Archive for December, 2018

A Silver Lining in the Stock Market

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 21st, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics

Unemployment is still low, and wages are creeping up. GDP is growing too. By all normal factors the stock market should not be tanking like it is.

However, these are hardly normal times.

Maybe, just maybe, this market correction is a sign that reality is starting to emerge from its …



Bring Back the Blogs

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 20th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We Should Replace Facebook with Personal Websites

I’ve been saying this for a while now.

2012 – Own Your Words
2012 – Social Media Blues
2013 – Blogs Are Not Dead
2014 – Blogs Are Back
2016 – There Are No Christmas Card Friends on facebook
2018 – Social Media Still Sucks

So welcome to the …



Fake Instagram Influencers

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 19th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Way back in the day when blogs ruled the Internet getting admitted to the BlogAds network was kind of a big deal. It meant that you could start to make some cash from ads on your blog, and it meant your blog mattered at some level since advertisers were willing …



Jailbreak Your E-books

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 18th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Amazon would have you believe you can only read e-books on a Kindle if they come from Amazon. They are partly right. You can only directly load Amazon e-books, or unencrypted e-books, directly onto your Kindle. So what if you have a Kindle but want to give Amazon less of …



Christmas Blues

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 17th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

If you put your email in the form here Bluesman Extraordinaire Joe Bonamas will send you a link to download his Christmas record for free.

And since I’m kind of mailing in this blog post (they can’t all be masterpieces) have a picture of Teddy and Santa.

Christmas lights on house

This is entry …



An Update on Blog Updates (or lack thereof)

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • Dec 16th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Figured I better rattle this thing to see if it still works. It’s been an interesting couple of months, but not necessarily interesting in a blogging manner.Once fall arrives, many of our weekends are taken up by college football. Those events do lead …



Tacky Light Tours

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 16th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Christmas lights on house

Chris and Michelle on bus

A while back I wrote that my goal for the future was to do fun things with Michelle and make great memories. Or in those cases where the experience goes sideways, at least get a good story out of it. Well kids, sit back and relax, because it’s story …



Christmas with The Believers

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 15th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This is the best Christmas album you’ve never heard. It’s free. It’s 31 minutes of Christmas jazz perfection. Did I mention it’s free?

This is entry #15 in my attempt at 31 days of blogging for December 2018. I’ve haven’t posted here daily since about 2007, so this should be …



Fun with the command line

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 14th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Image of tweet from DHH

A series of blog posts from Jason Baker on opensource.com has motivated me to try to do more on the command line. I’m already keeping a journal using Nano and just saving the updated text file every few days. I’m not trying to work out any serious issues with …



Nobody should have 90 percent of the book market

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 13th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Image of tweet from DHH

This tweet, from one of the founders of 37 Signals and Basecamp, is in reference to their new book, It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work.

Those sales numbers are obscene, even for a book whose built in audience is probably slightly more likely to buy from Amazon than …