Archive for October, 2006

vvaaccuumm

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

There are a couple of words in the English language that I just can’t seem to spell correctly. Over and over, after 30 years of practice with writing, my brain just won’t learn.
Sentence Sentance
Separated Seperated
Vacuum Vacumm or Vaccum
Weird Wierd (stoopid I before E…)
This is a different issue from my lack of ability to […]

Flog: A Word Is Worth a Coin

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Clog.
Blog.
Flog.
Splog.
Chlog (cheese log — patent pending).
No one gives props to Mr. Merholz anymore for first writing “blog.” I guess it doesn’t matter much anymore. “Blog” has become so ubiquitous that it just doesn’t matter about the who; it’s now all about the what. I am sure the person who came up with […]

The Power of Reblogging

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Brandon Meek just took advantage of the “easy reblogging” addendum I made on one of my last posts on Business Logs.
I had written up a dripping-with-sarcasm post called 10 Tips to Better Blogging and added a section at the bottom, repleat with spelling error (yeah, “error”), that I felt would make it easier for others […]

Shout Out — The Modern Thank You

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Just a quick shout out to Colin Devroe, one of the Uber Geeks, for helping me fix the issue I was having with switching to “clean” URLs. Which I now have.
On top of requesting that sites Go Pink for October, I’d like to request more thank-yous going out via blogs. I’ll start:
Thanks, Colin! […]