Archive for December, 2006
Signs of the apocalypse
If you have the stomach for it, this 22 minute recording= of a phone call with Verizon Wireless customer service is just staggering. Throughout the entire experience, noone — not supervisors, not account reps, not even the supervisor’s supervisor — are capable of recognizing that .002 dollars is different than .002 cents. That this guy […]
2 Shot at Quarles & Brady?
Our office is across the street from 500 W. Madison, which houses, among other tenants, Quarles & Brady. The Tribune is reporting on the shooting (the building is also the Metra station); according to the DHL delivery guy who was just in our office delivering a package, he was on the 36th floor (Q&B is […]
Barack Hussein Obama
For those that missed this wonderful nugget on MSNBC last week, go check it out. A GOP strategist thinks he’ll score some points by race-baiting. “Count me down as somebody that underestimates Barack Hussein Obama,” Rogers said.
Good Lord.
My recommended come-back? “Sure, my middle name is Hussein. But to be honest, it’s not like Saddam’s still […]
Congrats to Jake and Natalie
Jake will share the details (and oh boy, what a backstory this one has), but for the time being: Congrats! Here’s to a long and happy life together.
Google Trends and Barack Obama
Over at his blog, Erik Heels suggests that based on current data, Hillary Clinton will beat Barack Obama. Only he gets it slightly wrong: he compared Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. Here’s the chart Erik came up with:
Barak Obama (blue) vs. Hillary Clinton (red)
I thought this was a bit odd: why weren’t there any news […]
Dow Jones, our latest publisher
As I hinted last week, we’d have another couple big announcements coming shortly. The first of those is that Dow Jones is now using FeedBurner to manage all of their feeds. Not only is it a terrific validation of what we’ve been up to, it’s exciting to be a part of such a forward thinking […]
