I didn’t do well in High School, 2.2 grade point average. In fact, I fell asleep (often) in Math class. I started well, trying to pay attention. However, that didn’t last long. The droning of the teacher saying mindless facts, asking us to rote memorize them so we can parrot them back at test time…
No clicking of mouse, no typing of keyboard = not working. You are probably spacing out, not there or reading a blog article. Lots of typing = Not working. You are writing an email or instant messaging or typing a blog. (This is what I sound like now) Talking in a friendly voice = not working. You…
Last week a 20-year old took hundreds of rounds of ammunition in high density clips and a semi-automatic machine gun into an elementary school in Connecticut. He shot 26 people, mostly 6 year old kids. It’s senseless. It’s insane. It’s an act of mental illness, evil or both. The thing that really drives me nuts is…
Making a decision in a bad headspace is a bad idea. Frustrated Anxious Guilty Sad Angry Frantic / Hurried Fearful Distracted Passionate Hungry Ecstatic These emotions make your brain run hot. They take away valuable CPU power in decision-making. You want to be calm and collected when you make decisions. Cool heads make good decisions.…
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/biweekly Happening every two weeks. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly occurring twice a week occurring every two weeks fortnightly http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biweekly Occurring once every two weeks. Occurring twice a week Here is the bottom line: The prefix bi- applies to the week rather than to the events that occur, therefore giving the sense of “every two…
Microsoft has had a pretty rough time the last few years. Steve Jobs innovated like a mad genius and came up with the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. That’s alot of ground to cover and Microsoft has not been able to keep up. At best, they tread water. However, Steve Jobs is gone and I…
One day, if I have a hundred million dollars, I am going to fund the following initiative: The Do Your Job Proposition From now on, all California propositions, initiatives and ballot measures will have an additional choice besides Yes and No called “I Don’t Know”. If the measure does not receive 51% of the popular…
I have been trying lately to speed up the performance of my blog. Steps so far: Remove about 25 plugins I really didn’t need. Remove plugins from my wife’s and brother’s blogs Switch to the TwentyTwelve theme Still, I was getting CPU throttling from my host. It still wasn’t fast enough. I didn’t install a…
It’s such a pain to move to a new host. DNS changes. Import/Export of WordPress. Debugging. New security. Redirects. Let’s face it, it’s a huge hassle, so I need to have exhausted all my options. Despite the fact that I am pissed off at BlueHost for not having a faster server for me, I am…
I have been feeling for quite some that the performance of my blog was dragging. I just implemented a new plugin to do caching and it seems to help a little. However, the internal tool, where I type and do publishing is slow as well. Obviously, I want things to be speedy. For the last…
It’s like you are on camera 24/7. When do you have time to make a mistake? When can you daze off or pick your nose? When can you say to someone “You are an asshole”? and then come back later and say you are sorry? It’s a non-stop, never-make-a-mistake business. It’s amazing that people want…
Brain … drained … Dreamforce was it’s usual crazy self this year. Marketo was a Titanium sponsor so we had great space and neat perks. For instance, we got great tickets to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in San Francisco. Great show. In hindsight, I should have moved to the center of the stage,…
I started my blog by calling Bullshit on a fake marketing effort. (May 27, 1997) The blog post was called a diatribe by the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post and of course C|Net. I thought it was ridiculous to fake a hacking to get publicity. These days, fakery has become an art. Create a fake video…
I spent last week on a cruise from NYC to Florida to the Bahamas. I had never been on a cruise before, so this was a new experience for me. I “sailed” on the Norwegian Cruise Line Gem, seen below. The Good Many times, just being different is good. A cruise is unlike a “fly to a…