Category Archives: Economy

Getting Robbed in a Foreign Country

July 23, 2008 – 10:13 pm

I have a former employee at my current church who quit working for us to go on a one-year round the world missions excursion on a bare bones budget. Read his commentary on this trip blog.
The crazy news is that he was robbed at gunpoint in Johannesburg last night and all his possessions were [...]

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Grandmother 2.0

March 26, 2008 – 10:06 am

(Mom, I know you are reading this, but I just had to blog this.)
So while laying in the bath (don’t picture it) catching up on my email on my iPhone this morning I get this from my Skype-friendly mother:
>> I noticed that your location on Twitter is still Frisco. I enjoy
>> reading it. Did you [...]

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Why Netflix Gets It and Blockbuster Does Not

February 23, 2007 – 10:41 am

So I attempted to cancel my Blockbuster.com subscription a few moments ago because of a bad experience, and had to fill out a survey to get it done. There was a comment field where they asked “How Can We Improve? Would you mind taking a minute to explain why you’ve decided to cancel your account?” [...]

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On Mercenary Killings and the Love of Hunting

September 22, 2006 – 10:05 am

If you know me, you know it is time for the beard. The beard is the annual signal to friends and family that it is now hunting season. This is that time of year when men, women, and children all over the US prepare to hunt the warm-blooded beauty of God’s creation, the white-tailed deer. [...]

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YouTube - Day of the Longtail

July 31, 2006 – 1:47 pm

Day of the Longtail - This video gives a bit of an overview of the struggles the media and entertainment giants are having with the community of bloggers. The “Longtail” itself as a term has been around awhile and the statistical phenom probably since the beginning of time.
Wikipedia Has this:
The phrase The Long Tail, as [...]

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Running small teams… a different philosophy

June 26, 2006 – 3:24 pm

Jason Fried Video
A plenary address at the Collaborative Technologies Conference on Tuesday was delivered by Jason Fried, the CEO of 37Signals. His lecture was titled, “Small Is Beautiful.” Here’s the lecture, in its entirety.
I am not a huge fan of Jason Fried in particular (has made some real blunders when commenting on his and [...]

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What makes me sick

June 20, 2006 – 3:18 pm

What makes me sick are oil company executives who justify their criminal profits by saying America has it good compared to other countries and that high fuel prices help curb demand. In the movie Failure to Launch How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days there is a really cute part where the two stars [...]

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