On Wednesday this week I bought a iMac. On Thursday, Apple Canada finally started the promotion that Apple USA has been doing for a week or more: free iPod Nano with the purchase of a Mac.
Oh sh*t, I thought.
Apple never, never bends the rules to let you get a discount or advertised bennie after […]

The cups are against me. Posting volume is down, and is not likely to improve for a while.
First of all, there’s the Stanley Cup. Then there’s the World Cup. And then there’s my cup, which by now is busily runneth-ing over.
Ice hockey is the best sport in the world, bar none. So that’s got first […]

Nicholas Carr recently posted an article about corporate bloggers and risk. If high-profile people like Robert Scoble leave, what does that do to the company?
(His comments on Roughtype are screwed up, so I’m posting this here.)
Among other things, he said:

So Microsoft’s self-styled human face is now some other company’s human face. This must be the […]

OK. I admit it. I’ve never posted something for sale on eBay.
I signed up - of course - about 5 years ago, maybe. I’m one of those 53,651 that signs up for everything and uses virtually nothing. Well, I do use Writely and Gmail and, hmm, a couple of other services.
But in any case, today […]

Life has been extremely busy and draining for me lately - especially work.
So it’s nice to have Akismet on the blog comment-spam case. Just from the weekend, it caught 514 comment spams … so I didn’t have to. If you don’t have Akismet, and you blog, you need it.
(If you allow comments, that is. Whether […]

My company has just had an all-hands-on-deck call for help in a certain department due to a huge onslaught of orders, so I, our Director of Marketing, and many others have volunteered a few days of our time to help.
After a day of doing incredibly repetititive and fairly mind-numbing work, I now better understand the […]

Is there anyone out there with a Writely account and a spare invite?
Writely has not been accepting new accounts for over a month - every since they were bought by Google - and won’t be for another month, and I’ve been dying to try the service and also have a place to store/create/search some of […]

If you’re involved in any kind of product development or marketing (and who isn’t in one or the other or both), don’t miss this post on the delight and magic of the familiar transposed into unexpected environments.
Wondering how to apply it to stuff I’m working on …
Tags: kathy sierra, passionate users, unexpected, […]

In our still-politically-correct values-neutral society where we’re ever so afraid of saying something that someone, anyone, might even just possibly get offended at, could we at least stop using the silly, silly term controlled substances?
Could we please just say drugs? Would that be OK?
George Orwell must be turning in his grave these days. As he […]

Blogger appears to be sucking very hard lately …
I only know this because I read Tara Hunt’s