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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My eldest son and daughter went job hunting together yesterday, and as these things sometimes go, they ran late. They started late in the day, and eventually decided to stop for something to eat at the mall. Being young [...]

In my last post I mentioned that a blog, or weblog, was intended to be primarily an online journal. That statement has been sitting in my mind for the bulk of the day, niggling away at me until I decided to pay closer attention to it. I must now recant my earlier statement, at least [...]

Yesterday the ol’ computer started making an awful racket. If you’ve ever heard a fan that has become unbalanced, you will now the noise that I’m talking about. Regardless, it was something that I had to fix, and quickly. A broken fan leads to heat buildup, and heat buildup can lead to a dead computer. [...]

My Dad started teaching me how to play chess when I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old. The game rapidly became a daily feature of my life, usually in the form of a “best 2 out of 3″ match. Dad was never the sort of guy to just “let” someone win, even if they [...]

I’ve been looking at various email providers for a newsletter I want to start, and as of today, Aweber is the big winner. Why? Because they can read my mind, that’s why. I started out by looking at a variety of free options, but quickly discounted them for the simple reason that they couldn’t do [...]

I’ve been thinking lately about offline marketing for online properties, so with that in mind I went to VistaPrint Canada today to order some business cards. Now I have visited them before, but it’s been a while, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that they do far more than just business cards. Their offerings [...]

It’s an annual event called the “Summer Slump”, though event may not be the best term for it. it refers to the annual drop in blog traffic taht occurs over the summer months, and plagues most bloggers no end.

Through a series of events and circumstances that I am not going to pretend to understand, I was contacted by Rena requesting an interview with moi… she specifically wanted to interview me about my experiences and involvement with Blogcatalog. I found this rather curious,as I am not what you might call a BC power user. [...]

Social networking has really taken off in a big way, with new sites cropping up in every market and niche imaginable, and established companies incorporating Web 2.0 strategies into their existing sites. For example, suppose you wanted to search for Nantucket vacation rentals. You might choose to go to WeNeedAVacation.com to find that perfect vacation [...]

I was down at the mall today, doing a little household shopping. If you’ve ever been to a mall on a Saturday, you know how busy it is. Deciding that a little snack was in order, I wandered over to the food court, and grabbed something to munch on. Spying no empty tables, I asked [...]