Thanksgiving is many circles of Love

Each year at Thanksgiving, the photos I took at a 2005 Thanksgiving at my brother’s house appear in a few publications around the world. I titled it “Thanksgiving is many circles of Love” and you can see it below, but each square has a story appended...

New Business Card…Your Thoughts?

UPDATES at bottom of post. I’m creating a business card for my wife’s company and would love any feedback. Here’s what the latest iteration looks like: I very much welcome your suggestions or comments! I’m leaving a blank space in the lower...

Why Wesabe really lost to Mint

Reading the story “Why Wesabe Lost to Mint” made it seem the co-founder didn’t realize that business survival in and of itself was an opportunity for them. He states “we were not far off from supporting a small company indefinitely on...

What caused Wikipedia’s decline?

Newsweek this week published “Take This Blog and Shove It!” saying that “Crowd Sourcing Loses Steam” and wondering why people didn’t want to edit Wikipedia anymore. They attributed it, among other things, to laziness. Blogging is down...

How wide should your website be?

Apple.com uses a content width of 984. I didn’t know that until after I wrote this post, but I came to about the the same conclusion. Read on to find out why… Simple statistics… Of visitors to websites in mid-2010 (source): A quarter (24.3%) were using a...

A summary of the Thesis for WordPress legal saga and outcome

UPDATE 4. The former thesis business partner Brian Clark has joined forces with a different WordPress theme framework, StudioPress. UPDATE 3. Well, everything has changed. Here’s a quote from the founder of WordPress. Thesis has done the bare minimum not to be...

Why we sold our iPad

Updates: I later purchased an HP Touchpad for $99, and much later, an iPad mini. “So, you’re an early adopter.” I heard this far too many times when people found out my wife and I bought an iPad. A partial inference being we were willing to accept...