I Lived 080808

Yes, today is 08 08 08. The most significant thing happening today is the 2008 Summer Olympic Games (link is to English version), being held in Beijing, China. Without trying to make some political statement, I'm pretty surprised more athletes or countries didn't refuse to participate. Does that mean something?A neighbor is getting married today....

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Modern Medicine Is Just Hot

Today's note will be fairly short. I just wanted to give a shout out to those in the medical profession. Tonight I watched an episode of Hopkins, a semi reality show about Doctors at John Hopkins Hospital. It's mind boggling what these Doctors are able to do. I have a Daughter who has been on the receiving end of their medical marvels.No matter how...

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Could This Be A Hot Solution To My Flickr Post Problem?

If you're a Flickr user, and want to post photos to your blog, you know there is no way to add categories or tags to the post. There could be a plug-in solution, but I couldn't find it. Seriously, I looked for a long time. If there is one that does what I'm proposing, please let me know and I will update this post and back out what I've done.This...

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Book Review: It's Your Ship

My personal trainer recommended a book the other day called It's Your Ship, by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff. As a former United States Marine, I try and read leadership books written by those who served in the military. I connect with them. I understand their leadership styles and I always learn something.Leadership comes in many forms. Good leaders...

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CouchCast With Comasts Frank Eliason

Join us as we interview Frank Eliason, Digital Care Manager at Comcast on how he started something of a phenomenon using Twitter to help people with their Comcast challenges, under the name @comcastcares.When discussing his experience with social networks, Frank notes that Twittering about people’s fragged modems at work wasn’t the first exposure...

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Writers Symposium Ezine Is Hot

Utah author Paul Genesse and friends, put out a great ezine, about once a quarter. This is for writers, by writers. Why is it hot? Let me tell you.Paul rocks at providing assistance to other writers. He has a good mix of contributors, and the content is always refreshing. In the latest edition he covers GenCon, pegged as "The Best Four Days In Gaming"....

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Learning The Value Of A Hot Story

Today was Breaking Dawn day. One of the hottest days in the book business. A day that compares to a Harry Potter day. Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, released book four today. Just to give you an idea the number of people who wanted to stand in line to get a copy, my wrist band said number 800, and that was just at one book store.Needless...

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One Hot August Day

It's August 1st. We are in the dog days of summer. The time where you're just about fed up with hot weather, and ready for the fall cool down to happen. Not to mention you're ready for the kids to go back to school. Pools are your best friend, and you get up early just to go for a runNaBloPoMo theme for August is HOT. So, I'll be writing post about...

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Facebook Alters Beacon System

Changing the way Facebook handles the Beacon system was inevitable based in user concern. While they are trying to calm the waters with this change, they still need to take a few more steps. At the very least they need to provide a page of companies using the Beacon system and let Facebook users choose who they want to share data with. This is what...

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Utah Geek/Blogger Dinner Tonight

Tonight is the Utah Geek/Blogger dinner at Sampan at the Southtowne Mall in Sandy. Here is a link to the detail...

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Backing Up Your Trusted System

I'm finding that most people never think twice about backing up the things they write in a notebook. They feel secure in the fact you can't break a notebook. This gives them a false sense of security. You can just as easily lose your analog trusted system as you can a digital one.I spent some time last night and today searching for someone who had...

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My Moleskine Crashed Hard

Have you ever discovered something so horrific that you nearly threw up on the spot? That happened to me today. Every once in a while I take public transit to my office away from home. Today was one of those days. I hastily put everything in my backpack and ran out the door to catch the bus. Somewhere between my office door and the bus, all of the...

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Great Links From The Past Week

Here are some great links I came across from the previous week: Russell Beattie writes eBooks need more contrast to take off Chris Brogan says Passion Drives Personal Brand Pam at Escape from Cubical Nation asks Do you have to have an interesting life to use Twitter? 52 Novels asks Could something like TechStars work for novelists? (I am so on board with this idea) Mark Cuban writes Do Blog Comments Have Value? Zen Habits writes Obsessive- Compulsive’s Guide: Top 12 Organizing Tips, Plus Resourc...

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Surround Yourself With Winners

A good friend sends out a weekly email about improving sales skills. One of the reasons I like reading his advise are the questions he asks at the end. Most of the time they are interpersonal questions. But today, her wrote this:Educating the world is not your job. Go find some smart people and do some business with them.Several years ago a mentor told me this "If you want to be making a million dollars a year, why aren't you surrounding yourself with people who are?" The point I think he was trying to make, and the one my...

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Props To My Peeps

This weeks prop goes out to my Sister-In-Law, who held Thanksgiving dinner at her house. I know the amount of work that goes into putting on a production like this. Everyone had a great time. Past prop...

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Do You Know What Facebook’s Beacon Project Is?

I really don't like this Project Beacon from Facebook. Even though I spend time developing applications that use services like Facebook, this one is personal. Take for instance these entries from the main user feed in Facebook:While I appreciate the ability to advertisers to make connections with customers and their social networks, people have to...

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WordPress Plug-ins I Use And Why

My WordPress blog uses several plug-ins, and I thought I would share with you what they are and why I use them. Akismet: Comment spam prevention. This is an essential plug-in for any blog. All in One SEO Pack: This plug-in helps me build SEO friendly links. Comment Referrers: This give me additional information when someone posts a comment. Its sent to me via the notification email and doesn't appear any where on the blog. Comment Timeout: I use this to lock comments on posts so many days after I post them. ...

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Let us spend the day reflecting, with family and friends; laughing and eating together. I'm thankful for my health and family. I'm thankful for being able to live in a Country that allows me to do and be what I want. However you spend your Thanksgiving day, please remember a few things: Our Military friends, no matter where they are, keeping...

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American Girl Is The Perfect Lovemark

I'm sitting here watching Oprah with my daughter. I hardly ever watch Oprah, but this particular episode she was spotlighting a company called American Girl. If you own a company you would be doing your customers a disservice, if you didn't spend as much time as you can, learning how American Girl is a true Lovemark. Dolls are big business and American Girl seems to have taken it to a whole new level. I'm learning the lengths this company is going to create a life long customer. Here are some examples: Each doll comes...

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Track of the day: The Pop Soul Jazz Funk Love Shuffle by Centre Line

Centre Line "The Pop Soul Jazz Funk Love Shuffle" (mp3)from "Centre Line"(Caprimusic / GLP) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Alb...

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