March 2006

Instead of selling your kicks on eBay, “help kids get active” by recycling your old athletic kicks and you could even save on a new pair of shoes at Niketown. Details from Thursday’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin are in the pic. Just a note that there wasn’t anything regarding this campaign on the site that [...]

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Administrative Professionals Day is coming up on April 26. Do you know what you’re getting your hardworking, under-appreciated admin staff? How about some pampering at Elements Hawaii Spa and Salon?
Elements Hawaii is offering special Administrative Professional packages along with their usual menu of relaxing facial massages, manicures, pedicures, haircuts, and gift baskets. [...]

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With LSU making the NCAA Final Four, I got to remembering how a young Shaquille O’Neal and Stanley Roberts ruled the post for LSU some years back. Then I was thinking, did Shaq graduate from college? How about Kobe? I know Kobe went to the NBA right out of high school, but [...]

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In a world where there are many of fools who don’t know how to turn the volume down if it’s too loud, Apple has created new volume controls and issued a software update for its recent iPod models which allows users to set how loud their digital music players can go.
Parents also can use [...]

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Wired has collected the best quotes from Steve Jobs over the years and here are some interesting ones:
I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn’t compete with six people in [...]

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A little while ago, I learned about another news aggregator, Endo. As a NetNewsWire Lite user, I gave it a shot to see how it compared. Unfortunately, I could never get used to Endo and kept falling back to using NetNewsWire.
Something about Endo’s interface I just couldn’t overcome. With the two-pane layout [...]

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I know I shouldn’t be posting this since it’s not Nike but here goes:
Adidas is giving 10% off adidas Originals apparel over $60 using coupon code 0306ORTEN (Exp 4/3)

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BusinessWeek Online has their list of business Best Performers for 2006. Number one on the list is a tiny little company called Apple who sold 42 million iPods since it was introduced five years ago, 32 million of which were sold in 2005(!).
Let’s hope for some surprise announcements on Apple’s 30th birthday this week.
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A friend found this and I thought it was hilarious!

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Was shopping at our local Safeway and saw a very weird placement of products. The magazine aisle is next to the bakery section (which isn’t so weird), and I went to check out the latest issue of Slam magazine and also to see if they had Chocodiles in stock (don’t ask, too much Food [...]

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Hard to believe, but Mac OS X is now 5 years old. Version 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001, and four major revisions later, Mac OS X is at 10.4.
Next up is Apple’s 30th birthday on April 1. Surprise announcements??
Technorati Tags: Apple, Macintosh

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