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A few months ago, I bought a Powerbook sleeve cover and keyboard cover from RadTech. I’ve been extremely pleased with the sleeve cover and keyboard cover since buying them. They’ve helped my protect my Powerbook from any more scratches or dings in the paint job.
On a plane this past week, I noticed a [...]

A - Alcohol: The key to surviving college.
B - Beer: The most disgusting alcohol of all, but great for chugging.
C - Class: What you’re supposed to get up and go to after a Thursday night party.
D - Dancing: A favorite pastime of almost every drunk, usually looks pathetic.
E - Emergency: The keg is empty or [...]

Derrick Story, Managing Editor of the O’Reilly Network, has written a few iPhoto articles lately, that I think are quite good reads, and are pretty useful:
Output Like a Pro with iPhoto5: Fantastic article. Derrick shares with us a quick ‘how-to’ for importing your images, rating all of them as soon as you’ve imported them, [...]

This is horribly funny:
Have your Cake and Eat it To from CreativeBits.
This list of 23 tips for how to get away with working as little as possible while at work (from a creative perspective), is just hilarious. I think this one is the best:
Being a team player:
20. When you know that your colleagues don’t [...]

What’s in your menu bar?
If you’re looking for some cool OS X Menubar items, look no futher than this site.
Lots of cool stuff out there I’d never heard of.

Sam Decker gives us a lesson in the art of offering people a lesser choice:
Think about the choices we give customers. On a call, a visit to the site, a visit to the store – in that experience are they presented with an alternative to go up or down on any purchase? Do you have [...]

I’ve read a lot about the long tail, but nothing as well written on the revenue opportunities of the long tail, as this piece written by Omar Tawakol.
These couple of comments:
“The trick is that their business models allow them to make money on the diversity of interests by aggregating sales, not by averaging [...]

Writing HTML for email newsletters has always been a pain in the butt for me. I’ve never been particularly good at it, so I was pleased to read this new How to write HTML for email guide was a welcome read.

Anyone know how to get multiple Google ads on one page to display properly?
update: Ok, nevermind, I figured it out. I had a problem with my PHP code that was causing more than 3 Adsense ads to be written to the page, so I fixed that, then waited a few minutes to see the [...]

Wow.
Paul Graham, one of the original founders of the company that Yahoo bought to create their online stores for small-medium sized business, posted this article on how to start a start-up. Great read.
Pretty inspirational.

I needed to buy some rechargeable batteries today. I thought about stopping into a store to buy them, but then I realized, I didn’t really know where to buy them. Radio Shack? Best Buy? CompUSA? Circuit City? Fry’s?
So, I came home from lunch and started with Amazon.com, mainly because I [...]

I struggle with cold calling. As a professional sales person, selling large dollar amounts, I struggle with cold calling. Why? I don’t know, but I do know that cold calling sucks… but it’s a part of my job.
So, I read this cold calling article with interest.
Cold calling doesn’t suck because I hate doing [...]

In case you didn’t know:
Today is Steak and BJ Day.
Ladies, it’s your turn to take care of your man.

Ding! is dangerous. Very Dangerous.
Ding! is Southwest Airlines latest push into the consumer’s life. It’s a desktop application that alerts you to Southwest’s latests travel deals, and it’s wonderful marketing.
This is user invited desktop travel advertising at it’s best folks. I trust Southwest because I’ve never had a bad experience [...]

My best friend runs HartzVictims.org.
He set up HartzVictims.org because his kitty, Riley, was hurt by Hartz’s flea and tick products back in the summer of 2001. Riley was featured on the local cable news channel, and the wrote numerous letters to Hartz, to no avail.
So, in 2002, he started up the site, [...]

In the past 24 hours, I’ve done quite a bit with the server move… I’ll try to document the actual steps I went through at some point, so that someone else moving from MT to WP can sort of follow my steps (hopefully they’ll plan it out a little better) if they want to.
Basically, [...]

I’m finally moving this site off of my dedicated server and onto the Dreamhost account… and it’s going to be an ugly move.
This move is completely based on the idea of me saving money on my hosting (from $150/month ot $8/month thank you very mouch) bills… not on making the transition as smooth as possible. [...]