I have a ton of ideas – most of them are just plain nuts.  But when I rea this post from andydrish.com – I got mad.  I had this idea about 1 1/2 years ago – and don;t et me wrong, I know it wasn’t revolutionary at the time…but it’s the point.

Here’s an opportunity that any twenty-something should be checking out… Ramit Sethi is giving away $2500 to a twenty-something with an entrepreneurial idea.   I started reading Ramit about a month ago.   He’s a genuine guy that is truly interested in helping others reach their dreams.

This scholarship is looking for someone with past entreprenurial experiences, a socially innovative idea, and lots of passion.   The winner will get a one time donation of $2500 and Ramit will mentor them as their projects begins to grow.

What I really want is a better way to track my brainstorms, I need to find a guy who knows flash.  I know of a cool wiki plaform which had a killer API and would work perfectly.

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Section: Gaming News, Consoles, PS3

Citing a subpar holiday season and Sony’s Playstation 3 still being the most expensive console, an article in the Wall Street Journal this week indicates there is almost no way the PS3 can catch the Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii in sales. In early results, November 2008 sales of Sony’s controversial console were down 19 percent from the same period in 2007.

During that same time, the Nintendo Wii’s sales doubled and Microsoft Xbox 360 went up 8 percent according to stats supplied by research firm NPD. That makes Sony’s corporate goal of selling 10 million PS3s by March 2009 seem like a long shot. The article also notes that at $399, the PS3 is far and away the most expensive console on the market. During a global recession, that’s not a great distinction to have. It’s hurting Sony’s overall bottom line as the company’s electronics division isn’t as profitable as it used to be. Many analysts think that prevented Sony from slashing the PS3 price for this holiday season.

These numbers may surprise economists but probably not gamers.

Nintendo has ridden its newly harvested crop of casual gamers to the top of the industry with the Nintendo Wii. That console has become a huge hit in spite of a large percentage of shovelware and lack of any big titles released since Mario Kart in the spring. Hardware shortages made the Wii a tough find again this Christmas season, earning it a great deal of publicity in mainstream media. Microsoft Xbox 360 is becoming the console of choice for the hardcore gamer as exclusives like Gears of War 2 propel its holiday sales. The 360 cut its price to $199, earning it a solid hold on second place for the time being.

One of Sony’s major selling points touts the PS3 as an inexpensive Blu-Ray player but, with customers being slow to adopt that technology, regular Blu-Ray players have dipped to $200. There’s still a lot of this console war to go, but Sony does appear to have a climb comparable to the one its game hero Kratos undertook when he climbed Mount Olympus.

Read [Wall Street Journal] Via [Joystiq]

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I was parusing the internets today and got a wild hair to upgrade the ROM on my HTC Touch to the latest software.

After downloading the ROM update, I thought about backing things up and thenmoved on without the backup.  I hooked up the phone and fired up the updater.  11% in – it failed, miserably.

To make a long story short – I was able to update the phone, after an hour long call to tech support.  I was 5 minutes from having to send it in for repair, when the phone tech said, just for fun…let’s try taking out the memory card before we update.  Bingo!

So far – I’ve noticed a couple of things new.  I really like the ability to see my SMS grouped by conversation…that is very nice.  It means the 40 updates from twitter a day groups into one message…very nice.

Will continue to update new things…that is what I have found for now.

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I recently recieved a new laptop for work, it’s a Sony Vaio.  The design is a lot like the mac’s – silver with big-ish trackpad.  The keyboard is recessed with separated, “chiclets” keyboard buttons – they work pretty nice.

I really like the super wide screen 16.4 diagonal with 16:9 aspect ratio.  It’s really more like the size of a 17″ computer, but a bit shorter.  I like it – really wide.

I’m running Vista Ultimate, which seems really nice, it tends to be a bit finiky about the video driver.  It shouldn’t – but I guess this laptop is not really compatible with Vista Ultimate.

Other than that – the blu-ray is very cool.  The fit and finishis probably the best.

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