Earlier this week I posted Bloggers, Quit Worrying About Spam, discussing what I felt was an over-focus on preventing spam in blog comments. I stand by that, but since that post the rate of spam being posted to my blog is up by a factor of 10 or more. Whether that’s because the spammers finally […]
Read more "Bloggers-Don’t Blog About Spam!"I don’t comment as often as I should on blog posts. I say should because as a blogger I know that it’s a bit of a treat to have someone post a comment, especially when you don’t know the person, or realize the person was reading what you wrote on a regular basis. Bloggers crave […]
Read more "Bloggers, Quit Worrying About Spam"I wrote Cheap Fun after buying a really cheap – $1 – wood airplane kit at the store for the kids. Amazing what manufacturers can do with a 9×12 piece of really thin plywood. We added glue, some minor head scratching around assembly, and of course the custom paint job!
Read more "SSC Editorial – Cheap Fun"NPR Baseball Driveway Moments ($15 @ Amazon) is an audio book I got from the local library to listen to on a long drive. It’s a series of short stories and interviews; some that are funny, some interesting, and some a little sad. A great interview with Yogi Berra and you get a sense of […]
Read more "Review: NPR Baseball Driveway Moments"I found The Literacy Project at Google after seeing a local op-ed piece about literacy. I love to read, a skill and passion that my parents contributed to by providing books, taking me to the library, and reading a lot themselves. It’s hard to imagine what my life would be without books, without being able […]
Read more "Literacy & Teaching"Not often I do plugs here, but then again, it’s rare that I just get first class service, so read on if you might ever need an attorney in Florida. I met Chris four years ago when it was time to sell our business. Some things you can DIY it on, selling a business across […]
Read more "My Favorite Attorney – Chris D’Amico"I wrote the editorial about great service after noticing a couple small but interesting customer service experiences during two trips. I’ve continued to think about it since writing it. It’s an obvious win, but not an easy win, or even obvious on how do achieve the win. How we figure that out? Maybe not complete, […]
Read more "SSC Editorial – Great Service"Back in 2007 when we started SQLSaturday we had the good luck to leverage an existing relationship between Seminole Community College and ONETUG, the local .Net user group. In other words, it just took some meetings and a few messages to get things going, it wasn’t the often months long search some cities go through. […]
Read more "Four Year IT Degree Approved for Seminole State College"Sometimes spending some time with your spouse watching TV is right up there with comfort food, the challenge is often finding something that you’ll both find interesting and relaxing. We watched West Wing when it was originally aired, and somewhere along the line acquired the entire set of DVD’s which sat on the shelf unused […]
Read more "Revisiting The West Wing"Years ago I was part of a heated discussion about the ability/inclination of a team I was on to build a requested feature. The ‘other team’ insisted on 100% accuracy, something that just wasn’t possible – a point we considered both obvious and easy to demonstrate, and we wanted to understand what to do in […]
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