It’s been a hectic two weeks and I’m glad to be home. My freelance business is starting to get noticed by Singapore ad agencies and although it’s only January, I’ve already met 30% of my annual sales target and turned down a number of jobs. Anyway, here’s a round-up of what’s been happening the last two weeks.
It’s official - Microsoft just offered to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion to compete with Google, sending Yahoo shares up 54% and Google down 10% in pre-market trading. I’d thought of blogging tomorrow after a long hiatus, but simply couldn’t pass up on this huge, huge news.
If you have a bus load of people to send greeting cards to this Christmas, why not use ecards? It’s free, you can customize it with music and backgrounds, send it out immediately without worrying about the card going missing, and it’s environmentally-friendly too.
It’s been exactly 2 months since I upgraded to the new Dell XPS M1330 laptop and Windows Vista. It was a relatively expensive upgrade because apart from the laptop, I had to spend money buying Vista-compatible software. Then there was downtime moving my data and learning how to use Windows Vista. Was it worth the upgrade? Let’s see.
