The National Dinner Tour
A while ago I read about this guy Mark Horowitz who put his number in a ad that showed up in a Crate and Barrel catalog. Well, I came across an article on him today,
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/13/dinner.with.marc.ap/index.html
Looks like he's going to embark on a 'National Dinner Tour' to have dinner with some of the random people who have called him. I think that's totally cool. There are some very interesting people out there and I'm curious to read about the people he meets.
He has started a blog to document this adventure for those who are interested,
http://ineedtostopsoon.blogspot.com
Carly's out...finally!
Ok, so it probably shouldn't surprise those of you who have been following the HP/Compaq saga since it began so many years ago. I figured it was coming sooner or later, I just didn't expect it to come this soon. But I guess this is a good thing for HP since their stock price went up today on the news.
I am kind of sad that the most prominent
female executive is stepping down. Everyone knew that if HP did not live up to all the hype projected from the Compaq merger, Fiorina would be losing her job. It will be interesting to see where the direction of HP goes now that she is out of the picture.
The once mighty computer company now reduced to printers and ink. I think HP should take a hard look at getting out of the computer business. I mean, it's a very tough consumer market out there, with better, faster, cheaper. It's hard to make money if you have to constantly cut prices to keep up with your competition.
Poor, Walter Hewlett. The board should have listened to him. I wonder if his father would be turning in his grave.
The End of Enterprise
I was sad to read this morning on the internet that Star Trek: Enterprise is going off the air on Friday, May 13th. It was such a great Star Trek show. Ok, so maybe it wasn't Next Generation, but c'mon it was one of the better Star Trek shows to come along in a while. The article mentioned that it will be the first time in 18 years that there isn't a Star Trek show on tv. I can't believe that franchise has been on tv for that long. So what are Trekkies everywhere left to watch now?
Hmm...I guess the show wasn't doing too well in that Friday night time slot. I mean, who stays home on a Friday evening to watch Star Trek? Oh well, hopefully they will still show reruns on tv. It's definitely an end to a long era. May we all live long and prosper...
