Villains of Stickiness
In the book Made To Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath the authors do an excellent job of outlining ways to make concepts “stick.” Here I have transcribed the “villains” of stickiness from the back of the book. This is excellent to keep in mind…
VILLAINS OF STICKINESS
1. DON’T [...] Continue Reading…
Why 1and1 deleted one of my domains
Let me start by saying that I like 1and1 for my hosting. It’s pretty much no fuss/no muss hosting that’s easy to set up and easy to manage. I have no plans to move and all of my clients and my stuff currently resides on 1and1. So now with [...] Continue Reading…
to iPad or not to iPad
The other day I was asked if I was going to buy an iPad. Here was my response.
What I’m looking for now is an ebook reader…like the Kindle. The reading experience on the iPad looks to be better. The joojoo is another story altogether as that device used to [...] Continue Reading…
What is a good CMS?
Someone on Linkedin asked this question the other day. Here was my response…
I’ve had my eyes on http://www.squarespace.com/ for some time now. Their UI is interesting, scalable traffic, nice tools…i’ve not yet built an entire site in it however. I have heard good things about them from other people.
Wordpress [...] Continue Reading…
I have no class
Back in 1990 when I was at Temple the teachers went on strike. When this happened I got the brainstorm to sell a shirt that read “I have no class”.
I sold 250 shirts. A photo of me circulated the AP wire and I just found it again. Holy blast [...] Continue Reading…
two stupid people get married
Two stupid people get married.
The night of their honeymoon they are lying in bed trying to make love.
The guy can’t figure out what to do.
Finally his stupid wife says:
“Harry, just take the thing that you play with all the time out and put it where I pee.”
So [...] Continue Reading…
I’ve had some time to think about your questions about religion. These questions you asked are those of maturing intelligence and it pleases me greatly to see you growing so.
Understanding where you stand on religion, or in your belief in something greater than yourself, is very important in your [...] Continue Reading…
iDrunk
Vodka + Jacuzzi + iPod = dead iPod
Do Not Disturb
I picked up this joke somewhere…
An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city. Upon their arrival, the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.
The next morning, as [...] Continue Reading…
VMWare fusion hard reboot
For those times when NOTHING will restart your VMWare Win XP machine… This is the equivalent of reaching around and pulling the power cord out of the wall:
Open the Virtual Machine menu, then hold down the Option key to change “Shut Down Guest” to “Power Off”.
