I was tempted to wander around rhetorically for a few paragraphs talking about how to make choices about which nonprofits to support when you’re a nonprofit consultant, do you go with your beliefs, support your friends, or do you try to get leads, etc etc. But, that’s kind of dumb because the rad people running [...]
No, that title doesn’t connect to anything. I just wanted to reference the ouevre of Monty Python. But, I did hire a professional accountant for the first time this year. You might say it was a foregone conclusion after having to redo my own taxes for three of the past four years. Plus, in 2008 [...]
I attended the Austin Twestival last night; it seemed to come off successfully though I did not stay until the end. A lot of people showed up – Ace’s Lounge did not look at all empty by 9pm and the crowd only thickened thereafter. I had the honor of locking horns with @aaronmsb [...]
I’m going to bloom into a perfect old dude someday, because even now, I only adopt new things with a fair measure of grumbling and wariness. To wit, I made fun of Twitter for months – mainly with references to ‘Twits’ instead of Tweets – before being shamed into accepting it at my first Austin [...]
As stereotypes go, technical people aren’t supposed to like salespeople and vice versa. Salespeople are pushy, unethical buffoons while technical people are obstinant, socially crippled ninnies. Both camps contribute a great deal to their images, of course.
I’d like to hone in on a few things I’ve noticed over the years (and again quite [...]
