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Oracle's one made my day. :)

# Posted via email from opportunity__cost

Microsoft, it's your call

There is something that I'd like Microsoft to pay a better attention to.  It's the partnership with third party telemarketers.  

Like Ivy from CSG Openline who's for the second time calls me at 7am to both my home and private cell (from number 888-834-8586) trying to tell me about something from Microsoft.  Certainly she apologies, however, she acknowledges that it's 7am in the morning and she knew that before placing a call.  What the heck she was expecting for?  Am I sleeping and dreaming about somebody from Microsoft to call me and tell me about some crazy shit?  I'm not that lonely.  

So, please, stop it. Once is an accident.  Twice is a negligence.  Third time would be pattern and nobody will enjoy it, take my word for it.

# Posted via email from opportunity__cost

Few weeks in a nutshell

Well, I'm still under impression of Steve Ballmer speech at Stanford. :)

I was trying to pursue almost everyone I know in this area to join me for this seminar, but still went alone, after spending almost two hours in a 20 miles commute (my bad taking 101 south, but I never had any problems before and I'm attending ETL seminars weekly).

Never mind, even that I didn't bring anyone with myself, Memorial Auditorium had more then 1,700 people there. I was lucky enough to have a "student" ticket (students were seated first and in front of the stage, while public attenders were taking free spots and the upper level).

Not much things happening elsewhere. I still keep doing my GMAT sample tests, however, couldn't stay consistent with that, so my studies were a little bit unstructured (easy said). So it didn't work very well, so I'm going to squeeze my daily schedule to get back to pretty stable timing and plan.

I'm a little bit confused about the speaker for the next seminar. One of the Stanford's calendars shows Jeff Hawkins, and another one — Larry Ellisson from Oracle. While both of them worth listening to, Larry is a pretty big person. :) We'll see though.

From the other not, I had a trip back to LA on the last weekend. It was super great, I stayed with my family in the hotel (this one sucked, but was so darn cheap, and I had to be ready f0r it) and we spent the most of my time in Pasadena, with my friends. (Finished a 750ml bottle of french cognac with a friend of mine, but would rather prefer beer for that night - didn't have beer for a while.)

Basically, that's all and I'm going to keep posting more regularly, otherwise, it's hard to refresh the memory later.