May 5th, 2006
I’d realized that my last blog praising the guys at Contegix existed only on my now-nuked old Typo-powered blog. And these guys rock so much that I wanted to make sure I had some praise for them still existing on the interwebs. So, to reiterate, Contegix kicks ass. As a managed-hosting provider, [...]
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May 3rd, 2006
Seth Godin, the bald leader of the Purple Cow Group (now playing in Vegas three times nightly) has been talking about averages lately. First, the realization that half the people you may be marketing to are going to be below average. Of course, he means they’ll be below the median. He later [...]
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May 2nd, 2006
Today, a friend of mine asked me write an endorsement for him on LinkedIn. I hadn’t been to LinkedIn in a while, so surfed around for a tad, and noticed a new feature. LinkedIn lets you know the localities of your network. As you can see here, I’ve got links to the [...]
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May 1st, 2006
A year or two ago, in response to one of my mother-in-law’s Windows questions, I gave her an iBook. Since then, I’ve been training my wife to know everything there is to know about consumer usage of a Mac. Now my father-in-law has retired, and I steered him towards a MacBook Pro.
My evil plan came [...]
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May 1st, 2006
Today, being a lazy Sunday, I surfed over to 37Signals and picked up a copy of Getting Real. I know I’m a few weeks late on this meme, but I truly enjoyed the book.
On the surface, after reading 177 pages, you could easily think that there was nothing concretely useful in the book. [...]
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