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I was sent a link to upgrade my Marriott Rewards to Gold Elite Status through a promotion this morning. The promotion was free, but after going to the website I’m not sure if anyone at Marriott uses spell check. See all the typos for “enrol” (instead of “enroll”). I can honestly say Marriott has great service for all the times and countries that I have used them. Not sure what happen to their web team with this typo. Maybe they should shuttle this through a QA team before publishing it to go live.

xavier :: Nov.24.2010 :: Bad Business :: 1 Comment »

Amazon has a Google Adwords ad for HP Slate. When you actually go to the site, there is no HP Slate. It’s actually ads using Google’s Dynamic Keyword Insertion. Amazon, I’d start using negatives in your campaign.

The HP Slate is a tablet PC running Windows 7. The Slate is a competitor to the wildly popular Apple iPad. It is supposed to be running a 1.6GHz Atom Z530 processor.

xavier :: Apr.30.2010 :: Computers :: No Comments »

For all active USC students, you can get free access to Wall Street Journal. Here is how to do it.

1) Go to the USC libraries website.

2) Click on the eJournals tab.

3) You will be given a list of available Wall Street Journals. Click on one of the links to the Wall Street Journal that you want.

4) Then you’ll be given a proxy screen. Login to your USC account and you are good to go.

xavier :: Mar.01.2010 :: Computers :: 2 Comments »

USC’s OCC2 Team Apex has MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) of the following: Xavier – ENTP, Naveen – ENTP, Matt – ENTJ, Yashar – ENTJ, Tim – INTJ, Dmitriy – INTJ / ENTJ. How OCC2 Team Apex will get along is anybody’s guess. From Wikipedia: “The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.” Xavier Dao’s MBTI can be found on this xavierdao.com MBTI post.

xavier :: Sep.04.2009 :: Uncategorized :: 1 Comment »

According the the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test that Xavier Dao took via USC, Xavier’s MBTI is ENTP. More details, update to come.

xavier :: Sep.01.2009 :: rants :: No Comments »