FROM: Javamancy, the Weblog
Did anybody get at least one of the 52″ Samsung HDTV’s from the Best Buy [BBY] web site for $9.99 USD before they yanked the link?
It’s ironic that it is perhaps one of the few times where “Best Buy” actually lives up to its name. The question is now: Will Best Buy honor their agreement to savvy customers?
Several people have commented to me about wanting to know why certain people, especially corporate officers and other company officials as well as government folks, visit/use/manipulate Twitter frequently.
I’ve even had a several teenagers and a couple of early-20′ers ask me about Twitter. They’ve told me that they just don’t “get it”… quite a surprising statement (superficially) from these people… until I realized that these “kids” aren’t the technophiles that the mainstream media loves to report about– these are the young’uns that have been bypassed by several generations of current online technology that have arrived in the past few years.
However, I also think it’s surprising since there seem to be so many articles and books floating around about Twitter…
WordPress MU 2.8.4a is now available!
If you just downloaded WPMU 2.8.4 (note the lack of the appender), you may have noticed a problem with the wp-login.php file.
Donncha discusses this “Oops!” on his blog entry about the WPMU 2.8.4 release: http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-2-8-4/
In addition to WordPress 2.8.4 being released today, WordPress MU 2.8.4 is also available, addressing the same security issue.
The Apple Store for Reston, Virginia is finally going to open on August 15!
Steve 1:57 PM on August 13, 2009 Permalink |
Here’s a follow-up on this:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/13/bestbuy.mistake/index.html
Steve 1:58 PM on August 13, 2009 Permalink |
So, unfortunately, it appears that BB will NOT be honoring its stated discounted price, citing that it may have been a mistake.