Own your space on the Web, and pay for it. Extra effort, but otherwise you’re a sharecropper. – Tim Bray This times 1000. I’ve owned my own space on the web since 1995. The irony is that 90% of you will see this via Facebook. Facebook is fine as a distribution tool, but don’t let […]
To celebrate our 21st anniversary, we road tripped to Staunton VA for the weekend. Staunton is an unexpectedly hip little town in the Shenandoah Valley. We spent Saturday afternoon wandering around downtown, in and out of art galleries and antique shops. The ice cream shop had Guinness Ice Cream, but my stomach and dairy are […]
21 years, wow. Half-way to 42 years. What was the question? Possibly Related Posts:18th Anniversary Haiku20th Anniversary HaikuAn Anniversary Haiku16th Anniversary HaikuAnniversary Haiku
I finished the Steve Jobs biography last night. Nothing I read will motivate me to change my long standing bias against Apple products. In the Gates vs Jobs battle of very closed systems versus mostly closed systems, I stand with the penguin and open systems. They talk a lot about the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion […]
After two consecutive career related posts – it is time to lighten up around here. And yes, This week #1 was 5 weeks ago. I never actually promised to do this weekly. The week in books: I finished The Hunger Games Trilogy that I started last week. Book 1 was brilliant, book 2 was very […]
Email prospecting can be very effective when it’s executed as a campaign, sending an email every three business days until you get a response. However, prospects are just as good at ignoring emails as you are at sending them. It can take as many as nine emails to get a response. That’s 27 business days […]
Daniel Pink is looking at the issue of commission based pay for salespeople. I looked at this issue back in 2004. Millions of people read Daniel Pink. Dozens read me. Further proof that the universe is not fair I don’t think anything has really changed with regards to anything I wrote back in 2004. I […]
I watched Skateland this afternoon. The reviews on it are pretty horrible, but I thought it was ok. Recent high school grads drinking and smoking while they avoid growing up for one more summer is not the most original plot for a movie, but the 1983 east Texas setting built around the lake, a skating […]
It’s been a while since I updated this subject. The effort pretty much failed. Zoho Mail was ok, but at the end of the day do I trust a programming team in India more than I trust Google? Also, Zoho spam filtering was inconsistent. So I’m back on Gmail, although I’m using Thunderbird as I […]
It’s summer, so it’s time for the don’t tell anybody that you are on vacation because bad guys are reading your Facebook page and will rob you articles. I’ll admit, it seems obvious. However, a quick Google search failed to produce a single confirmed case of an empty house being robbed specifically because the criminal […]
