The Ramblings of a Fosgnilbmareht

I learned about hostile takeovers today over at blog.pmarca.com. It was actually quite interesting to read. I knew that it could involve buying out a controlling amount of stock of the company being taken over but I didn’t know about the other ways like proxy battling. A proxy fight sounds kind of cool until you learn what it means. Then it gets boring. Well not really, since I still found it interesting.

I’ve been following the Microsoft - Yahoo takeover for awhile. I’m not sure why but I think I want them to merge. Combines two of my email accounts right there, even if Google has already merged all of them for me. Google Apps is awesome. Anyway I’m still waiting to see how all of this pans out.

It’s good to learn something new everyday so thank you Marc!

Some people confuse/irritate/anger me when they do some of the things they do. Like picking a web service just because they heard about it. They aren’t sure what it does or what it will do for them but they want to use it because people have talked about it. Then they try to mold it into what they need and want, even if it doesn’t fit. Grrrr!

How about instead of taking something and trying to bend it to their will, they first figure out what their issues/problems/concerns are? Then once those are laid out, a solution will be easier to find. If you know what the problem is, finding a solution to that problem is easier then finding any solution and trying to make it fix a particular problem. When I need to hammer in a nail, you don’t see me reaching for a jackhammer or a forklift do you? No, I find the tool that is used specifically for hammering in nails, a hammer. What a revolutionary idea: use the tool made specifically to solve a specific problem on that problem. I wonder why that hasn’t been thought of before?