If the Internet is an electronic frontier, spammers are cattle rustlers on the electronic frontier.
August 30, 2007
Electronic Frontier
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Archive for August, 2007
August 29, 2007
Photos of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
Last week my wife and I traveled through Virginia and West Virginia on vacation. Here are the photos taken early in the morning in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, outside Staunton. A beautiful sunrise, a small farm one hill away, mountains everywhere.
Select the photo to see the entire collection.
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August 28, 2007
Re: Elephant Math: It takes some time
Seth Godin points out while discussing viral campaigns “If Darwin’s elephants managed to squeeze in just one more generation, they end up with 30 million.” (Elephant Math)
I can think of two examples where someone gave “one more generation” to their product.
Brandon Tartikoff gave the show Cheers several seasons to find its following. The final episode [...]
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August 28, 2007
Lunar Eclipse Photos
I got up this morning at 4:30 to view a total lunar eclipse. I glanced out the window, and the moon was looking nice, a few clouds, but the moon wasn’t obstructed. I get dressed, find the camera, and go outside. Tons of clouds rolled in. The eclipse started at 4:51, and I couldn’t see [...]
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August 26, 2007
Unclutter Your Life
For a few months now, I’ve been reading the Unclutterer blog. Unclutterer is the blog about getting and staying organized.
I am using one of the unclutterer’s hints: doing it in small steps: After yesterday’s laundry (socks, underwear and t-shirts) was done, after sorting and folding, but before actually putting them away I opened each drawer [...]
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August 10, 2007
Chase the Lion!
Is there something in your life that seems too big to handle? Something you want to change, but just can’t get started? Read 2 Samuel 23:20-21 “Benaiah chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed it.” Mark Batterson wrote a book around this [...]
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August 7, 2007
Vistaprint Still Sucks
So, three and a half months after “closing” my account with Vistaprint (see Vistaprint sucks for details) guess what I got in the postal mail today? Junk mail from some loser motivation speaker series addressed to me with my tagged postal address. I always give a unique shipping address to companies I order stuff from. [...]
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August 5, 2007
Traffic Analysis from Blogathon Weekend
I’ve looked at the basic reports that Google Analytics can give. My web site traffic for last weekend, the weekend of Blogathon, increased a little bit. Here are some snappy charts.
This chart shows all pages on my site. I have no idea what the huge bump is at the beginning of July, I definitely need [...]