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Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist Todd Chism
One of my fellow moderators on an Entrepreneur forum we both spend too much time on,Todd Chism, just got nominated by his colleagues for Entrepreneur of the Year - and made it to the final! Todd's a great guy and has built a great company selling Read More...
The grass is not greener
I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.. " 80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them " Another.. " People Read More...
Living in Gworld
Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's Read More...
More Gmail
My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month Read More...
It's not 1998 anymore Ma
Yeah, working as a FTE does change your perspective. Way, way back I loved reading about and playing with SEO techniques - all new and sneaky. Just this month I've started looking around again at what's going on and frankly I'm stunned. All Read More...
Product sourcing - a lot of sharks out there
Last summer, prompted by a neighbor who has the UPS guy at her front door even more than we do, my wife decided to get into "selling stuff online". It's not just beanie babies on eBay apparently. There's a lot to learn about - wholesalers, Read More...
The Blockbuster Netflix war continues
I've posted about the ups and downs of Blockbuster before. This morning Mike points us to the latest pundit who says that Blockbuster will die within 2 years . I can't refute his findings, and if true it's pretty sad. Everyone needs competition, Read More...
Being different does work
I'm being slow to catch up on reading blogs since my recent week vacation - most I delete (unread) when they get old, but I never delete Seth's. So, today's read was Bought and Sold - and I remembered that this actually happened to me. We Read More...
Take your cooler!
It's happened again; Seth posts about something that just happened to me . If it were really a security issue, they'd have to enforce it completely. If it's just a silly policy that someone dreamed up one day, it's sure to annoy people. Read More...
Sorry Scott
With just one day to go, I wake up and realize that I never did link to Scott Cate's promotion in aid of Diabetes . EasySearchASP.NET is cool regardless, so it's worth checking out. (One side-effect of using this title - at least 1 in 3 developers Read More...
Do you have a will? Living will? POA?
Having visited the ER recently I was reminded of this. If you don't have a Last Will and Testament, Living Will, Power of Attorney or a Medical Power of Attorney you should get one. Here's how: www.legacywriter.com I was very impressed by this Read More...
You just never know
Today I was tidying my office and came across an old UK car registration document that I no longer needed (obviously). A reg for a 1937 Ford that is, so quite unusual. I had bought a US title and "imported" it into the UK back in '96 to Read More...
My first lost package
I just found out that my recent Woot purchase, a 19” LCD Monitor, has been lost by Fedex. L The tracking simply stopped after arrival at Carol Stream, IL a week ago. I’ve never been through this process before so it will be interesting – Read More...
Die Netlfix
I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out - most people I've read seems to say that Netflix rules, Blockbuster drools. I disagree ( and I'm not alone ) Blockbuster' s recent (and well overdue) improvement to their service should Read More...
End of an era
OurLittleNet's domains are expiring, and today I notice that www.OurRoswell.net is starting to fail when requested. Only the alternative RoswellGA.ourlittle.net domains will continue to work. It's the end of an era. The Our Roswell website went live (on Read More...
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