Category: Tech

That blogged down feeling

I’m not writing much because I’m spending a lot of time looking into behind-the-scenes changes to this site, including a different look, a different video player and, most of all, a much bigger and better bucket to hold all of my multimedia files. Since being forced to make an emergency switch from iPower to Bluehost way back in March — what a terrible weekend that was — I have restored only a small percentage of the sound and movie files that I had posted, out of concern that I will once again use too much of my “unlimited” storage. By using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), my hope is I will be soon able to put the old MP3, FLV and MP4 files back online, but before I can do that there are some technical considerations to work through.

Mistah Magloo returns

Last year I posted an unauthorized YouTube copy of Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, the first of the classic 60’s animated Christmas specials. That copy has been pulled, but this year Hulu has it.

I wanted to watch Magoo on regular TV, and thanks to my friend tastewar, who had an Amazon video-on-demand $5 promotional credit to spare, I got it for free. However, mere minutes later, the same program was available for purchase for only three dollars.

I know there’s a lot of dynamic pricing based on cookie scanning, but I’ve never seen it happen so abruptly. I wonder if I’d not purchased it on first viewing, and gone back to the listing a second time to buy it, would I have seen the lower price, leaving me with a couple of extra bucks to rent something else?

Bloomberg’s game changers

A few days ago, tastewar sent me this link on Cult of Mac of a new interview with John Sculley, the former CEO of Apple, who was the former CEO of PepsiCo that orchestrated the removal of Steve Jobs from Apple. By chance last night I caught a show on Bloomberg TV about Steve Jobs that includes comments from Sculley and the editor of Cult of Mac. Here’s a clip about Jobs returning to the reins at Apple, a couple of CEO’s after Sculley had departed.

The complete documentary, along with programs about Jon Stewart and Mark Zuckerberg, is on the Bloomberg Game Changers web page.