Hey everybody The site now powered by Habari v0.5 and Dorset Nagas! Yaaay! How Frelling Boring! I love blogging. I love Habari. But I have to admit it is very slow coming. It’s been two years now, and we are only half way to a finished product. Granted Wine has been in development for what… 15 years? Only 2 months ago did they finally reach v1.0.

So no, Habari may not be the slowest developing software. But it’s damn close! And you know what? I think is pretty damn close to ready. Just a little testing an polishing for a couple of months, and they could skip to v1.0.

Seriously v0.5 is great. It’s a massive improvement from v0.4.1. Congrats guys, keep it up.

Also I may have a good photography job lined up for tomorrow. I’ll be back after, with all the details.

5+ years ago I worked at by local Best Buy. For about 6 months. I was not a good fit. There are two ways of selling. Mindsets really. One is make sure the customer leaves the store with everything they need to. The second is Make sure the customer leaves the store with everything we need them to.

Every store on the planet is selling things to make money. The most efficacy way to make money is to make sure people buy the items that make you the most money. Now in the case of Best Buy, that is not CDs, DVDs, TV's, or Computers. The highest profit margins come from service plans and subscriptions. That's followed closely by cables, batteries, and other peripherals.

During my short time there, there were many questionable things going on. Nothing serous, just questionable. My manager routinely lied to sell extra batteries telling people that the battery included with the camera would only last an hour or so. We were also pushed to use our own ID's to sign up for credit cards. The worst of which was informing people of the false procedure of signing up everyone who bought a computer for internet service, telling them that if they don't want it, they can just cancel it when they get home.

Yes I absolutely believe that other stores were much worse. Be careful out there people.

South Carolina has never been the brightest of states. We all know that. Their latest legislative endeavor tries to verify that a minor signing up for an account on Myspace has parents that know about it.

Nobody can effectively legislate the internet. Because it crosses all boarders. If you make a law against something within yours, all those doing it, must simply move. They can do whatever you may call bad, from 9000 miles away, and legally there is nothing you can do to stop them.

This kind of stuff fries my brain.