it to 50 - Alan Simpson

Also include: Anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One time, they were seriously alternative. Now, I just skip or change the station. - Louis Gray

Achey Breaky Heart. Cotton-eyed Joe by Rednex. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (ok I was 8 when I last liked that one) - Phil Glockner

Sliding but not completely fired: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead. (And yes, I know these are bands and not songs) - Louis Gray

Man, I love all the songs and artists you guys mentioned. Maybe I'm still stuck in the 90s? - Jesse Stay

Yeah, RHCP seem to be rubbish these days. - Richard Bradshaw

Anything by Lamb. I wore out the first two albums and just can't stand to listen any more. - Kevin D. White

I wear my sunglasses at night, most things by Peter Gabriel. Too much play, get bored with it. - dan

Being part of the party scene here, take any new club song release, give me 3 months and I'm sick of it. - Mark Martinez

Louis, I hate you. I now have that as an earworm... la-da-dee-da-da-da, la-da-dee-da-da. ARG! - Cyndy

Most stuff by Sting - Tad, Fool

i used to love Rhianna's Umbrella song - now its turned off as soon as it starts - Stephanie Pickett

any thing by or with Kanye West... Yes he's talented but every time he issues a statement or does an interview I want to slap the taste out of is mouth. Along that line of thinking you can throw "The Puff Daddy" (or what ever the kids are calling him now) to my needs to be slapped up list... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

The eighties. All of it. - Slippy Lane

Almost everything I played when I was on the air. You think YOU'RE tired of the stuff you hear on the radio. After the 50,000th play of "Heartache Tonight," the violent thoughts begin. - Chris Baskind

No such thing! I can go the other direction, but once it's liked, it's liked forever. - Josh Haley

Most songs off the classic greatest hits albums (you know the ones I'm talking about) by the Eagles, Steve Miller, The Doors and Eric Clapton. - Jon Price

I will love Depeche Mode until the day that I die, but if I hear "Enjoy the Scilence" one more time.... - Helen Sventitsky

Finally got rid of the earworm, and thought of one. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" - Cyndy

Louis, usually every sony I like :) I have a bad habit of looping... Like, playing the song 100 - 200 times ...again and again ... eventually the magic wears off and I start hating the song :))) - Alemsah

I'm theorising that great music from 1976 and before has remained great, whilst anything that has been labelled as great since the end of 1976 has, in fact dated. The further we get from 1976, the quicker new so-called great tracks age and cause us annoyance. ;-) - Slippy Lane

Roxanne's Revenge - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

I have to agree that RHCP are pretty crap now. - Mark Wilson

Bryan Adams - "I can't stop loving you" - Bindu Reddy

Katie: my favorite restaurant, Tres Amigos, is on Kelley. - Robert Scoble

Yes yes...good stuff! We walk there when I visit! - Katie

I used to live right by Tres Amigos. Loved that place. Who needed to cook? - todd

I can't get past that new song even twice. ugh.It really is awful. - Josh Haley

Here Here!! - ♣genieyclo♣

sorry matt - it's been posted before - Zee from WeDoCreative

No probs Zee - I'm just amazed how on the ball you are, Sept 17th and you knew? wow :) The link was to CN post though, so will share if that's ok http://www.centernetworks.com/... - Matt Harwood

On the ball...i dunno man, more like too obsessed with other peoples companies :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

Nah Uh! Goldfinger=Shirley Bassey, FTW! :p And I am shielded from the White/Keys travesty for life. :p - Helen Sventitsky

I like die another day - RAPatton

Too bad it couldn't save the movie. I like FYEO much better, musically. - Josh Haley

Both of you will now be shepherded straight to the Jack White/Alicia Keyes Bond theme travesty room...have fun. - Alex Scoble CISSP

i think the White/Keyes is actually pretty damn good. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Josh, for your comment you also receive an all expense paid trip to the Jack White/Alicia Keyes Bond theme travesty room...have fun listening to one of the worst Bond songs ever...One Meelion Times! - Alex Scoble CISSP

Zee will be following Josh in the shackles of shame to the White/Keyes room of torturous hell. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Shirley Bassey owns the throne forever. I honestly liked "Another Way to Die." But then again, I liked "Live and Let Die", too. For some reason I find them similar. - Victor Ganata

Sigh...good thing we built the room with extra capacity. Victor also gets a free trip to the worst Bond theme song ever room...have fun listening to Jack White wail talentlessly for one million times. - Alex Scoble CISSP

White's song was an excellent opening track - ballsiest rock song opening in years - Christopher Galtenberg

Hell, I watched the *original* "Casino Royale." Nothing can faze me. - Victor Ganata

No shame here. Living Daylights as a film sucked balls compared to most of the other films and this theme song is whiny. Nothing against Dalton. His debut was great in License to Kill. But anyway, this is about the music...For Your Eyes Only rules, followed by Live and Let Die, then View to a Kill, Diamonds are Forever. - Josh Haley

Yet another traveler to the theme song room of doom, congratulations to Christopher Galtenberg, you too will be spending a long time listening to Jack White's insipid voicings for far longer than you could possibly tolerate. - Alex Scoble CISSP

For getting your facts wrong (Timothy Dalton debuted in The Living Daylights), your sentence is now two million listens to the Jack White song. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Tom Jones FTW! Hahaha!!! - Victor Ganata

I can handle 2 million listens, sure. You are correct about the chronology, but it doesn't change the fact that Living Daylights sucked on your balls a bit. - Josh Haley

+1 VG! Forgot about Thunderball! :D - Helen Sventitsky

LOL, Josh...you just didn't like Living Daylights cuz it kicked your ass a bit. ;) Aston Martin V8 Vantage FTW! Best Bond car ever. - Alex Scoble CISSP

*biting tongue hard as truce is in place* It's ...um...better than the later Moore films Alex......*must be good* - Abby Martin

ROFL, Abby...this thread is about the theme song and not the movie though. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Alex: you're crazy. Any theme with Shirley Bassey wins over any other theme any day. - Steven Perez

Oh come on! Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey is clearly the best Bond theme song. I also loved the one from Casino Royale by Chris Cornell. - Joey Gibson

Steven Perez is the latest winner to the worst Bond song of all time room for dissing the BEST Bond theme of all time. Enjoy your million song session of pain. And I don't expect this to get old anytime soon. :) It's so fun to banish people to a non-existent room of aural agony. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Joey Gibson, congratulations! Here's your complimentary straight jacket and eye lid holding open thingy for your trip to the million listens of doom room...Jack White will be personally putting the eye drops in your eyes himself by the way. Enjoy! - Alex Scoble CISSP

Alex: repeat after me - IT'S A-HA. Shirley Bassey crooning YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE > "aaaahhh ahhhh ahhhh ahhhhhhhhh the living daylights". - Steven Perez

Steven, you get an additional million song session for naming the wrong singer that performed You Only Live Twice...It was actually performed by Nancy Sinatra. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Alex: you lose 50,000,000,000,000,000 intrawebz bucks. http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/inde... - Steven Perez

You seriously want to go to bat against me on this? Nancy Sinatra performed it originally...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Alex Scoble CISSP

Ah, but I wasn't talking about originals. And the article I linked clearly calls this a cover song. - Steven Perez

http://www.amazon.com/Party-St... - Steven Perez

You get an extra million song session with Jack White for your impudence! The 4 million song session comes with a courtesy laser dongle removal from Auric Technologies if you want to up your score! - Alex Scoble CISSP

And anyway, I'm half deaf, so I would only hear half the horror of Jack Black and Alicia Keys. HA HA! I DEFY YOUR PITIFUL PUNISHMENT, SIR! - Steven Perez

sorry, the best Bond theme is from OHMSS by the master John Barry. key feature... no terrible lyrics. that movie also featured the great Louis Armstrong doing "We Have All the Time in the World." OHMSS is the most under-rated Bond movie ever, despite the Lazenby. probably best book also. - Jon Price

For your continued defiance, not only will you get the free laser castration treatment, but you will now be forced to read a million blog posts by my brother on how China is so much better than we are! - Alex Scoble CISSP