I'm guilty of having made comments like this before, and I just saw another one today:

When we launched XYZ we started day 1 with a profitable, monetizable business model.

Profitability is not making $200/month, enough to cover your hosting costs. While generating revenue is exciting, you are not profitable if you are not getting paid a financially sustainable amount of money for your time. Here's a good definition of profitability from Investopedia:

What Does Profit Mean? A financial benefit that is realized when the amount of revenue gained from a business activity exceeds the expenses, costs and taxes needed to sustain the activity.

The ultimate purpose of any business is to generate revenue, and having a business model is much more necessary today than it was two years ago -- so bringing in any kind of revenue is exciting, and a notable accomplishment.

But saying that the business is profitable without accounting for the cost of your time is a bit of an amateur mistake, one I've made several times in the past.

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Holiday Tunes 12/24/2008
 

Just recently discovered an interesting compilation called "Christmas Remixed" and "Christmas Remixed 2". There are some pretty sweet remixes of your usual holiday tracks, but here are a few songs I thought were particularly well done:

Bing Crosby - Happy Holiday (Beef Wellington Remix)

Bing Crosby - White Christmas (Kaskade Remix)

Duke Ellington - Jingle Bells (Robbie Hardkiss Remix)

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Firefox on Linux is now effectively broken. Since installing the new Flash 10 player for Linux (which will become very necessary for everyone, very fast, due to some of the major changes Adobe has introduced that require quite a few apps, such as our Flash uploader, to be built for Flash 10), my browser now crashes every 10 page views or less.

I am fully up to date with the most recent Firefox version, the most recent Flash version, and have tried almost every trick out there to get this to work (http://google.com/search?q=flash%2010%20linux%20crash lists a few). Nothing works. My web browser is now effectively broken.

By the looks of it, this is also a fairly widespread problem. Whoever decided this software was release quality is a complete asshole, as it now looks like I'm left between choosing to uninstall Flash completely, or suffer constant crashes.

Has anybody else out there found a solution that works? I'm using FC9, Firefox 3.0.3, and flash-plugin-10.0.15.3.

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