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Just wanted to share with those of you looking for a job, or a better job, that LJWorld.com is looking for a web programmer/developer. I’d highly recommend the job to anyone with the reuqired skill set. LJWorld is one of the leaders in the industry. Good luck if you apply. And if I know you, [...]

While my last post about Jeremy’s “PageRank is Dead” article shows that I think Jeremy’s correct, you’ve got to also admit that Dell’s gotta be pissed that a search for dell lattitude 610 brings up a post I wrote as the top search result… Kind of funny. Maybe PageRank isn’t totally dead…

Props to Jeremy for his PageRank is Dead post. I’d agree, page rankings in Google seem quite odd now… sorry I missed it while on vacation.

Someone sent me a link to the e-bore-ometer today. I haven’t checked it out yet, but it looks like a great tool to help guide those of us that might be boring.

We flew into Dallas late last night… Drove home to Austin this morning. Our vacation was fantastic. I uploaded some photos from our trip here I’ll post the 7 days of writing from our trip tonight. (posted the past 7 days of writing as if I posted them when they were written — see below [...]

On the plane back to Dallas, I figured I’d play with creating an iMovie of our photos, since Steve Jobs showed such a cool demo of his kids at the last MacWorld Expo Keynote I went to. It was a good two years ago, but the demo was cool, and I still haven’t played with [...]

Monday was our last full day on the island, so we got up early and headed out to catch the ferry over to Pinel Island, since we hadn’t done that yet. We found the ferry to Pinel around 8:45 (this was a chore, since there aren’t any signs at the ferry telling you that you’ve [...]

On Sunday the 25th, we just sat around our villa and relaxed. We’d had enough of driving around the island, and wanted a little quite time to ourselves. Around 9:00 p.m., we headed to the Maho Beach area, as it’s generally the night life part of the island. At first we headed to Bliss, then [...]

We finally slept in a bit, or at least got a late start on the 24th. We were planning on heading to Anguilla for the day, but didn’t arrive in Marigot (where one boards the ferry) until 10:00. It took us so long to get there because we sent postcards today to our loved ones [...]

We got up early on Friday the 23rd (our five year anniversary) and actually got ready quite quickly. We were on the road to Orient Beach around 9:00. Traffic at 9am is pretty bad, so, I’d recommend to anyone coming to St. Martin island to do your driving before 9am, or after 10am. We took [...]

The wife and I awoke to a sunny breeze and a clear sky on Thursday, May 22nd. We drove to the north western corner of the island, and drove through Terra Basses (the Low Lands) where there are many large mansions (probably owned by rich celebrities from the U.S. Some of the homes are quite [...]

We woke up this morning, to a beautiful day. The beach sounds and the constant breeze were a wonderful thing to wake up to. After taking showers, we headed down to the beach and pool to lay out in the sun. I continued reading The Eaters of the Dead, and she was reading Bridget Jones’s [...]

After arriving in St. Martin today, the wife and I drove around the island, stopping to eat a late lunch, before continuing to circle the island. We took a few photos of the villa we’re staying at, before and after our quick trip around the island. At dinner time, we talked about having kids, not [...]

I just wanted to take a moment to say that after driving (we rented one in St. Maarten) a Honda Fit (sold in Europe and Asia) that I think the car would do quite well in America. It’s a Ford Focus type of car, but with Honda design written all over it… problem is, it [...]

The wife and I arrived in St. Maarten around 1:30 local time on a Tuesday. We deboarded the plane, went through ‘immigration’ and then grabbed our bags prior to meeting our rental car agent and the villa agent. After picking up our very cute Honda Fit rental, we drove out to Pelican Key to our [...]

I bought one song through the iTunes Music Store in preparation for our trip. In Austin, I generally listen to KGSR 107.1 (great radio station in Austin) because they play great music, across all genres of music. They generally play “Texas Country” music and the styles that compliment it during the day. One song that’s [...]

I bought a used 5GB iPod off a buddy about a year ago. I use it every day at the office to listen to music through my Harmon Kardon speaker system (why the company I work for bought that good of a speaker set for an office setting I don’t know) and I love it, [...]

I’m writing this entry from the exit row of an American Airlines 757 headed from Miami to St. Maarten: We got up earlier than sin this morning to get to the DFW airport. Our flight left at 6:15 a.m., bound for Miami where we were to catching a connection to St. Maarten. Over the past [...]

When I get back from my vacation, the top priority on my list is installing SpamAssassin, thanks to the mini-review that John Gruber just posted

So, this weekend was spent preparing for my trip to St. Martin which starts this week. I had a lot to do: I spent a lot of Saturday and Sunday at the office, so that I could knock out a bunch of things that have to be done sometime before I get back, and I’m [...]

Noel Jackson has released the truly fantastic PhotoPal 1.0b. I’m using it here… you should be too. Think MovableType templating, with the ease of PHP understanding for a photo store, photo blog, or even just a handy place to hold your images for personal archival and retrieval purposes… truly fantastic.

I’m an SBC customer. I’ve been an MCI customer before. I’ve given money to Pacific Bell (now SBC), but thanks to Mr. Nosuch, I’m seriously considering an alternative to the local phone company. Currently, I’m paying roughly: $75/month to DirectTV for a satellite TV dish and UltimateTV (think TiVo, but made by the evil empire) [...]

I’m going on vacation soon, for a while week (finally). It’s our 5 year anniversary, and I’m taking the wife to the tiny two nation island of Sint Maarten/St. Martin. The St. Maarten Reservation Center has helped us plan our trip, and I feel like Ted and JoAnne there are close friends of mine already. [...]

I’ve installed another hack: Google Hilite from Dean Allen over at Textism. So, now if you search Google for somewhere over the rainbow-mp3 and follow the first link, you’ll see a page where the terms you’ve searched for are highlighted. Pretty cool. Thanks Dean.

Thanks to Noel, I installed PhotoPal, which is a fantastic automatic photo album layout engine. I love it… the software package is still in the dev phase (it’s only at version .9x) as of my installation, but it rocks. One thing that’s lacking is the documentation, but Noel’s pretty responsive to email. I needed to [...]

When you’re designing advertising, or pretty much anything for that matter, you should know the reasons for using certain colors: Color Psychology Psychology of Color About.com: The Psychology of Color Interesting: The Meaning of Color in Cultures From HP (a PDF): The Meaning of Color

Forbes Ranks Austin #1 in “Best Places For Business And Careers”. Cool. Very Cool.

Scott’s Feedster has made the blogrolls quite a bit lately, and while definitely cool, it wasn’t something I was following all that much, but, while I was telling him to call AppleCare to get his iBook diagnosed over the phone yesterday, he showed me Feedster Images. I think Feedster Images is totally cool… in fact, [...]

A few months ago, I asked my SFA Manager to get me access to my email from outside the company firewall. He gave me a RSA keyfob and set up two dial-up connections in XP for me to use to connect to the company intranet, so I could check my email from outside the office. [...]

I’ve got this little pet peeve: When people say “Orientated” I want to tell them that they are stupid. Orientated isn’t a word. It’s a term that differentiates the Sergeants in the Army from the Officers (learned that at Officer Basic at Fort Knox, KY). Orientated is a term that people without a college education [...]

How to Become a Great Boss, The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees, by Jeffrey J. Fox. Sounds cheezy right? It is. … but it’s also a fantastic read for anyone that is a ‘boss’ or has a ‘boss’ and aspires to one day become a ‘boss’. The books is organized into 50 [...]

A friend of mine recently wrote me an email containing this snippet: I’ve been considering writing some OS X software as a secondary source of revenue. Not sure what to expect from the OS X shareware market in terms of actual income. I’d like to give certain stuff away for free but also get something [...]

Stuck in Atlanta. Damn weather blew in right as I left a meeting for the airport (if I’d have gotten to the airport 30 minutes earlier, I’d have caught a flight back to Austin early) and right after I checked in, I heard that fateful announcement: “ATTENTION: THE AIRPORT IS NOW CLOSED DUE TO BAD [...]

Found this handy dandy Character Entity Reference thanks to a link from Zeldman

Love is in the Air – Great spot from Lowe Worldwide featuring a perfume. Enjoy.

Adam Kalsey wrote a great intro to small business costs in response to an article he read that wasn’t up to par in his opinion. Adam covers things like Merchant Accounts, Secure Certificates, Marketing, Cataglog and Shopping Cart Software, and Implementation, briefly, but well. I’d like to add a little to the marketing advice Adam [...]

Credit Card Micropayment information, related to Apple and the new iTunes music service… neat information. Very neat. [via More Like This Weblog] iTunes Music Store Digital Rights Summary [via More Like This Weblog] iTunes sells 275,000 songs in 18 hours. Wow. Reported by MacWorldUK but not directly linked: The feat is especially remarkable when considering [...]

Thanks to all the comments on my most recent Related Entries post, I’ve installed Adam Kalsey’s Related Entries code. The simple steps were to install Brad Choate’s excellent MTSQL plugin. Then use Adam’s code on my individual entry templates, and viola, I now have Related Entries for people coming from Google looking for information. Interestingly, [...]

Street Smarts: The Sales Commission Dilemma Need to read that this weekend.