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Has anyone else noticed that now that the Can-Spam Act passed by the federal government has gone into effect, spam via email is actually worse than it was?
This is ridiculous. In the past week I’ve received at least 4-5 times more spam than I did in a week last year…
I’d like to install [...]

Five points to the first person that can tell me what this quote comes from:
“I had this dream… that my bellybutton was a phillips head screw. So I’m working on it, trying to unscrew it… and when I finally do, my penis falls off… so I pick up my penis and i’m running around with [...]

Found this list:
Free Wireless Internet Access Points in Austin, Texas
… and I figured everyone I knew needed to know where all the free wi-fi spots were in Austin too.

I learned a neat little HTML/Javascript trick on the about page of the newly launched Orkut from Google.
Here is the trick (let the page load entirely, then watch the next line (on smaller pages it’s much cooler… see the individual story archive page to see it happen the way it should really happen)):
This text will [...]

The last day of Connections was really just more of the stuff you’ve read in my past two accounts of my experiences at the conference.
I attended fewer sessions on Day Three than I did during the other two days, I think mainly because I realized (or percieved) that I wasn’t really getting anything out of [...]

Are you a writer? Or maybe an aspiring writer? Maybe just a blogger that enjoys writing in your spare time? (That last one is me.) Do you have to write for work? Maybe you’re not going to ever be a novelist, but if you write for any reason and you have [...]

Hmmm… I have mixed feelings about the second day of the NAA Connections meetings… Where should I start?
I guess I’ll start with the fact that the official NAA blog hasn’t been updated to actually reflect anything happening at the conference on Monday. It jumped from Sunday to an advertisement for the Tuesday session. [...]

Wow, two very cool things: A weblog-safe NYTimes.com link generator. Many many thanks to the Standard.com Blog. Looks like Jimmy’s back and he’s trying to bring the good ol’ Industry Standard brand back with him…

Tonight is my second night in an Embassy Suites with Passym Wireless internet access, and I have to say that Passym really sucks.
Connectivity is just horrible. I don’t know why the service sucks so badly… it might be because I’m in a corner room (they’re larger at the Embassy Suites) or it might be [...]

San Diego is a beautiful town to fly into. Wow! And it’s gorgeous to walk through the touristy area close to the harbor too!
I spent the first day at NAA’s Connections today. It was fun… but it was also a long day (nothing like boarding a plane early in the morning, then [...]

I just finished reviewing a proposal that one of my sales reps is sending to an agency and here are a few notes that I sent him… simple stuff, but useful. (Sometimes it amazes me how un-polished people’s Office skills are).

Use ‘tabs’ to space things out in Word vs. spacing things out manually using [...]

If more people followed this advice (myself included), I bet our debt problems wouldn’t be what they are today:
“Never spend your money before you have it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

I’m heading to San Diego for the first time this week… NAA is hosting their Connections Conference there this year. Looking forward to meeting lots of folks and learning as much as I can.
Posting might be light this week.

I just read a brief story in the online version of the Austin American-Statesman that talks about Apple possibly opening a retail store in the Barton Creek Mall [reg. req.].
The story mentions the fact that Apple has posted multiple Job listings for a Barton Creek location on their website including those for:

Req ID: 2082561: Assistant [...]

Jeremy Wright asked me to tell him how to put full posts in his RSS templates, so, here are all of my RSS feeds and their templates:

RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup and comments. [template]
RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup but without comments. [template]
RSS 1.0 Full Feed, without HTML markup and [...]

I firmly believe RSS feeds should contain the full text of an entry and here is a good answer to those of you who might be asking “Why?”.
If you really, really, really want people to see your great web design, youíre flattering yourself; content is king. If you didnít believe that the content is the [...]

I attended the Central Texas Direct Marketing Association luncheon today and the topic was “How to maximize the Internet for Direct Marketing”. The luncheon was moderated by Lee Sellers of Dell, and the panelists were include Bill Cutshall of Tocquigny Advertising, Interactive + Marketing, Curt Finch of Journyx and William Leake of LCG.
It was a [...]

Confessions of a Car Salesman from edmunds.com.
Great article… long, but hard to stop reading…

Great quote to keep in mind:
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

Maury McCown writes a daily newsbit or two at RailheadDesign.com… and he’s a guy I like to read, so when I read this post this evening, I was intrigued by the Amazon.com sales ranking of the iPod Minis… Here are the ranks as Maury recorded them at 6:30 am Central time this morning (in the [...]

Do you suffer from N.A.D.D.?
I do.

For the past year or so, we’ve been searching for “the perfect” house (for us) in Austin. And, two months ago we found it with the help of our realtor.
Today at 10:00 am, we’re signing all of the final closing paperwork, and the house shall be ours.
I’ve debated putting up a “how [...]

I was impressed with Steve Jobs’ keynote today, and I didn’t even watch it…
(Overheard today in an AIM window):
buddy: Ok, I really want a Mac now
me: heh, why?
buddy: I just got done watching the Macworld Keynote and Steve Jobs introduced “GarageBand” as part of the new iLife suite. He had John Mayer on stage [...]

People’s ingenuity and creative skills amaze me. These are two funny examples of websites that aren’t too good for George Bush:
Bush in 30 Seconds — Really great quality ads produced by ‘normal people’ that aren’t at all friendly to the president’s re-election bid.
Bush2004.com — This site is:
Copyright 2004. Use freely. Bush2004.com is not affiliated with [...]

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to start cleaning out stuff that’s been sitting in the computer closet for too long, especially if I’ve never used it… so, I’m planning on putting things up for auction on eBay, with the goal of getting rid of them for good. If the items don’t [...]