For those of you (the few, the proud) who follow me on Twitter or are subjected to my Twitter feed on Facebook or Plaxo, you know that I’ve been experimenting with all kinds of ways to use Twitter with everything else. Given all the choices at some point to you have to focus for just [...]
A little poll…
So I’ve got my book up on the Kindle site. One of the things I was thinking of experimenting with (that might generate some traffic), is to make a book on tape version of the story and sell it myself. So if the price were right:
Hope Fades for PS3 as a Comeback Player — Sony once again picks the wrong horse!
Holiday sales of Sony’s Playstation 3 lagged behind Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, as its heavy price tag weighed on a sensitive economy. At the end of September, the Wii had a wide lead with nearly 35 million units sold since its launch in 2006 compared with about 22 million Xbox 360 consoles and [...]
Slump Battering Small Business, The question is whether there is opportunity in this…
The downturn is threatening the survival of a major driver of the U.S. economy: small business. The company that employs me, Intuit, is focused on personal finance and small businesses. In every rough time opportunity arises for the strongest businesses that can align themselves as entities that can provide solutions and services [...]
More Entertainment…
Straight No Chaser – 12 Days of Christmas
This is pretty Amazing…and humorous…
Self-publishing a book: 25 things you need to know
An Article I found on the CNET about Self-Publishing. I present this only to show that some of the things that one commenter on my Excerpt download page made are absolutely true. Self-Publishing is probably small time. But as all these guys point out, there is always a glimmer of hope.
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A humorous interlude…
Posted for a friend in the hospital at this time so they can find it.
Now some things could only happen because there is a Christmas, like this story:
Moses and Jesus and an old man were in a threesome playing golf one day. Moses pulled up to the tee and drove a long one. The ball [...]
Truly scary…
We’ve known that Detroit Big 3 have been horribly mismanaged, but Toyota looked on top of the world…
Toyota warned it expects to post its first-ever operating loss in the fiscal year through March as recessions at home and abroad corral Japan’s biggest automobile maker into as tight a corner as it has ever known.
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Santa and QuickBase?
Ho Ho Ho.
The QuickBase Team just landed it’s biggest account — there’s a great story, and to go along with it there’s video where I got interviewed about our new customer.
I wonder if Santa likes tuna mac-n-cheese casserole?
Merry Christmas
The plan over the holiday…
Over the Christmas/New Years Holiday I will be doing 2 basic things (for me…beside the general celebrations and visits):
Reading “Troublesome Young Men”
Carving out some time to write a significant amount of book 2 of the Urtaru Trilogy.
School (and several releases of software this fall) really got in the way of both reading and writing for [...]
Scobleizer: Tim O’Reilly answers FriendFeeders
This is a really interesting interview with Tim O’Reilly. He talks about a lot of different topics: The state of publishing, ebooks, where the unix animals come from. An awesome very informal talk that really gets you thinking…
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Web 2.0 and Personal Branding
This is an article from The AppGap, a blog about Web 2.0 and Social Media issues. I thought the article was interesting given that there is a certain amount of “marketing” that is done by individuals when sharing info, digging something (like this), posting something to your blog (like this), and then maybe [...]
The First Lady Of Star Trek Passes Away
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the most ubiquitous actor in Star Trek, died today at age 76. The wife of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, she also provided the computer voices on every version of Trek. And she played three pivotal characters: Number One in the pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, and Lwaxana Troi in TNG [...]
Media Watchdog Accuses Weather Channel Of Pro-Weather Bias
This is a riot! Critic claims The Weather Channel shamelessly over-reports stories on hurricanes and weekend forecasts at the expense of other news. Shadow groups like the Knights Doppler controlling the media.
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Amazon’s product ranking
This is a pretty interesting Squidoo Lens about how Amazon calculates its rankings. Being as how I have something listed on Amazon, it is very interesting to me.
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Me and the G1
OK so I’ve recently acquired a G1 to do some debug at work for our platforms. For those of you who do not know, the G1 is the phone from Google, that might someday rival the iPhone. It’s put out by T-Mobile.
The G1 has a lot of cool feature like excellent integration with the major [...]
10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time
Purportedly: Getting things done rapidly doesn’t mean working harder – just working smarter. In this article, you’ll find 10 general, time-saving tips to cut down on your development time.
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WSJ.com – Reviving the Martini’s Lost Ancestor
This random article came up today. I’m not much of a martini drinker, but this kind of alcoholic paleontology is interesting…something to try
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WSJ.com – New Payment-Card Data ‘Don’t Need It, Purge it
There’s a school of thought in information technology that encourages businesses to save customers’ data — which may include names, addresses and credit-card numbers — because it may come in handy for market research. But this practice is at odds with credit-card issuers’ attempts to persuade businesses to eliminate data they don’t need
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A Squidoo Lens for my Book?
In my continuing saga to figure out what the heck is out there, I now have a Squidoo Lens for my book.
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I’m not sure what Squidoo really is, beyond what I filled in and what it appears to empirically do, I’m just reading through all the stuff on it. But now [...]
