Archive for May, 2007
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Publish a partial feed. When you change to partial feeds, I unsubscribe. I am sorry about the scrappers who republish your feeds; but honestly, if I wanted [...]
May 31st, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, List of 5 | 12 Comments
A while back, I set up a Tumblelog. If you do not know, a Tumblelog is a quick and dirty blog, primarily excerpts, quotes, links and so on. I like to think of it as my brainstorming site, where I can post links, photos or random thoughts that have not yet fermented into a blog [...]
May 31st, 2007 | Posted in the blog | 3 Comments
Following on the last post regarding the use of certain words, I was delighted to come across the following from the Random House website concerning their decision to publish “bad” words in the dictionary.
From their site:
Our first duty as dictionary publishers is to describe accurately what words in fact do exist in the language, however [...]
May 30th, 2007 | Posted in society | No Comments
He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.
~Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Over at her other blog, Wendy has a blog entry titled Racism in Business, where she asks “I’m curious as to whether anyone else has encountered a racist statement in a business setting, and how you handled it.”.
Let me say up [...]
May 30th, 2007 | Posted in Personal Freedom, small business | 8 Comments
…die by price.
As much as I like lists of 5, there are only 2 real reasons you never want to market your goods or services based on price:
Someone could be smarter than you: If they are, they will get better and better, more efficient and drive the price lower than you can go. Wal-Mart springs [...]
May 29th, 2007 | Posted in Hughisms, small business | 3 Comments
It being Memorial Day, you should NOT be reading this, you should be out having fun with your family and friends.
See you tomorrow!
(If you insist on sticking around, check out the archives)
May 28th, 2007 | Posted in the blog | 3 Comments
I like simple. Here are 5 ways (plus a bonus!) I came across to live a wonderful life.
Debra Moorehead talks about overcoming negative resistance in your life.
Dawud hits another out of the park with the story of the Fisher King. If you do not tear up just a little bit, I worry about you. [...]
May 27th, 2007 | Posted in links | 1 Comment
I once had a dear friend explain to me that there is a lot of crap (edited version) in all our lives.
Further, she said all the crap could be divided into two piles: our crap and their crap.
You gain freedom in your life to the extent that you do NOT play in other people’s crap. [...]
May 26th, 2007 | Posted in Personal Freedom | 3 Comments
Well, it pays to have a goal.
My goal was to break the Technorati 100,000 in two months.
I did it in 28 days.
As of this writing, I am ranked 88, 409, or put another way, there are only (!) 88,409 blogs more popular (according to Technorati) than mine. Thank you to everyone who thought anything I [...]
May 25th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, the blog | 9 Comments
First, a disclaimer. I am writing this as a functional guide to PodCasting with Wordpress. This is NOT the definitive, encyclopedic guide to podcasting. Rather, this is a how to for the non-technical among us. I have tried to enclose links to my sources if you wish to have more background, or as a springboard [...]
May 25th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, List of 5, the blog | 2 Comments