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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Great Retorts to Web Design Client Requests

You know the drill…you worked hard on a fabulous design and now it’s time to unveil the project to the client. Your heart and soul is wrapped up in the presentation, but the client hits you with something like “but I’d rather have the icon in cornflower blue.”
Eric Karjaluoto’s blog ideasonideas has a great […]

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This is one funny-ass commercial.

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Thriller, India Style

Simply Fantastic.

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37 Signals Knows How to Ask For What They Want

The friendly folks at 37 Signals are looking for a Rails Developer. They certainly know how to ask for what they want and tell you about their corporate culture in one simple paragraph:
37signals is searching for another full-time Rails programmer to work on (mostly) existing and (occassionally) new products. You should be comfortable working […]

Orange County, Santiago Canyon Fire

Today on the way to work I was greated with a wall of smoke and the flickering of flames as I tried to find a path around the large brush fire that engulfed a good portion of the area along the 241 toll road and Santiago Canyon Road. The fire touched portions of the […]

Good People, Good Company

A very thoughtful set of gestures from a good and decent company. Read more about one woman’s receipt of extraordinary kindness from a rather special business.
“With hearts like theirs, you know they’re good to do business with.”
By the way, the good and decent company happens to be Zappos (the shoe & accessory web shop).

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SunRocket Took My Money and Ran

How nice. SunRocket (the VoIP phone service) has ceased operations AFTER they issued me a $214.11 charge for service I had cancelled months earlier. The charge posted to my credit card on June 29, 2007. Here’s the series of email exchanges:
Them (via email after I called their support number and talked with a human):
“Response (MaryAnn […]

Leonard Carlson is Getting Sexy

For those who need to know…
www.LeonardWho.com is getting a complete overhaul. I’m 90% done with the overall design (my first from-scratch WordPress theme) and just working out the video compression/delivery kinks. Stay tuned for a whole new “Leonard Who?” show!
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Is Network Solutions Telling the (SEO) Truth?

 An open question to all SEO-ers out there…
Is Network Solutions correct when the make the blanket statement “Search engines perceive domain names registered for 5 years or longer to be more legitimate than domain names registered for a shorter term, and therefore rank them more highly.” or are they just trying to upsell us […]

R.I.P. Business 2.0

Today was a sad day. Recieved the final issue - EVER - of Business 2.0 Magazine.

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