Archive for January, 2007

Cool Uses for Your iPod

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Most of the ads we see for iPods just show people acting cool: dancing their way through life with their headphones plugged in. My nieces in Chicago let me in on their secret theory: that many of the people one sees on the street aren’t even listening to an iPod at all, but are just [...]

2000 Bloggers

Monday, January 29th, 2007

I don’t know that this is in any way special, but my friend Angela Parker mentioned the 2000 Bloggers project during her seminar last week and … I’m in it!
Interesting, without doubt, but how to analyze the significance? To see your face mixed in with all those others is fun. To see your site traffic [...]

When Clients Don’t Pay Their Bills - flyte: web marketing strategies for small business

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Maybe the checks are slower to arrive in January because we’re all trying to get our 1099’s out and do our other end-of-year financial and reorganizational tasks. Benefit of the doubt aside, Flyteblog addresses client tardiness with this post: When Clients Don’t Pay Their Bills - flyte: web marketing strategies for small business
If it’s ever [...]

Chicago Bears vs. Atomic Cake?

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

I may be the only person who was actually in Chicago last Sunday AT Soldier Field whose exposure to the Bears was nothing but a drive-by-with-windows-down. Ok, so technically I wasn’t at Soldier Field but nearby briefly.

Adobe Creative Suite Deluxe 2 Cookie Contest

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I’ve been cruising around the country lately exploring new realms and visiting distant family. During the working part of my extended winter holiday, I had plans to prepare for the upcoming tax appointment, clean up my office, rotate inactive files to their next resting spot, and so on. At the top of my [...]

OS X - Updating with Ease

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Heading to Chicago today, and used my iPod on the way to the airport to catch up on the Kojo Mnamdi (whoa on spelling - that can’t be right!?)’ Tech Tuesday with the Computer Guys podcast.
A caller asked whether he should update his OS (caller was a PC user) to Vista or just [...]