I’ve heard it said that jazz = blues + improvisation. It’s the same with a career (well, almost: no guitars).
While a few people are lucky enough to have a single job that lasts for life, the rest of us can enjoy the adventure of a changing career: shifting from job to job, adjusting skills and [...]
Amy Mahon asks:
Why do clients ask for “clean and modern” when really they mean “cluttered and busy”?
The trouble with website design or development clients is that they lack the perspective of an ordinary website user. Clients will usually forget that users have looked at several website before the client’s site: they make the mistake of [...]
Facebook has recently broken even, and Twitter is on record as having some interesting plans for making money from their service. I don’t know what those plans are, but I think Twitter is in a really good position to make money from their service.
What Not To Do
Twitter has become very popular, pretty fast, because they [...]
“Django is better than Rails”
What do you think (and why)? Leave a comment!
Estate agents seem to have a deep desire to bullshit about everything. Here’s the description for a property that I picked at random:
A two bedroom semi-detached cottage superbly refurbished throughout.
Old, but with new paint. Property was, until recently, a barn.
The property offers attractive and comfortable openplan living
The property is small. There is a TV in [...]
The Beatles started off very simple: two guitars, one bass, drums (sound familiar?). And yet they managed to hit the zeitgeist square on the nose — even, maybe, to define it. They also worked very, very hard to polish their craft with very little in the way of modern studio technology.
The band’s early live performances [...]
Linda Carty is a fifty-year-old lady with British citizenship who’s on death row in the US. This from the BBC:
Carty, 50, was sentenced to death in 2002 for her part in abducting and killing a 25-year-old woman, but claims she was framed.
Regardless of whether she’s guilty or not, capital punishment is one of the most [...]
That I should even be writing this is a mark of the way email can take over one’s life. But it does, and not just because people are emailing us all the time, but because we love the little buzz of attention and (sometimes) accomplishment that answering emails gives us (and, I think, we have [...]
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