The Desperate and Delusional Award of the Week goes to:
- Don Reisinger
- Paul Thurrott
- Rob Enderle
Why would anyone want to take these three people seriously?
Circuit City Website is Closed
Starting January 16th, 2009 Circuit City website is closed. The site no longer displays any products and accepts any online orders.
Circuit City is closing all of its 567 stores across the United States. Closing sales will start as early as Saturday January 17th, 2009.
Selections of F.A.Q. regarding Circuit City Closures:
- Circuit City is shutting down operations in the United States. Circuit City will still operate in Canada through The Source.
- Circuit City Gift Cards can be redeemed throughout the liquidation sales.
- Circuit City’s extended warranties are backed by third party independent companies and are not affected by the closures.
Recap: Steve Jobs, Circuit City, Songsmith, and Palm Pre
There are a lot of news items that I have not writte about yet for the past 7 days. It’s time for me to catch up with them.
Steve Jobs is going on a medical leave of absence.
January 14th, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:…….
In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
Circuit City is going out of business after filing Chapter 11. Download the PDF’s below:
Microsoft Songsmith, and the ad features MacBook Pro.
Songsmith is for Windows OS only, Mac users can cry in the corner; or will they?
It is so great that it produced music to accompany David Lee Roth.
Palm Pre, the would be savior of Palm.
Palm is back with a new OS and new SmartPhone in the form of Palm Pre. It looks promising so far, and some anti-Apple movement crowd are hoping that Palm Pre would be the iPhone killer.
Carlos Alazraqui to Guest at USC Second Nature Improv
Carlos Alazraqui is scheduled to be the guest at USC’s Second Nature Improv on January 21st, 2008. The show starts at 11PM and admission is free.
For more information, head to 2nimprov.com.
MacWorld San Francisco 2009 Keynote is Available
Video of Phil Schiller’s Keynote is now available. Watch it here.
Also available in Apple Keynotes Podcast, iTunes required.
Watch Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, unveil Apple’s latest innovations at Macworld 2009. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.
QuickTime 7 is required.
MacRumorsLive.com was Hacked During Live Keynote Coverage
UPDATES:
MacRumors: “MacRumorsLive Hacked”
Tuesday January 06, 2009 01:29 PM EST
Written by arn
Our MacRumorsLive keynote coverage was hacked today, inserting inappropriate content into the text and photo feeds. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to restore our services. The hack appears to be limited to the MacRumorsLive servers so forum accounts should be safe.We’ll continue Macworld Expo coverage on an ongoing basis this week, and will report on Apple’s announcements shortly.
Reddit shows how MacRumorsLive got hacked.
m.atthew.net has made a statement: “I did not hack macrumors”
Another (long) Screenshot (found through Digg)
During Phil Schiller’s MacWorld San Francisco 2009, MacRumorsLive.com was hacked. MacRumors shut down the page minutes after. A line that said “Steve Jobs just died” was inserted into the feed. One message also carried 4CHAN.ORG badge.
Check the screenshot out.
The Sensitive Side of Darren Carter
I went to see Darren Carter on Saturday Night at Laugh Factory in Long Beach. After the show we headed to Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza for what else? Pizza. We were talking about number of topics and one of them was about the passing of John Travolta’s son. I knew that Darren worked with John Travolta in “Be Cool” movie.
I just read a nice post on Darren’s WordPress Blog about John Travolta as a father and a person. Forget about ideology and personal belief for a moment, it is always a tragedy for parents to lose any of their children. Well said, Darren.