We watched the Netflix produced Frye Fest documentary over the weekend. I remember the blow up on the social media when guests started posting pictures of the grounds and accommodations as they arrived. I had zero awareness of the event prior to the social media explosion in 2017 when it …
Back in peak blog we had blog specific search engines, and Google tended to rate blogs very highly. For a few years anything I wrote would be on the first page of Google within hours. I once mentioned Britney Spears in a blog post, which combined with the “Disappointing people …
My recent upgrade from Mint 17.3 to Mint 18.3 killed Google Music Manager. It seems to start up in that it shows as running in System Monitor, but there is no GUI. I tried un-installing and reinstalling and the same thing happened. I tried to downgrade to an …
Inspired by this post from Jason Kenny, whose old site is on the blogroll, I pulled my old blogroll from a 2005 version of the blog and pasted it below. I have no idea how many of the links still work. I definitely see a handful that I still visit …
It’s been 2 months since I let me Amazon Prime membership expire. In case you wondering how it’s impacted my life, it hasn’t. Seriously, I’m shocked at how easy it is to not spend money with Amazon. I haven’t spent a dime there since late November.
Trust. What does that word really mean? We use it all the time, both in a business sense and in a personal sense.
You trust that your boss has your back.
You trust that your spouse would never intentionally hurt you.
Professor Glen Urbanfrom MIT breaks trust out into …
Billy Joel The Definitive Biography started out as an autobiography. Joel killed the project at the last minute, however, he allowed his co-writer to redo the book as a biography. They had so much audio recorded of Billy and everybody in his life that it almost reads like an oral …
A while back we got a voice mail from a sales rep at Yellow Freight that was so bad in every possible way that I just had to document it here. This is a lesson on what NOT to do on a cold call.
The voice mail was about 90 …
I’ve got a little over 1000 LinkedIn contacts. A lot of people would claim I have a network. A lot of people would wrong. The vast majority of the contacts are random people I chatted with once for 5 minutes at a conference, and have never spoken to again. Or …
My web host got bought out by a large hosting company that I don’t want to deal with. So I get to migrate to a new host. This is made infinately easier by the fact that this site is just a collection of HTML files and images. Yay for not …
