Howard Greenstein's Website » Random Thought http://howardgreenstein.com/blog The website of Howard Greenstein of the Harbrooke Group Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:53:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Warning…contents may explode http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/08/warningcontents-may-explode.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/08/warningcontents-may-explode.html#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:37:15 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=340 hazard.jpg
It seems not one but both of the batteries for my Powerbook G4 are affected by the Apple Recall. Well, that totally sucks. I can’t recharge the thing without being here to watch it.
Kinda takes the portable out of portable computer, eh?

I wonder how long the replacement batteries will take to get here.

]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/08/warningcontents-may-explode.html/feed 0 Get Well Sawyer http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/06/get-well-sawyer.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/06/get-well-sawyer.html#comments Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:15:17 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=320 My Nephew is in a Rehab hospital trying to recover from a spinal
“incident.” I say incident because they’re not really sure what has
happened, except that he’s unable to move from the hips down for the
last 2 weeks and a half. He’s a bright, fun 12 year old with a great
attitude, and amazingly high spirits.

There is a chance he will recover mobility, and a chance he won’t.
Positive spirits are what will help him have the best chance. I want
to get him photos of people wishing him well from all over the world.
We’re going to print and put them in his room.

I’ve explained this more on a webpage:
http://getwellsawyer.googlepages.com/home
(soon to resolve to www.getwellsawyer.com)

This is not one of those internet rumors, unfortunately. This is my nephew.

I also don’t want it to turn into one of those huge chain mail things,
so please allow this to go only to those friends or blogs that will
help this cause, and direct people to the google page.
This should have a clear ‘expire’ date of August 2006 (and let’s pray
we don’t need photos after that!).

I’ll be answering (and filtering) mail and photos for him at
getwellsawyer at gmail.com.

Thanks in advance for any photos you can send. Good thoughts, prayers,
or whatever you believe in that will help are also appreciated.

Howard Greenstein
New York,
June 3, 2006

]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/06/get-well-sawyer.html/feed 0 Dell Store to open down the street http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/05/dell-store-to-open-down-the-street.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/05/dell-store-to-open-down-the-street.html#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 20:45:52 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=319 It seems Dell has been watching the Apple Stores, and is opening its own retail outlets, both in Texas, and in Nyack at my local Palisades Mall. Palisades is supposedly the 2nd largest mall in America, and it does have a Skating Rink, merry-go-round and Ferris Wheel inside.
It also has an Apple Store, so that’s an interesting gauntelet to throw down for Dell. Interestingly, this Apple store is just 8.9 miles from this other Apple Store in Northern NJ (Via Google Maps).
It will be interesting to see what kind of traction Dell gets.

At least I only have to go to one place to get stuff for both my laptops…

]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/05/dell-store-to-open-down-the-street.html/feed 0 Good Customer Service…ongoing http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/05/good-customer-serviceongoing.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/05/good-customer-serviceongoing.html#comments Tue, 16 May 2006 12:02:42 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=317 I’ve had accounts with Fidelity for years. I had one set of stocks at SSB (no link) that I wanted to transfer out to save on fees charged. Well, the fine Citi/SSB folks charged me $95 for the privlege of taking my stock out and sending it electronically (which takes almost no time and costs almost zero to both firms), to Fidelity.

Fidelity, like a good customer service group ought to do, sucked up the $95 Citi charge. That is a good deal.  Thanks, Fidelity.

]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/05/good-customer-serviceongoing.html/feed 0 2 Geeks, one a rock and roller http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/04/2-geeks-one-a-rock-and-roller.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/04/2-geeks-one-a-rock-and-roller.html#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:09:38 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=304 I got the chance to have lunch with one of my favorite podcasters, Michael Butler,aka the Rock and Roll Geek, and his lovely wife, Athina.
Michael was, in person, the same guy he is on the podcast, talking rock, talking geek stuff, and generally being the kind of person you enjoy having a beer with. Thanks for taking the time to meet, Michael, “I really appreciate it!” :-) Ahthina – it was great to meet you too!

Here’s a picture after lunch in Times Square:

rnrgeek.jpg

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]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/03/testing.html/feed 0 News about Meetup.com http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/03/news-about-meetupcom.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/03/news-about-meetupcom.html#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:06:05 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=297 Meetup.com co-founder and CEO Scott Heiferman said at last night’s NY New Technology Meetup, (for which Scott is the Organizer) today Meetup will receive  an investment from a “top 3” internet firm. No word on Google News or on Meetup’s Blog.

I’m anxious to hear the news, and hopeful that it is great for Scott, whom I’ve known for around 10 years, since the early days of the WWWAC group.

Update: It’s Ebay! Ebay has invested in (but not bought) Meetup! Congrats all!!!!

]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/03/news-about-meetupcom.html/feed 0 Lazy Web Request – Way to have 2 people signed into IM on same PC under same login http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/03/lazy-web-request-way-to-have-2-people-signed-into-im-on-same-pc-under-same-login.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/03/lazy-web-request-way-to-have-2-people-signed-into-im-on-same-pc-under-same-login.html#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:55:42 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=296 If I were to put out a ‘family pc’ or ‘family mac’ (have to be polically correct about PC) and wanted both my wife and I to be able to hear IM buzzes if they happened, is there a way to be signed in on one user login, and have two IM clients going?

For example, have AIM, Y! and MSN logged in  for person A, and GAIM logged in for person B? Will the protocols conflict?

 

]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/03/lazy-web-request-way-to-have-2-people-signed-into-im-on-same-pc-under-same-login.html/feed 0 Userland – thanks for nothing http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/01/userland-thanks-for-nothing.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/01/userland-thanks-for-nothing.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:15:02 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=290 Userland software took down all the old weblogs – no notice. My howardgr.editthispage.com is gone – including my tale of my experience on 9/11.
An email asking for a fee or offering a download of the data would have been nice.
No, I haven’t touched it for a while. Yes, I would have liked to have it. Thanks to Scoble for pointing it out.
Actually, it’s not nothing – in that they have been hosting this data for a while. A little notice goes a long way, though.

]]> http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/01/userland-thanks-for-nothing.html/feed 0 From the TNL Home office… http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2005/12/from-the-tnl-home-office.html http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2005/12/from-the-tnl-home-office.html#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:19:16 +0000 Howard http://howardgreenstein.com/wordpress/?p=279 Tristan Louis, from the home office in New York, New York, with the (very intelligent and not-at-all-Dave-Letterman-like) Signs of a Bubble.
Required reading for the intelligent, post-dot-com-bubble investor, job-seeker, trend watcher.

Example:

At the bottom of the list is the belief that the poster child for a particular bubble can do no wrong. This is generally a feeling that starts within a company, as it starts believing its own slogans and press. As the bubble starts to inflate, the poster child traditionally starts receiving more coverage from the mainstream media and being presented as a new type of company that can do no wrong.

Hmmm, now who could he be talking about? Let’s Google it and find out…

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