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Archive for March, 2009

Previously on Battlestar Galactica…
*sigh* …Fridays without BSG? What am I supposed to do…get a life?
Anyway, I told you about a sudden demand for SEO article writing that is keeping me busy.
Now, I don’t have any particular philosophy on this kind of writing, I just have a method that works for me…practically, financially and [...]

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A brief post today, because it’s been that kind of week.
Last time I mentioned these lean, low-to-the-ground web design and development shops that I tend to partner up with. These guys get in, marshall their resources and then (to quote the Beastie Boys) they’re out, they’re gone, and they keep it on and on.  They [...]

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Sometimes I feel like my clients and I are straddling two eras of web development. By “my clients” I mean those hardworking designer/ developers who raise their clients’ websites up from the good rich soil of teh intarwebs.
And by “we are straddling” I mean HE’s straddling and I’m sitting on his shoulders, dangerously displacing his [...]

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The following rant is made possible by the fact that you can delete friends on Facebook without notifying them.
Sleepy Moon Guy: Keeps his browser open all day long, and sitting on Facebook.  Indicated by the sleepy blue sliver of a moon symbol next to his name.  Technically, he’s an “online friend,” but he lies in [...]

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Wednesday Weirdness

My sister found yesterday’s Photoshop masterpiece vaguely disturbing, and I had to agree. Neither one of us could quite put a finger on why, though.  Then, it came to me…as through a thick fog of distant yesterdays (you know, the kind they always had in the basement on That 70s Show?)

Frank Zappa: Subconciously inspiring blog [...]

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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi always left a little food on his plate at mealtime. His mother had warned him that “an empty plate equals a slow mongoose!”
I first read that Kipling story when I was 8 years old. To this day I am haunted by these questions: “Does a mongoose eat from a plate? Why is there a [...]

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It had to happen sooner or later.
Just the other day I was rifling through the pages of my site, seeing which pages need updating, which need to be cut, etc. I paused at the Article Writing/Business Blogging page and, as my index finger hovered over the Delete Page button, I began to reflect on that [...]

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The past ten days have been a fog.  A thick, mucous-y, Vick’s-Vapo-Rub-smelling fog. It started as a sinus infection  and morphed into a flu of the congestion/ fatigue/ weakness variety.
And this presented a new problem for me. The last time I was this sick, I was NOT terribly busy in the copywriting realm.  This time, [...]

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