Quotations
Chances
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.Julia Soul
Month: July 2008
Humor
Guess what this is?
Answer — at the endJail in Austriavia email from Greg Merth, Wed, 2 Jul 2008 04:53:09 -0700
Waste Time
Waste time
I’ll be honest with you, I love Jesus, but I drink a little bit…. Gladys tells it like it isSpicy language (about language) from the late, great George CarlinIf you missed ’em, several years of […]
General
P & G — Serving your needs since 1837
The article includes a case study of Febreze, a furniture spray that almost failed until Procter & Gamble figured out how to manipulate customers into making it part of their daily routine. Great quote from […]
Quotations
Patriotism
A defense of patriotism is an attack on the Enlightenment; a defense of all group phenomena related or analogous to patriotism is also an attack on the Enlightenment.George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes, page 4
Computer
SharePoint 2003
I was just looking for a list item in SharePoint by searching for an item id in a list, which though displayed, cannot be found by the built in search… Then I realized that this […]
General
Self service
In reading Michael Saine’s column in the August DDJ today he talks about Marshall McLuhan’s forecast that “The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself’.” Quite timely since I […]