Archive for May, 2007

5 Ways Bloggers Tick Me Off

Require me to login and or register to leave a comment. Who the flip are you that I should have to remember another password just to talk to you?
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 [...]

Tumbling Across Political Incorrectness

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 [...]

Random House and Bad Words

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 [...]

Dealing With A Racist

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 [...]

Live By Price…

…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 [...]

Blogging Day Off

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)

Speedlinks 5-27-07

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. [...]

The Two Pile Theory of Freedom

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. [...]

Beating my Technorati Goal

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 [...]

5 Easy Steps to Podcasting with a Wordpress Blog

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 [...]