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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 tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and underestimate what can be done in ...

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 tweet this morning about Google Apps for business, perhaps that's only temporary! Go ...

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 or so and reading it there. When I went on vacation for a week I was reading it on my phone ...

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 this talk of people earning $1m/month. wtf? I hadn't even heard of Google TrustRank until ...

I went to renew my Microsoft Partner Program membership today before it runs out at the end of the month. For a few hundred bucks I get 10 copies of XP and Office to use around the house - there are other benefits, but that alone makes me renew each year. This year, something is different. I'm now using FF as my default browser... So when I ...

I've had a blog post from Seth Godin marked as unread for a month now, even though I've read it a few times. I'm not sure why it struck a chord with me, but this wasn't actually something that Seth said - he was just reporting on some marketing that w00t did on adwords. Search for "goog" and you'll see ...

Ok, I ought to give credit where it's due because you won't find this great example of "how to do PR properly" unless you're searching the site. Floyd Price of Code Spaces posted a comment on an old Subversion post and did a great job of answering my pointed questions. I haven't switched; I haven't even ...

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, and I'm sure it's done something to keep Netflix honest. Remember throttling? ...

This experiment is fascinating. I now have CA's version of CallingID toolbar in FF/IE and it is really interesting to watch. The big names are obviously all green, but some very well known sites are yellow. Most small sites are yellow, but some are red. Red causes all sorts of traffic to leave immediately I'd imagine. Or not even go there ...

I was offered a free year of credit monitoring a.k.a Identity Theft Protection with Equifax, so I signed up today. If you're ever going to use a super-strong password I suggest Equifax is the place. So I made up a nice strong one; mixtures of upper and lower case, numbers, punctuation. Nice. Except Equifax, the people that "serve our ...