Even if you’re only getting 10-20 visitors per day, you should still be getting a comment every now and again. I’ve seen blogs with only 100 subscribers average 5-10 comments on every post. If you’re not getting any communication from your readers at all, then you’ve probably picked a topic that no one cares about [...]
The site promises to deliver some utility you (or an unsuspecting member of your family) might find useful – perhaps it’s a collection of new smiley-faces to be included in chat, perhaps it’s an cartoon engine for creating cutesy avatars… whatever it is, it apparently includes a healthy dose of eyes-glazing-over legalese before it happily [...]
fundiemental Multiple pronunciations: \fun-DEE-men-tal\, \fun-DIE-men-tal\, \fun-dee-MEN-tal\, \fun-DEE-mon-tal\, noun Definition: Any follower of a religious sect who professes significant faith in the teachings of his or her religious sect but whose actions fail to coincide with the core doctrines of the religious sect and, often, the prevailing inclinations of human beings to avoid injury and prevarication. [...]
As reported at the Brad Blog, Lexington 18 News, and Matt Blaze’s Exhaustive Search (where I happened upon it), a case has been made against election officials in Kentucky. They are accused of altering votes attempted on an electronic voting machine. Their technique exploited the weakest link in the electronic voting security chain: both usability [...]
Those who cannot do, manage. Those who cannot manage, teach. Those who cannot teach, do (poorly). Take a look around – chances are that you are either capable, in middle management, a teacher, and/or useless.
Which aspects of my social media profile suggested that any of the following advertisements would appeal to me? OBEY says it all. Flash-back to They Live: I find this ad redundantly misguided, though humorous (not so much so if one’s mate is stupid enough to believe the tripe they’re peddling, however). No, thanks. Is it [...]
Ten myths regarding information seeking: Only “objective” information is valuable More information is always better Objective information can be transmitted out of context Information can only be acquired through formal sources There is relevant information for every need Every need situation has a solution It is always possible to make information available or accessible Functional [...]
Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down. … Items on sale at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a [...]
The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you’ve lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at [...]
Do you believe everything you know? Do you know everything you hold as a belief? We are forced to take irrelevant factoids for granted and start buying into other peoples’ ideas, sooner or later – how much we have left of ourselves at the end of the day is a testament only to our perseverance. [...]
