January 2008
7 posts
Book Short: A Must Read Every once in a while, I read a book and think, “This is an important book.” Microtrends, by Mark Penn, was just that kind of read. Penn is the CEO of one of our largest clients in the market research business as well as CEO of Burson Marstellar and, more notably, the Clintons’ pollster and strategy director for much of the last 16 years. He’s...
Honestly, Why Bother? We have a small competitor who has, on and off over the years (they just re-did it) blocked access to their corporate web site from one of our offices. Like we can’t see it from our other offices or from home or from wireless air cards sitting in our offices. Honestly, why would you bother going to that trouble just to irk a competitor? I guess I’m glad...
Are You As Versatile As Running? Today was my first day back in the city after two weeks working and playing at our house in the mountains. And a beautiful day it was — 46 and sunny! I went for a great run, reflecting on how incredibly versatile running is. Less than 48 hours before, I had also been running, but bundled up, in a 17 degree snowfall, wearing my new Icebugs (thanks for the...
Mail Fusion For 8 or 9 years now, we haven’t received a single bill by U.S. mail. We use PayTrust (originally PayMyBills.com) for “online” bill pay. We have a P.O. Box somewhere in South Dakota that we’ve redirected all our bills to. The bills get opened, scanned, we get an email, we enter in a payment amount and date. No fuss, no muss. PayTrust even figures out...
It’s Copyright Time Brad must be off his game this year, so…time to update all those copyrights to say 2008. Or as Brad gently suggested last year, make that field variable so you never have to worry about it again! (Thanks to our CTO Andy Sautins for the reminder here.)
Bad Side Effect of Tropical Heat Waves? I love David Kirkpatrick’s weekly column called Fast Forward. In his most recent edition, he talks about the connection between technology and world peace, which is insightful. But it also led me to click on a link in the first paragraph to Wikipedia and its great map and listing of ongoing global conflicts here. I’m not sure if anyone has...