Posted in Business, Language, Marketing on April 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Why will a business like this work? Because some one does it for you. As one of the best books on Web sites says, Don’t Make Me Think.
Almost every consumer knows, anything related to technology is a pain in the butt. Even if you have the right kind of mind for tech things, there are […]
Posted in Blogs on April 24th, 2006 2 Comments »
It looks like Blogger is having some problems. According to the status page:
Monday, April 24, 2006
All publishing is broken right now. We’re working on it.
Posted by Pete at 9:45 PDT
I have a few blogs on with Blogger and I can tell you - it ain’t working right now. And there are some puzzled and annoyed […]
Posted in Books, Business, General on April 17th, 2006 No Comments »
On the right you can see where I stick that Amazon ad. Every so often I change it up. They’re books I’ve read or am reading that I think are worthwhile. I’m working on the assumption that the few ads I place on here aren’t too annoying. Of course, over the time I’ve had them […]
Posted in Books, Fiction on April 16th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m not sure if it’s me, something in recent culture or a combination of the two, but I’ve recently read a number of books that have revisited the Victorian period, particularly Sherlock Holmes.
Contradictory though this sounds, they’ve been a bit like Victorian literature with a contemporary sensibility.
I’m thinking specifically of four novels (of greater or […]
Posted in Books, Business, Marketing on April 7th, 2006 No Comments »
I haven’t started reading it yet but I’ve picked up The Big Moo, which has the nice line at the top of the cover, “Stop trying to be perfect and start being remarkable.†Well, I can assent to that (though being neither perfect nor remarkable I can’t claim to have any authority on these […]
Posted in Lucinda Williams, Music, Writing on April 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Why is it some people have a facility with words and stories? Why do some people write? Well, surely some are simply naturally inclined that way – something to do with DNA and some of that other stuff I don’t understand.
But I think it must be a bit of both nature and nurture. I’ve been […]
Posted in Business, Marketing on April 1st, 2006 No Comments »
Oh, I like this list. 50 Reasons Why More People Aren’t Using Your Website. Bang on the money. (It’s from Scott Heiferman.)
Of course, as good as the list is the people who need to pay attention to it won’t. They’re off working on PowerPoint presentations. Here’s the top ten:
1. Because they don’t want to generate […]
