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Saturday, January 20, 2007

The flying part of travel

The flying part of travel is not fun. My plane is late getting to Houston & there is nothing I can do but wait. I just want to get home.

Labels: flight, travel

- Rich, 7:18 AM |

Thursday, January 18, 2007

What Makes Up The Web

I have been holding onto this story for a while. I found this to be funny. Study finds Web isn't teeming with sex. It still does not say what is making money on the on the web. There are lots of people like me not making any money using the web and producing lots of pages.

Labels: mercnews, porn, web

- Rich, 9:08 PM |

Town Square

Town Square
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

I am traveling for work. I am visiting this small town Andalusia, Alabama. The town is really small. I was told that restaurants are not often open on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday night. Those nights are so slow, it is not worth enough money for the restaurants to be open.

The town is the county seat. After a couple of conversations with people I am working with, they told me about the town square. I was driving around today looking for the town square. It was only 7 PM and everything was closed down. Almost every store on the square had a tenant. They just close early.

I ask the people I am working with what they do for fun. The answer falls into three categories. 1) Go 90 miles away and so something fun, 2) Stay home, and 3) Nothing. I am told you are either the type of person who likes this kind of area or you are not. The people who are not end up leaving.

Whenever I go anywhere I ask myself if I could live there. I can say that I could not live in Andalusia, Alabama. The houses are nice, but I need to be able to do things. I am a bit of a home body, but you have to be an extreme homebody to live here.

I will be happy to get back to San Jose.

Labels: Alabama, flickrpost, travel, work

- Rich, 8:30 PM |

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Travel advice

My friend Andrew Thomas grew up in Alabama. I asked him for advice for traveling to Alabama. Here was his advice.

Be friendly and polite. Don't talk religion or politics. Take your pace down a few notches.

Also Be apologetic about your Northern roots.

Tell people your grandmother is from Alabama. (which is true)

His advice has seemed to work.

Labels: advice, Alabama, travel, work

- Rich, 8:33 PM |

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Reliving the betamax days

The Hi-Def DVD format fight is going on right now, but few people out side of the consumer electronic industry have really noticed so far. I have not heard a huge cry from consumers for this to be solved. I read that DVD sales are starting to lag, but it is hard to say if there is any connection to the state of HD DVDs.

I have to think that Sony might be making a bad choice with No Adult Content on Blu-Ray. This is one of the reasons that Betamax failed. Porn has always been known for moving Technology forward. If Sony does not want adult content on Blu-Ray that opens the door for HD DVD. You think all those guys who spend all their time playing

The problem is that DVDs and future DVDs might already be dead. Everyone is working on the download solution for movies. Will people want DVDs at all. The problem with HD content is that Americans have slow broadband connections and HD content is so big. On top of that, it is cheaper to put it on disk and ship it rather than to let someone download it. Maybe none of this important.

The Format war might not be solved. LG is offering a player that will play both HD DVD and Blu-Ray. Warner Brothers is going to sell movies on a disk that will be both HD DVD and Blu-Ray. I have an HDTV, but I do not plan on buying an HD DVD player any time soon. This Christmas was called the Christmas where HDTV broke though. Lets see if it true and how it impacts DVDs.

Labels: Blu-Ray, DVD, HD DVD, LG, Warner Brothers

- Rich, 4:33 PM |

Monday, January 15, 2007

The Mayfly Project 2006

The Mayfly Project 2006
Originally uploaded by Kristin.

Great New Years
Became Manager
Portland
Got new camera
Break Up
Lost Boss
San Diego
Wrote novel
Trying again
Stood up in the end

Labels: 2006, bestof2006, mayfly project

- Rich, 10:25 PM |

The Name Game

I am happy to say that I am the first person to come up in a Google Search of "Rich Thomas." I happen to be in a place where everyone know the other Rich Thomas. That is one of the problems of having a common name.

Labels: google, name

- Rich, 9:21 PM |

Test Post

Lets see if moblogging works well.

Labels: moblogging, test

- Rich, 8:32 PM |

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