How not to remember customers
Today I received an email from Sony about buying a new Vaio computer. I bought one about 10 - 12 years ago when I...
Why can’t everything just be easier?
I was at Home Depot today and had to check myself out. I paid with a credit card and had to know that pressing...
Alliances can often be better than taking on the world alone
CNN recently announced that they are going to start offering a wire service to newspapers. Having experience working at a newspaper I know that...
Fix: sudo: port: command not found
I'm trying to setup Python 2.7 and SciPy and hit a major roadblock. I kept getting
sudo: port: command not found
On Mac OSX, I'm...
Missing the mark
I just saw a commercial by a local electronics company touting HD televisions.
The problem: the commercial wasn't in HD. So much for the great innovation...
Why are tires so boring?
Automobile tires have looked the same forever. Sure, the size, tread, quality and such have changed. But what we see hasn't. Tires are black....
DoubleUs Marketing — Really?
I love when companies make big claims but don't even do the things they claim they can on their own sites or with their...
How not to do a how to video
My son needed a science fair project. So we searched the web. We didn't actually know what we were searching for, we were just...
How to get Attribution for your Blog and know who is Copying your Work
Okay, it doesn't work perfectly, but ever wondered who is copying your work and what they are doing with it? Even worse, want to...
Why cool commercials won’t help Microsoft, but what could?
I don't think ads can change how consumers perceive a company. And that's why Jerry Seinfeld isn't going to save Microsoft's reputation with "cool...
