Michael’s Two Cents

In this New York Times article it’s announced that Yahoo is laying off 1000 people. It seems not even Yahoo is immune to the crashing economy. The layoffs are being blamed on a sharp decline in Q4 2007 profits and predictions of a challenging 2008.
This follows a time when tech jobs were plentiful. It seems [...]

Apple’s new laptop has gotten some pretty though reviews since it’s announcement. The processor is slow, there’s no built-in super drive, the battery can’t be replaced by users, the ports are a bit hard to access, and the hard drive is slower than most laptops. So in other words it’s not for everyone.
But it is [...]

Last summer, while on my long commute from Sacramento to San Francisco (which I’m happy to say I don’t do anymore), the idea of writing a book popped into my head. Ironically the topic has nothing to do with what you might expect, like web design, technology, etc.
The book is about freedom. WTF Mike? Yeah [...]

After much internal debate I decided to go green with CARazed.com. CARazed is a blog and free classifieds website I launched a few years ago. It never really took off mostly due to my lack of focus. Looking back I’m convinced that had I stuck with CARazed and not veered off onto so many different [...]