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Night by Elie Wiesel

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 6th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

If you are younger than me you may have read this in school. I didn’t read it until last night. It’s a slim volume – only 110 pages. But it’s enough. When the author was 15 he was rounded up in Hungary and shipped off to Auschwitz.

These 110 pages are …



The Holy Shit Moment

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 5th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Book Cover

I’m not looking to make any major life changes. I mostly bought the book because Fell is entertaining, and since he has been entertaining me for free on his Facebook page for a couple of years, I figured buying his book was the least I could do.

The book is …



Frye

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 4th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Frye promo poster

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 …



Blog Discovery is Broken

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 2nd, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 …



Getting Google Music Manager Working on Linux

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 30th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 …



The Blogroll is back

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 29th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 …



60 Days Without Amazon

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 26th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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.

  • Health & wellness type stuff …


3 Aspects of Trust

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 23rd, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 17th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Bok cover - Billy Joel Biography

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 …



The Yellow Freight Sales Call

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 16th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 …