Super Bowl Sunday provided as good a game as can be played without the Eagles, and that in-game excitement helped to bail out the very lackluster crop of ads. Here I give out awards to the ones that were notable IMHO:
We’re Crashing the Party Award – Cash 4 Gold
I was thinking this was going… [more]

I think if more systems architects sat down with their customer service teams. One thing they would note is that the representative is not always going to get the full transaction in one take. Sometimes, they will need to follow up a few days later or in the case of a dropped call, a few… [more]

All too frequently, web designers work alone, making it is difficult to know if your experiences and careers are standard or extreme. A List Apart tries to help illuminate the career of the web designer with their survey. Here are the 2007 results. You can see how rich this survey can be.

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Today I was asked by my book club to join GoodReads. Trying to circumvent the tedium that is part of new membership, (having to enter in every book I ever read), I turned to Facebook. I had already gone through the mind-numbing exercise of finding past readings with iRead, the Facebook application, so… [more]

At first I thought I was just noticing the as the new Google favicon because it’s a letter found twice in my name and I have a heightened awareness of it. But two days later, I am realizing it is not me, well, certainly not just me. The web is aflutter with posts and… [more]

Listen, Facebook, we have to talk.

We have a lot of fun together. We go through photos, play scrabble, chat with friends, its great. But lately I’ve started to see a side to you that I’m finding rather aggressive. I am speaking specifically about your new “People You May Know” area on the… [more]

At work I got an email saying that my Outlook inbox was over the allotted bandwidth. I was shocked, (not “how-can-this-be” shock, because I save everything so I did not doubt I did indeed reach the allocation level) because we had an allocation level that I was able to reach. I look to… [more]

As we get closer to the holidays and the shopping gets crazy and tensions get higher, it is important to step back and remember that it’s really all about being together, like Chewbacca reuniting with his family for Life Day, and enjoying the times we share, like Bea Arthur and Snaggletooth at the Cantina bar… [more]

Editors can be so easily overlooked when talking about creative types. It is often forgotten that amidst the scanning for spelling or punctuation errors, they have to creatively synopize and sell the article in only a handful of words.

I really enjoyed this article headline from The Motley Fool (circled below), it made me… [more]