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July 3rd, 2007

iPhailure.com run by ITR Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner

In reading some iPhone “news” articles from Google, I saw comments on several different pages about iPhailure.com AKA iphonemobilesolutions.com. All of this site’s comments about the iPhone are negative.

Well, a WHOIS lookup shows iPhailure.com, written by “Jordan Corning,” is owned by his company: “ITR Group, Inc.” The ITR Group web site says on the home page that they are a “management consulting and technology services company;” on their services page they say they offer “mobility solutions” to automate processes and “[b]y extending specific functionality to handheld computing devices like tablets, PDAs, or Smartphones.”

So, this group has a definite interest in Microsoft, they work a lot with portable devices and presumably make money consulting with portable devices, and they are spamming iPhone articles with FUD.

July 3rd, 2007

Finished watching Arrested Development

Lauren and I just finished watching the last episode of Arrested Development, which we’ve been watching these last few weeks from start to finish via Netflix.  Our favorite scenes were definitely the chicken dance scenes, which someone has helpfully collected into a Youtube video.

Gob is a much “bigger” version of Michael Scott in the Office; I don’t know whether I’ll think Michael Scott is as funny anymore.  Gob is like Michael Scott unleashed.

I can’t think of another show that has so many back-references; Monty Python certainly made lots of references within one episode but they didn’t have even an order of magnitude as many cross-episode recurring themes.

July 3rd, 2007
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