Stolen Sidekick on Ebay

I am sure a lot of you have heard about the Stolen Sidekick story by now. If you haven't, you can catch up at Stolen SideKick. The whole story is there and an interesting story it is.

Now, that said, if you have been following the story and have way too much money laying around, you can bid on the very same stolen sidekick. As of this posting the bid was at $2,250.00, for a three hundred dollar item. 

The auction is at Ebay , but beware there have been other people trying to impersonate Evan and his sidekick.

Update 07/04/2006:  Bid has gone to $3150.00 now.......

Update 07/10/2006:  Can you believe it? The Stolen Sidekick went for $3600.00 on Ebay. 

Tampa Bay Code Camp July 15th

If you want to improve your skills unlike this poor soul get to Code Camp we will even supply the food for lunch. Mark your calendars for JULY 15TH 2006, Location: USF (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA) This years Tampa Code Camp is Hot, more speakers,  More Contributers, same great location but were still limited to 350 attendees so don't get left out in the cold register early. Just in case you forgot Code Camp is FREE, and its the only place you can learn from the best out there under one roof. If you program in Visual Studio.NET you need Code Camp. If you use ASP.NET you need code camp. It doesn't matter if your an amateur or one of the coding gods you don't want to miss this event.

The company I work for got me two of these monitors for my desk recently.

Yes, I am one of those programmers that like a dual monitor setup.

Anyway, this lower priced deal was just announced at TigerDirect.com and

seems like an excellent deal at $184.99.

Specifications
	Display Type	TFT LCD
	Viewable Screen Size	19 inches
	Display Area	410.4mm(H) x 256.5mm(V)
	Contrast Ratio	500:1
	Response Time	8 ms
	Horizontal Viewing Angle	150 degrees
	Vertical Viewing Angle	130 degrees
	Maximum Resolution	1440 x 900

I found this over on The Daily WTF.

You can find the original link @ http://thedailywtf.com/forums/permalink/79265/79265/ShowThread.aspx#79265

_____________________________________________________________________
From: {Product Manager}
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:41 AM
To: A----- Selvan
Cc: {Marketing Director}
Subject: Software Version

A-----,
I've noticed that in several places (most prominently, Help-About),
there is the product version, build number, etc. Please have your team
remove this information in our next release.

______________________________________________________________________
From: A----- Selvan
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:03 AM
To: {Product Manager}
Cc: {Marketing Director}
Subject: Re: Software Version

The product version and build number are necessary to identify what
release the customer has. This is also key in our testing and quality
process.

______________________________________________________________________
From: {Product Manager}
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:29 PM
To: A----- Selvan
Cc: {Marketing Director}
Subject: Re: Software Version

Couldn't you determine this information some other way? We don't want
the customers knowing this information and need it removed.

______________________________________________________________________
From: A----- Selvan
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:45 PM
To: {Product Manager}
Cc: {Marketing Director}
Subject: Re: Software Version

We really can't remove it from the product, but, if you'd like, we can
hide it further. However, it is very discrete as is: it only appears in
the About dialog, release notes, and change log. But no matter what, we
will need to keep it accessible for support.

Either way, I don't really understand the request. Almost every software
program ever made has release information like this. Why would you
want it removed?

______________________________________________________________________
From: {Product Manager}
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:04 AM
To: A----- Selvan
Cc: {Marketing Director}
Subject: Re: Software Version

We can't be at all accessible to the client, we'll just have to find
another way.

The reason is simple: when they see  "Version 2.8 (build 448)," they
will think that it took us 28 releases and over *four hundred* builds
to get right.

______________________________________________________________________
From: {Marketing Director}
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:08 AM
To: A----- Selvan, {Product Manager}
Subject: Re: Software Version

This is a good point. This is *not* the information we should be
conveying to our customers. A-----, please make sure it's removed in
the next release.

I was reading a blog over on http://www.devfish.net and found this.

Found another funny video making fun of the Apple commericals on TV right now.

Ok, What if Microsoft created the I-Pod Box?

This Video was made by internal Microsoft Employees as a spoof.