HBO (which is owned by Time Warner) is introducing a new option to their On Demand service whereby Time-Warner Cable subscribers can download shows to their computers to watch instead of having to go through the cable system. This is intended to compete with things like NetFlix.

There's just one hitch. Time-Warner Cable is at the same time going to implement bandwidth caps and throttle the connection of anyone downloading large amounts of data (like, say, videos) to a ridiculously low speed.

Right hand, meet left hand. Left hand, right hand. I think you two need to sit down and have a talk, get yourselves on the same page.

Current Mood: amused

A few years ago I worked for WebSideStory (WSSI), a web-analytics company. One of their biggest competitors was Omniture. After I left, WSS changed their name to Visual Sciences (VSCN). This week, they were bought out by Omniture (OMTR). The terms were half a share of Omniture stock and $2.39 cash per share of WSS/VSCN stock.

Overall I'm glad I'm not there. Omniture is a company I'd not want to work for. And running the numbers based on share prices, it represents a significant loss in value of VSCN shares.

Current Mood: working

"It's just a small change, update Delivery Monitor to display right IE7. It can't be that complicated."

Yeah, right. Pull the other one, boss. Doing this will involve my learning:

• Java beyond the introductory exposure I've had to it
• J2EE
• Struts
• Javascript
• JS DOMs: the W3C standard, IE6, IE7, Mozilla, the differences between them and how to play well with all of them
• Java Server Pages
• Jakarta, Tomcat and the other server tech this beast runs on
• IIS and how the above server is bodged into it
• Eclipse, which is what I'll have to use to edit this mess if I can't find something better

Current Mood: aggravated