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Hashtags can be handy. Hashtags can be good. But in my first trip to the SXSW conference, ironically, I’m getting a first-hand view of when hashtags can go totally wrong. Someone decided it would be a great idea for every session to have a hashtag. OK, I get that. It makes it easy to see a [...]
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In the UK, children’s savings account are common. My kids have two of them there with different banks. Both came with special features designed to encourage them to save — a little plastic bank to sort their coins, for example, or a bonus on their interest. But here in the US, banks are apparently uninterested [...]
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There was no danger here in Newport Beach from the tsunami caused by the Chilean earthquake. That’s good, since local residents like ourselves got warning calls from the city an hour after the waves hit. But despite the thousands of miles, you could see them arrive and have an impact. The waves came just after noon [...]
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Forget Democrats and Republicans. There’s a different Blue State, Red State divide — that between which states have In-N-Out Burger locations and those that have Dunkin’ Donuts.
As you can see in the map above, much of the western half of the United States lacks Dunkin’ Donuts. Meanwhile, I constantly hear from visitors to California that [...]
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There are some people who really, really want my readers to know about various essay writing services that are available. I mean, they spam me with links constantly. So to save everyone time, I thought I’d just compile all their offers in one place. Back in November, someone by the name of “Essay Writers” posted to [...]
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Yesterday, I wrote about how I’d shifted from my Macbook to Windows 7. Today, my Sony laptop stopped working. No joke. I’m sorry, Steve Jobs, I repent. I’m back on my MacBook now. Please spare me any further wrath. My Windows 7 laptop is a Sony Vaio that I’ve had for nearly three years. As I [...]
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Back in December, I debated whether I should dump the Mac. As circumstances would have it, Apple itself kind of tipped me over to Windows 7, which I’m currently using. Whether I’ll go back to my MacBook remains to be seen. So far, Windows 7 is pretty compelling. Apple’s first mistake in pushing me away was [...]
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My 11 year old loves Arrested Development. He loves Lego. I guess it was inevitable the two would collide. He’s been busy constructing scenes from Arrested Development out of Lego. Here, Gob is about to make the yacht Lucille disappear:
Here, Gob is hanging out with one of the many girls of low self-esteem during Spring [...]
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Just a quick update from the work-side of my life. Our SMX West search engine marketing conference happens this March 2-4 in California. Working with my co-chair Chris Sherman, we’ve assembled over 50 sessions of search marketing goodness. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is also keynoting — his first time ever speaking at a search marketing conference! If [...]
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Today, I logged into Facebook and got a huge, honking message saying they needed my birthday as a “security measure.” Then I got a second overlay message popping up right on top of that to make clear I really needed to enter it. Color me confused. I thought Facebook already had my birthday. In fact, I [...]
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