At SES San Jose / Silicon Valley 2008 Day 1

I had a flawless trip in from Chicago on Southwest Airlines (with a bunch of people with Dell computers with flaws – mostly dvd and hinge problems) and am here staying with my good friend David Temple during Search Engine Strategies San Jose. It’s a kinda different show this year in both the crowd and [...]

Dell Deleting Message Board Entries About Dell Inspirons

During my recent Dell communications, I performed a Google blog search on – Dell Inspiron 1505 hinges Please focus on the second item: At the time that entry was still in Google blog search, it reached to a dead link. Why is Dell censoring and deleting information about these Inspiron line issues? Do they have [...]

Dell Hires New CFO Brian T. Gladden

Good luck to him, I’d like to think that this might change the current dynamics I’ve recently laid out, but based on his background, I won’t get my hopes up…but oh my this AP story certainly raises questions about why Dell is nickel and diming customers if they can allocate this signing bonus and stock allocation…imagine [...]

Hello Dell “Community” Lurkers

Dell has not fixed the design flaws and workmanship quality issues of my poorly built laptop Insiron 1505. They instead have chosen to play word games like they have with thousands other victims of Dell Inspiron purchases. Just Wednesday night I met two more Dell Inspiron quality victims when attending a local meetup group on a different [...]

Sent My Dell Inspiron 1505 Back to Dell For Repairs

After way too many emails, I sent my unreliable Dell Inspiron laptop back to Dell this week. It has had the following problems: slow boot times, frequent blue screens, unreliablity connecting to the Internet due to a flaky Internet card, weak and broken hinges due to a poor design in fact, the Inspiron line got rid of [...]

ASW08 Looking Back at My New Friends at Affiliate Marketing Summit West

Apologies for the lack of posts during the conference. My Dell Inspiron, as well as several other people’s, could not connect to the Affiliate Summit Internet signals. This is Dell’s fault, not Affiliate Summit’s. On that note, Dell needs to finally take responsibility for the many flawed drivers and poorly designed hinges in these machines [...]

Techcrunch Announces Tech President Poll

Michael Arrington announced his Tech President Presidential Primary Poll. So research the candidates – you know actually spend some time educating yourself on the issues like the national debt – then and only then should you vote here. Analysis: Smart move for Mr. Arrington. This will put focus on not only tech issues, but broaden [...]

FCF07 – My Leather Jacket is Missing

Let’s experiment to see if the power of Social Media can bring my jacket back to me at the Forrester Consumer Forum!!! Yesterday after keynote speaker Robert J. Bach from Microsoft spoke, I lost/had stolen one of my most valuable possessions, a rather expensive size 46 leather jacket that I bought a few years back. [...]

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