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Damn; another reason to spend money with Amazon…

“The Frustration-Free Package (on the left) is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, and wire ties. It’s designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging (on the right). Products with Frustration-Free Packaging can frequently be shipped in their own boxes, without an additional shipping box.”

Amazon.com:Help > Shipping & Delivery > Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging FAQs

Changing places…

“Apple today could make a lowball bid to buy Sun Microsystems using just the cash they’ve earned in the last six months.”

Daring Fireball Linked List: We’re All Lucky Scott McNealy Is a Tightwad

That’s interesting but even more of an interesting thought experiment is “what would a Sun owned Apple look like”. I imagine that they would have radically changed the company into something that made terminals to connect to the Sun servers. 

The iPod and it’s need for local data would never have seen the day.

When the client is the expert…

This is great. The client is a network expert, on the other side is a telco that has trouble getting to the root of an issue when it is shared between twenty engineers. 

Add to this that they’ve made their ticketing system visible to their clients and the results are great…

Advogato: Blog for dwmw2

It’s not bad for everyone…

“Up in the Champagne region, they are not panicking since the overall volume fall is expected to reach only three percent this year and exports will slide only about one percent thanks to demand from the east. Rich Russians are still loading up on the very high-end brands such as Cristal and sales to China are expected to rise by about 15 percent this year after 30 percent in 2007.”

Charles Bremner – Times Online – WBLG: The American party is over for champagne