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Misha says: As of today, I have been alive for 7,785 days. Assuming I take 1.2 poops a day, that’s 9,342 poops taken. Assuming each poo is about 5″ in total length, that’s 46,710 inches of poop that has come out of me. Or 3,892.5 feet. Or about a three-quarters of a mile. Or, to [...]

I’ve been researching some material for a segment of a class I’m giving tomorrow at work. The audience is a great audience, and I’m aiming at having an interactive talking session. I’m speaking to 25 or so employees that are primarily print advertising sales people about managing their customer’s expectations about online advertising. I’ve found [...]

Ugh… oh how a thief must feel after being caught stealing someone’s code. Adam Kalsey has publicly shamed a thief. And it’s really sort of sad that someone would steal Kalsey’s code, and then put it online to claim as their own. Don’t people realize that there’s just about nothing on the internet that Google [...]

I’m trying to learn more about hacks for Movable Type. What I really, really want is a way to send out notifications immediately after a posting is made (well perhaps time delayed by 5 minutes) but auto-notify doesn’t seem to be something that anyone has built yet. Ideally, I’d like to see a ‘post-by-post’ notify [...]

Gizmodo reports that Spymac is reporting that Apple’s inching towards releasing a tablet soon (that will be announced 6 months before it’s shipping, if Steve holds true to form at the next MacWorld). Hmmm… Spymac’s batting average anyone? Something you can bank on is a new Safari beta coming out in the coming couple of [...]

I just read this article over on Ratcliffe’s Blog, where Ratcliffe expands on Doc’s ideas about an information mediary that has the power to tell company’s that you don’t want their junk mail, spam, or phone calls, but then also gets you the information you do want, when you want it. Sounds like a very [...]

It’s funny. I’ve learned over the past few years to do almost all of my editing and writing in BBEdit, this this post: BBEdit Shovelware pretty much sums up my thoughts too (though I’ve paid for the full version of NNW)

Today we visited the central Austin location of the Bicycle Sport Shop. We looked at a few bikes, but mainly just got a feel for the price of bikes and talked to a sales rep about what we should really be looking at buying. We haven’t really ridden bikes since we were in grade-school, so [...]

How are your picks for the NCAA Tournament? I’ve picked 39 of the games as of Friday… I’m actually enjoying this tournament this year… I’m an Aggie, but can’t help but root for the Longhorns this time around (besides Basketball really doesn’t count as a sport in most parts of Texas). I’m leading the office [...]

Jimmy Gutterman’s written a great short article on “Managing Through the War“. The meat of the article is these three statements: Don’t dismiss worries. Some fears are irrational, but that doesn’t mean the people who express them should be treated as irrational. Some workers are immature, others may be confusing economic fears with war fears. [...]

I just stumbled across Blogshares, a fictional stock market type game where people can invest in weblogs with play money. (its nicely done might I add) This game looks like a worthwhile diversion. inluminent/weblog is worth $1,139 and the per-share price is $1.21. I think I’m going to sign up and play, as hopefully it’ll [...]

So, now that the iBook is back in fully-functional form, I’m amazed at how much I missed without it. (It’s so much easier to gather more information with an RSS reader than by surfing websites with a browser.) I just caught up on some Anti-Aliasing articles (1, 2, and 3) from Daring Fireball. Very good [...]

Two weeks ago, my laptop’s LCD screen went blank. I played with it for about 24 hours, trying different things to get it to work, eventually giving up and calling Apple’s warranty department. I spoke with them for about 15 minutes, describing the problems, and they assigned me a dispatch number and sent out a [...]

This site posts links to free MP3s as well as a few that are for sale… great stuff. [via dasme]

Jeremy rants about the fact that car dealerships should have Wireless networks in them in this post. I didn’t blog my thoughts on this subject back when I last had my Jetta worked on, but I agree… Car dealerships should have Wifi for customers waiting in the service area… they’d likely be able to cut [...]

Alexis TrÈpanier Just click the link, and sit back and enjoy… fantastic resume eh?

Olivier asks a great question: How comes news.google.com hasn’t created a special ‘news on Iraq’ section on it’s own?

Wow. This list of sales and marketing articles from SMEI is a great primer for sales people in the advertising world… Great ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of different media, and much much more.

Note to self: If you ever decide to offer a large download to the public, check how your ISP charges you for bandwidth. This note inspired by Glenn’s ongoing discovery of how much giving away a book in PDF format will cost him… Ugh… That really sucks to learn that your host might charge you [...]

Kasia’s planning on reworking her archives, and her reasoning makes a lot of sense… I’ll have to keep an eye on how she reworks them, and see if it makes sense to do that here, and possibly on MarketingFix.

While I was at CompUSA buying the Linksys Ethernet Bridge, I also picked up a Linksys WPC 11 (Instant Wireless Network Adapter – Version 3.0) or 802.11 card. It was only $80, and since my company said I couldn’t have one, I bought one with my own cash. It’ll be worth it, as I can [...]

Thanks to a tip from Noel, I went to CompUSA today and picked up a Linksys WET111 (a wireless ethernet bridge) this evening. I brought it home, and realized what he meant by “These are a bitch to setup the first time, but work like butter…” as the damn thing doesn’t come with a Mac [...]

Hal points out two recent articles about multi-tasking and the harm that it can cause for project managers in his latest post. Good stuff to read… it’s doubful the boss will give a shit though.

I got the trusty ‘ol bondi iMac online tonight at the house… it’s not pretty, but it works… We bought this old iMac in 1998, and originally, it had a 233 MHz G3 processor (pretty fast for the time) and 32MB of on board RAM, 2 or 4 MB of VRAM and a 4 GB [...]

In Jeremy’s latest post: Audible.com mini-rant, he shows why websites should function just like the real world. If you’re going to allow someone to spend more money with you online, then you should make sure you allow them to spend less money with them online as well. Turn about is fair play, and people expect [...]

All webloggers should use TrackBack if their weblogging software supports it, and this article helps point to some more articles that explain a little of the ‘why’ question.

Why is it that when a news website is caught red handed they shove it under the carpet, instead of listing it on their ‘corrections’ page? Newspapers do it… why don’t we do it on the web?

This is sad, according to Scott, who cites another source, Office Depot will only sell computer products (hardward and software) that’s certified by Microsoft to run well on their computers… I like my Apple made hardware, software, and finely built peripherals… That’s the difference between the majority of Apple developers and Windows developers. All Apple [...]

I’ve never really paid much attention to accessability guidelines, thought I’ve found them quite interesting. I’m not a designer or a developer by trade anymore, but rather am a sales person, so I just pay attention to them peripherally, but… I’ve got a new Palm that talks to my phone via bluetooth, and the web [...]

Lesson #1: When spending two days out of town meeting with a client about something new that you have to offer them, make sure that the right decision maker is going to be in the room when you make he presentation.

Just landed in Minneapolis after a quick layover in Denver. We’re lucky to be in Minneapolis as they closed the Denver Airport two planes after us due to the snow… Wish me well on the client visit tomorrow morning.

Looking for stock photos for a project you’re working on? Look no further than: Inertia Stock Exchange: share your photos with fellow designers. For personal or commercial use. Long live the free exchange of information and ideas. [via angiemckaig]

Ugh, I’m so overwhelmed by things to do, I have to try writing it all down: 1. Prepare 8 proposals for clients by Monday evening. All proposals are in various states of disrepair at this point 2. Fly to a client on Tuesday (don’t remember when the flight is right now) and return on Wednesday [...]

My mom came up to visit last night as a late birthday. She cooked some great food for us, and loves the new house we’re renting. She also pointed out that I was 27, not 28 years old. Sorry for the error folks… my life’s way too busy…

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”   – Andrew Gide

I read about Steven’s lack of a Mac installer for Documents to Go on a Mac the other day for his new Clie, so I was quite surprised to find a Mac installer for Documents to Go on the “Software Essentials” CD that came with my Palm… Odd that Sony provides less than Palm does, [...]

Getting a Palm Tungsten T to sync via Bluetooth to sync with a Mac isn’t the most intuitive process in the world, so I’m spelling out the steps for those looking to sync a Palm Tungsten T with iCal (calendar and todo info) and Address Book on Mac OS X via Bluetooth: 1. Install Palm [...]

So, after we all got ready today to attack the city (around 1:00ish) we left the house without any defined plan. First stop was a quick visit to the Bat Viewing Park, which is basically a large gravel viewing area for the largest urban colony of bats in the US. The bats all live under [...]

Adrian Holovaty just published an Interview with Web optimization expert Andy King in which she asks Andy a great set of questions that deal with website optimization for news sites specifically, which would also help weblog writers. Here’s some of what I gained from the interview: “67.5% of us are still plugging away at 56Kbps [...]

My company does something pretty cool. They give you your birthday as a vacation day… so I’m taking today off. Today is my 28th birthday, and while turning 28 is pretty lackluster, the day is absolutely beautiful and my brother-in-law and his girlfriend came to town to visit, so later today we’ll go out and [...]

So, here’s the funny thing: I’m sitting on the SXSW Tradeshow floor, setting up my company’s booth and the PowerMac G4 (DP 1.4GHz with a 23″ Cinema Display, btw) doesn’t have Office installed on it, so I pull out my trusty little iBook, and make a quick copy for the trade show (we’ve got the [...]

So, the roadrunner guy showed up today to install my cable modem… why he had to come out to just plug in a modem, I’ll never understand… So, a week after ordering it, we have broadband.

Back in September I wrote a quick little article about Hooter’s forming a new airline: Hooters Air. At the time, I didn’t think all that much of the article, but, since then, that article has oddly gotten pretty good ranking in Google for the search terms “hooters air” and as a result of that, I’ve [...]

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I have 128 message in my inbox at work. All of them are ‘important’. This morning, I cleaned up my inbox and must have filed at least 100 old message that weren’t really all that important anymore… and I still have 129 messages in my inbox (yes, I got one more while typing this). The [...]

The new house we’re renting pretty much kicks ass, though I did have to go out and backwash the pool this morning at 6am due to a small air leak in the plumbing somewhere… all’s good now, but I really am scared of breaking the pool. Also, I signed up for RoadRunner service (from the [...]

[written on 3/3 at 10:30 pm -- still don't have broadband at the house] Well, the wife and I have been in the new house for three nights now, and tonight was our first experience with UltimateTV. Wow. Can I say that I really don’t know how we lived without a DVR in the house [...]

[written on 3/2 at 10:00 pm] I justed finished reading the latest Media Professional email newsletter by Adam Cohen and I could these two great resources that I couldn’t help but share: Direct Creative which is a “direct response resource site from copywriter Dean Rieck.” Adam’s newsletter points out this page with some great offers [...]

The wife and I just spent the last 6 hours packing up our limited belongings that we hadn’t put into storage into our two cars and making multiple trips from our little one bedroom temporary apartment to the house we’re moving into tomorrow (5-10 blocks east of our apartment complex). Ugh… I’m exhausted, but I’m [...]