by Bill on August 3, 2010
I’ve encountered a number of clients who have been paying for domain registration and hosting with no idea of what a competitive price would be. As a result, many of them have been paying twice as much as they should. To make things worse, they were receiving less than half of what they should have [...]
“All life we work but work is a bore. If life’s for living, what’s living for?” – The Kinks – On a whim, I did a quick Google search for, “What is living for?” It didn’t have an answer. (It did, however, provide me a link to Wikipedia and an entry on sustainable living.) I [...]
My view of links is pretty simple: they are a great big pain in the butt. When I post something, they are an “after the fact” matter. I mean by this that I write something, then go back over it and figure out where I should have links and put them in. As big a [...]
There are few things as frightening for the creator of something than, “What happens next?” This is because the next thing had better be good – at least as good as what preceded it. That’s what the audience expects. That’s why they ask, “What happens next?” A great recent example of this in action is [...]
by Bill on April 26, 2010
We have a crazed and almost bipolar relationship with very big technology companies. We hate them as we love them; love them as we hate them. They seduce us, we know we’re being seduced, but we love the seduction even as we think, “Oh, this is going to end very badly.” Only human beings could [...]
by Bill on January 26, 2010
What if bits and bytes smelled? And what if they smelled bad? And what if they had the capacity to carry viruses – no, not the email kind but biological n’er-do-wells? Somewhere out in that vast and ill-defined world we call “digital space,” there’s a lot – and I mean a lot – of refuse. [...]
Road construction on Writelife
by Bill on February 14, 2010
As I mentioned yesterday Writelife will, “… be a bit of a schmozzle for the next day or two.” I’m experimenting with a few things, such as: trying Disqus for comments — just to see if there is any value in it setting up Google for site search — because I’m not thrilled with the [...]
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