Barnes & Noble Profit Drops

Just saw this article on BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12544612

It describes how Barnes & Noble's profit for the 3 month until end of January 2011 has dropped 25 % compared to previous year.

How on earth can that be a surprise to them?  As I have described in detail here, they have absolutely zero respect for their customers and their so-called support is a joke - nothing less.  They are absolutely clueless.

As described in blog entry I actually wrote an email to Barnes & Noble's director of investor relations Mr. Milevoj, and in that email I described the problems Barnes & Noble's customer's are facing - in great detail.  Well, I never heard back from Mr. Milevoj, but if ever the shit hits the fan so to speak, at least he can't claim that he has been unaware of just how bad things are.

As for me, I have been pissed on so badly that I will never ever spend another cent at their on-line store.  They actually managed to ship a Nook Color to me at the end, and I tell you what - the very first thing I did was to root it and the second thing I did was to install Amazon's Kindle application on it.

Lonely Fire Hydrant

Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur's latest shopping mall, is usually quite packed, so I never noticed what has got to be the weirdest located fire hydrant in the world:





I wonder how many knees that has crushed.

Aught to be Bleeding Obvious

From Glory Beach Resort in Port Dickson:



I wonder why that sign is necessary.

Update

Well, I wrote this blog entry in the evening.  Next morning during breakfast I realised the sign is indeed necessary, albeit completely ignored.  Half the guests were running bread with butter and jam through that toaster and it was quite smelly from burned sugar.