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Sheesh, this Halloween was dead (no pun intended)! Eileen passed out candy to about four trick-or-treaters. I passed out candy to about six. That is it. Wow! Next year, we will not get so much candy to pass out as it seems that kids really don’t come around that [...]

I picked up a Motorola Razr today from Fry’s today (damn you Fry brothers for setting up such a tech-happy shop!). It’s a nice phone, much smaller than my Treo 600. The aluminum casing matches quite nicely with my Apple Powerbook 15″. The UI is typical Motorola UI — in other [...]

BusinessWeek has released their 2005 Global Brands survey. Check it out here. My wife saw this in the paper the other day and point me to the info.
The top ten growing brands:

Ebay
HSBC
Samsung
Apple
UBS
Yahoo!
Dell
Nissan
Audi
Motorola

The top five losing brands:

Sony
Morgan Stanley
VW
Levis
HP

Interesting to see the who’s who of businesses. The actual list from BusinessWeek [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger may have been an actor in a previous life, but we all have to remember: He was not that great of an actor. Now that he’s living the life of the Governor of California and trying his acting skills in that office, we’re starting to see: He is not [...]

Eileen and I carved pumpkins today for Halloween! Check out the pictures!

There are commercials, then there are special commercials (much like Apple’s 1984). Sony has just put out a special commerical for their Bravia line of LCD TVs. You can see the “Bouncy Ball” commercial HERE. The commercial was shot this last summer in San Francisco using 200,000+ colorful bouncy balls. [...]

Gizmodo has an article speculating on the imminent release of headsets for PSPs — which they think will coincide with the November 8th launch of the PSP version of SOCOM. I am not that much interested in the fact that SOCOM is coming out (I like the game, but not that much). [...]