In the past week or so, it has been independantly noted that I am very bitter and I am cynical beyond repair. Sorry if you were on the receiving end of that. Also, sorry if you encountered Cranky Waider this week, as he was in pretty full effect due to some technical stuff that was going the wrong way down a one-way street, and doing so while ( Read more... )

Feb 20th: Microsoft dings Amazon's S3. Actually, it's more of a puff piece promoting Small Business Server 2008, and the "ding" in question is a passing comment at the start, where the head guy for Small & Medium Business at Microsoft complained that it'd take weeks to upload all his data to the aforementioned online storage service.

Feb 22nd: ( Read more... )

I bought a japanese DVD from Amazon ages ago, and since then I've been getting the Japanese newsletter which I've never bothered unsubbing from because it lets me pretend that some day I'll actually get back to learning japanese. Anyway. Today's missive included this classic:
[-2-]【10％OFF】『ALL　TIME　SUPER　BEST(DELAX　EDITION)』
I can only assume it's ( Read more... )

waider@amazon.com, or thereabouts.

I got the job!

Driving cross-country to get to an interview with five minutes to spare was not exactly how I'd intended approaching this, but hey. I should know by the weekend if I'm hired or not.

The interview was scheduled for 6pm local. The phone rang *once* at 6:36, and hasn't rung again since. I can only assume that confusion is reigning in Seattle, since the previous call was an hour and fifteen minutes late due to unspecified "confusion" on their part. Oh well. I guess I'll just mosey on in to their office on Monday for the face-to- ( Read more... )

I really need to learn more about the Linux kernel before mentioning that I've done kernel-level debugging (I have, but.) Sigh. Not really expecting much more than a PFO from that.

Amazon's free music downloads as RSS Not quite what I'd hoped for, since it doesn't do the enclosures thing (which the author mentions as being some sort of problem with Amazon) but there you go.

Cute: Free music downloads from Amazon. Now, if they'd put it out as an enclosure-containing RSS-feed with, say, links to the artists or something...

From Amazon.com:

Price "Too Low to Display" Explained

The "too low to display" message indicates an additional discount is in effect, and this discount is calculated in the Shopping Cart. You can see this price by clicking the product name and then selecting the Add to Cart button on the product information page. Please be assured that simply ( Read more... )