I just received this in my mailbox: That really, really looks like a virus infiltration attempt. Which is amazing, because although I’ve seen many of those, they always end in a .exe or some such Windows extension. This is the first I’ve seen targeted for Mac. A quick google reveals that Flip4Mac, which is...
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Was just checking out Roger van Oech’s site creativethink via a Scoble story and saw this great Kurt Vonnegut quote: Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without...
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I get Perry Marshall’s AdWords/marketing email newsletters. Today’s had a section on entrepreneurs versus wanna-bes that I thought was really, really good: Wanna-be’s obsess about ideas. Entrepreneurs obsess about implementation. Wanna-be’s want more web traffic. Enrepreneurs focus on sales conversion. Wanna-be’s focus on positive thinking. Entrepreneurs plan for multiple contingencies. Wanna-be’s want to get...
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Last week I finished up almost a month’s intensive investigation, analysis, synthesis, and creation, and planning. We have a major product family that needed a huge refresh. The product manager for that line was transferred elsewhere in the company … and I got the file 3 weeks before a executive meeting in which I...
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OK, my blog is my memory, which means that you, dear reader, get treated to gems like this: If you want to be interesting, don’t talk about yourself. Amen. That’s from Hugh at GapingVoid, and when I re-read it today, I wanted to remember it. So I posted it. Very...
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Yesterday I bought a new camcorder – the Sony DCR-SR82 with a 60 GB hard drive. Today I shot some video, and tonight I tried to hook it up to my Mac and play in iMovie HD. No such luck. Sony wants you to use their proprietary software … which is Windows only Sony...
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Ever felt like the car salesman was taking you for a test-drive before you even got to touch the car? I need a new car fairly quickly, and a Mini Cooper S is at the top of my list. Unfortunately, yesterday I had the worst car-shopping experience of my life at Affinity Auto in...
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If every page starts to look like this, we’re in big, big trouble. All those links are fake links – ad links … what I’m going to call adlinks. This particular bit on nonsense is featured on /Film’s Indiana Jones story. They don’t actually go anywhere that you might think they do, they’re only...
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I love fortuitous mispellings. Someone at Trendhunter, a social trend-following site, posted the following: the future solider will be equipped with “intelligent amour, which remains light and flexible until it senses an approaching bullet, then tenses to become bulletproof.” I like that – intelligent amour. This is ironic on so many levels. funny,...
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This past Easter we, naturally, had an easter egg hunt. Each of the kids had a chance to hide the eggs and let the others find them. And Gabrielle, being the creative girl she is, had to make it more interesting … with clues. Here they are … Hrm …. in the library? Outside?!?...
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Chris Forde, a documentary filmmaker, is doing a movie on Paddle to the Amazon … the longest canoe journey ever. I’m interested in this because I read and reviewed the book Paddle to the Amazon, which is the amazing story of Don Starkell and his son Dana, who paddled from their home in Winnipeg,...
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It appears that there are some downfalls to any centralized service … including an identity management tool: openID, bugs, identity2.0, identity, john koetsier
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Why doesn’t anybody sell flowers and chocolate? I need a few gifts for co-workers who are really doing an amazing job. I was thinking flowers and a box of fine chocolates. Why do I have to go to two different stores to do that? Someone should sell both. I think they’d make a killing....
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Advertising this good deserves recognition: This is marketing from people who have read the Cluetrain. This is marketing from people who give a damn. This is marketing from people who are having fun. If all advertising was this good you wouldn’t need to skip commercials. ad, advertising, kodak, kodak moment, guts, marketing, john...
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