The Clock is ticking…

I got my topic for the Masters’ Thesis officially fixed now. This means the clock is ticking… deadline is August 13th.

Topic is : “CRM 2.0 – Next Generation Customer Relationship Model”

This means full steam ahead and keep writing for the next 3 Month.

Research is pretty much all done. I just need to get some more data (probably from analyst reports) to fortify the statements made in the thesis. Often difficult to find the right book to cite from – the topic is so transient that some of the data or knowledge is already outdated (although only 2-3 years old).

new wheels

Finally decided on the new wheels and tires last Saturday and ordered right away as I got a good offer from Adam Touring.

The “pit stop” was close to Formula 1  :)    Took me 10 minutes to get in, get the wheels changed, pay and get out. Excellent Service, I’m impressed!

 

The new Barracuda Tzunamee wheels and Pirelli P Zero rosso (255,30,19 and 225,35,19)

The future of mobile devices?

Interesting where the road might go in the future… I like the idea of having a small projector in my mobile :)

Reading the barcode and checking prices is already working. Perfect decision helper in a store.

Checking out Internet Explorer 8

I just installed IE8 on my Vista32 and there are tons of new features to discover. Looks like IE is finally an alternative to Firefox and Chrome again.

The first crash affected only a single tab (like in Chrome) – good threading/process model. Speed seems to be ok as well. Let’s see how long our IT department needs to test the internal websites and app to approve IE8…

Foxmarks for IE installs actually on Windows and keeps bookmarks up-to-date (synced with different machines and browsers). Good Stuff.
Hopefully the tool will stay for people that are just looking for the sync (not the new ‘Xmarks’ social bookmarking features…)

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Windows 7 – a smart move from Microsoft!

After having a first look at Windows 7, I came to believe that Microsoft's strategy is actually pretty clever.

If you as a software company want to shorten the release cycles and increase license revenue, how would you do that? Create a perfect Software w/o any bugs that will be usable for the next 10 years – or better push out a nice looking one that has some flaws and get at least the geeks and OEMs to buy it? And then follow up with a better, faster and more stable one soon after, to sell again to all the early adopters and additionally to all businesses that now see the requirement and value in an upgrade?

Maybe Vista really was only intended to act as an intermediate to sell more copies?! Maybe it was not planned but an ‘accident’ ? Anyway, the differences from Vista to Windows 7 are not too big. But I guess Microsoft will get a lot of revenue out of Windows 7 in 2009 and 2010 (lets assume it will be released this year). Given the economic background, this could be the golden shot and ensure ongoing license sales at MS in a difficult time…

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Getting into writing mode…

I took a week off this week to get a full start with my thesis. I think I did enough research and need to get things done now…  (If I would only have time to read the GTD book :)

Yesterday was hard to get back into my writing style as I didn’t do any assignments for a full year. Guess I was too lazy and the new job took more of my time than I expected… but since today I am confident that I will find back into the flow soon and become productive.

Project Plan still expects the end in May/June so I can do defense in August latest.