Posted in Creativity, General, TV, Work on July 30th, 2008 No Comments »
When you don’t do something you free yourself up to do something else. This is the essence of Seth’s post today, The TV Dividend. But his post wasn’t the only one I saw today on the same theme.
My brother had a brief post on the value of not driving. He hasn’t driven for twenty-five years. [...]
Posted in Blather, Doodles on July 30th, 2008 No Comments »
From my thin notebook (paper kind):
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Posted in General on July 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Pessimism, like movie car chases, gets old real fast. I’m with Andrew Keen on this one. Unfortunately, people like to bitch and moan (I’m no exception). But I repeat: it gets tedious quickly. And it’s seldom correct. In this case, the end of America rants that Keen refers to, it confuses change with an end. [...]
Posted in Internet, Reading, Technology, Web on July 28th, 2008 No Comments »
I saw the headline, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and I thought, “Geez, I hope not. We’re stupid enough already.”
As evidence, we can look at some of the responses to the article. People seem to have their shorts in knots, on both sides, about our digital world. It’s either the great salvation of human life [...]
Posted in Computers, PC, Technology, User experience, Vista on July 27th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m really glad I took my laptop to the bar today, what with my brain being in neutral and having nothing worthwhile to write or say.
Except for this: I hate the latest MS Office 2008 which appears to have been designed with the sole intention of screwing up everything. Since Vista and the latest editions [...]
Posted in Career, Work on July 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Many people suffer from physical and/or psychological problems because of work. These problems occur because they worry about work.
It’s understandable. No work? No payday. No payday? No home. No recreational drugs. No betting on NFL games.
You can see why people might worry.
It’s important to work in order to keep the daily steamboat of life going [...]
Posted in Books, Kurt Vonnegut, Writers on July 19th, 2008 No Comments »
From his book Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut on books:
At the time of their invention, books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight [...]
Posted in Branding, Business, Language, Marketing on July 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Mark Ramsey at Hear 2.0 has a good post on picking a name. Researchers have four name categories of which the last two are the ones consumers find more desirable yet more often than not we go for the first two, or so I’ve often found. (See his post for more specifics on this.)
Based on [...]
