Archive for February, 2004
Earlier this week (2/23) ifoAppleStore.com posted this: I have updated information on the Barton Creek (Tex.) store… it will be located in the “R” section of the Austin mall, in space #8 on the upper level, in a space formerly occupied by Fast Forward. Still no word on when it’ll open.
Good Reading from February
0 Comments Published February 28th, 2004 in design + dev, leadership + management, macintosh, marketing + advertising, publishing + content, random, sales and selling, small businessA few links from the month: ADHD Observations – interesting comments from a parent of children with ADHD. CSS Dropshadows – from ALA #172. The Lowering of Loyalty from FastCompany (great first comment). How Not to Win Customer Loyalty from Business2.0. Top 25 Cities in the US for Doing Business from Inc. The Three C’s [...]
John Kelso’s latest article on Same Sex Marriage pretty much hits the nail on the head for me. Too funny.
These people/sites really piss me off because they’ve been spamming my referrers: xsonnerie.com riaa.com And… I won’t be voting for John Kerry blog.johnkerry.com Those three sites have been spamming my referrers for the past month or so… They just got added to my referrer spam list in my referrer scripts… oh, I also don’t montior [...]
The Internet is Bigger than Cable
2 Comments Published February 24th, 2004 in marketing + advertising, publishing + content, sales and sellingQuoting Jeff Jarvis in full (because the information is that important to me: The Internet is now bigger than cable, according to eMarketer (via MediaPost and LostRemote). …eMarketer now estimates U.S. household Internet penetration is about 67.9 percent. That compares with a 65.8 percent U.S. household penetration level for cable, according to an eMarketer analysis [...]
I’m always confused about whether or not to install Apple’s Security Updates as soon as they’re available. Today’s latest release… Security Update 2004-02-23 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components: DiskArbitration IPSec Point-to-Point-Protocol tcpdump Ok, first, I don’t know what any of those [...]
Note to Job Seekers – email address tip
2 Comments Published February 23rd, 2004 in get a job, leadership + management, sales and sellingIf you’re applying to a job, please keep the email account you’re using to collect responses to your application clean, so you can receive emails from the hiring manager. The fact that I got this message twice from the same candidate’s two different yahoo accounts listed in their resume just took that candidate off my [...]
The wife and I, along with several friends, are planning a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico soon. We’re planning this trip for two reasons: 1) We need a vacation and 2) We’re seriously thinking of moving to Mexico in the coming years. I’ll not go into too much detail about reason #2, but will say only [...]
This spot for Nutri-Grain is great. It’s the little things that put a smile on your face at the end of a long day… [via This is not your practice blog] ps. check out the other spots they’ve got on that site by clicking previous and next.
Friday the 13th: Bad Luck
2 Comments Published February 13th, 2004 in leadership + management, marketing + advertising, sales and sellingToday was definitely Friday the 13th. I don’t post about the office on this weblog very often, but today was just one of those days. I’m a sales manager at work, and today, my “star performer” told me she had been offered a job at another company. That means she’s leaving. Ugh… can’t tell you [...]
Read Adrian Holovaty’s “Topix.net service policy: Hypocrisy in action” well written… I agree… Topix just drains traffic from otherwise deserving websites, but then again, it might add traffic to those little websites it steals from… depends on how you look at it.
Tom Hespos has posted some pretty enlightening reading on the subject of “what’s next in marketing” in his post title Expectations of Relevance. “…what do advertisers do when the broadcast model fails to deliver? I’d argue that they first need to learn more about their target audiences. What interests, conditions and behaviors are strongly correlated [...]
Today’s “words to live by”: It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry S Truman I can’t say how many times in my life I’ve found that to be true.
After spending one week using SpamSieve with Mailsmith, I’m very happy with the results: Overall Stats since installation: Filtered Mail 809 Good Messages 731 Spam Messages (47%) SpamSieve Accuracy 31 False Positives 23 False Negatives (43%) 96.5% Correct Corpus 871 Good Messages 822 Spam Messages (49%) 83878 Total Words Showing Statistics Since 2/1/04 6:39 PM [...]
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo Galilei
Are you a manager? Do you want to be a manager? Do you work for a manager? Answered yes to any of those questions? If so, read How to manage smart people by Scott Berkun. Quick article that’s full of great little tips like: The following phrase is one of my favorite tools as a [...]
I watched the game, but wasn’t impressed by the commercials and tuned out the half-time show about half-way through… then I read about this: Stupid CBS… Bad idea… Bad execution…
I finally did it. I broke down and bought Mailsmith. I used Mailsmith 1.0 and 1.5 when OS X was first released, because Apple’s Mail.app was utterly horrible, and I received a free NFR copy because I was working for a small Macintosh news site at the time… and Bare Bones saw fit to give [...]
This week, I noticed one thing that shows a difference between my daddy and me. (I noticed these things while getting my belongings ready for a move from one house to another). My dad collected things, and I collect things, but we collect different things… I have a room full of computer stuff. I collect [...]
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