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I didn’t know Starbuck’s had a stalker

Fortune.com – This Just In – Seeing the World on Ten Coffees a Day: “A normal trip works like this: Winter maps out a route and loads his Honda Civic?bought for $4,000 on eBay?with a pile of Starbucks T-shirts, CDs (though the car lacks a CD player or even a tape deck), books, a computer, an egg-crate mattress, and, for protection, a baseball bat. He blazes through the stores (hitting a record 28 in one day on a swing through Portland, Ore., in 1999). At night he tries to find a Wal-Mart parking lot, where he can sleep in the Civic undisturbed. The car has no air conditioning and smells of stale coffee. “

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The New Microsoft Search Engine testing

MSN Search — More Useful Everyday Microsoft is running a test on a new alogoritmic search technology that they are using. For what it’s worth, my own opinion is that Google is still better… but then again Google lists Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection and the new Microsoft test site does not.

It will be interesting to see if either Microsoft or Yahoo! can come up with a better search engine.

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The customer is always right? Not anymore

The customer is always right? Not anymore Apparently Best Buy is taking a more adversarial position with it’s customers going forward. I’d hate to be that guy that… god forbid… only buys during “big sales.” Most of the electronics retailers have gotten worse and worse with regards to return policies. etc. For what it’s worth, I’d recommend Costco for any electronics purchases. I just returned my Sony plasma there after noticing screen burn and that it did not have component video for HDTV and they credited me months later, no questions asked. They were only able to give me the last known price as I did not have a receipt but this is what I call excellent customer service. My guess is that Costco has the product pushing power to demand unconditional returns to the manufacturers. I’m surprised that Best Buy does not.