Category Archives: Personal

The boring stuff that happens in my life.

Roadwork Next 15 Miles

3/13/2008 – 7:20 pm

I am preparing to move all of my web and email hosting to a new server. I’ve been fortunate to have an in-trade hosting arrangement for many years now (thanks to Jeff at Iguanasoft!). But my host’s owner is winding down some of his equipment, and I had outgrown the server I was on. [...]

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Merry Christmas to me!

12/18/2007 – 12:26 pm
Crowd Favorite

I get to unwrap one of my presents early this year, and it ranks up there with some of the best — a new job! I’ll be working with Alex King and the other fine folks at Crowd Favorite. [...]

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Commercial Jingles

6/20/2007 – 6:40 pm

My wife was a Communications major in college. So she often makes observations about how organizations try to get their message out to their audience. One thing she remarked on recently was the decline in the use of musical jingles, as opposed to non-musical slogans, in advertising. [...]

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Another new start

6/13/2007 – 11:19 pm
Free IQ - The Marketplace for Ideas

About two weeks ago, I started a new job (which explains at least part of my blogging lull, you see). I’m working on Free IQ, which is a streaming media site for entrepreneurs. [...]

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Benefits of Blogging

4/27/2007 – 11:33 am

My brother-in-law, Bob, has been keeping a blog on wordpress.com for a while now called Arcane Code. He mostly writes about software development using Microsoft tools, because that’s what he does for a living. [...]

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Tax Time Tradition

4/17/2007 – 4:19 pm

Once again, I’ve upheld my time-honored tradition of getting my taxes in the mail at the last minute.

Just like every other year that I’ve promised myself that I’d get them mailed off weeks in advance…

Of course, it didn’t help that we had some sort of stomach virus making the rounds in our family over the past several weeks. [...]

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Ow. Ow. Ow.

3/12/2007 – 4:06 pm

I’ve spent years at a desk job and very little in the way of extra-curricular activity, so I’m not in the best shape of my life. In fact, I’m in pretty poor shape. I’m grateful that my doctor was diplomatic about it when I had my 40-year-old physical last week. [...]

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Customer Service, Bad and Good

3/7/2007 – 1:21 pm

This is a little story about customer service. It’s about bad customer service, and it’s about good customer service. It’s about how a customer service rep should make sure that he really knows the answer to a question before spouting off, and if he isn’t sure, he should ask someone else.

The dramatis personae in this little skit are Comcast and Tivo. Comcast will be playing the role of bad customer service, and Tivo is cast in the role of the hero. [...]

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Alabama Tornadoes

3/2/2007 – 5:51 pm

Many of you are probably currently familiar with hearing about the tornado that hit Enterprise, Alabama yesterday. What you might not realize is that my wife and I both graduated from the high school that was leveled in that storm system. [...]

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Buggy clock

2/28/2007 – 12:17 pm

I’ve discovered a bug in my clock that’s been causing me all sorts of headaches. It’s really messing with my ability to complete projects when others are expecting them. If I can’t find a fix soon, I’m definitely going to have to get a new clock.

See, the problem is that this clock only counts 24 hours in a day. [...]

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