I actually got the idea behind these photos from something I saw over at Blackmoor.ca. Angela Imrie, an excellent female miniature painter from Calgary Alberta, took a picture of one of her miniatures positioned beside a quarter, no a US penny…

You can’t control what other people say or think about you, so online there is always potential for less than flattering information turning up in a Google search conducted by your future boss. Rather than worrying about what you can’t control you can be more proactive by publishing online yourself…

It’s my own fault I suppose, but how could I know? I should have left well enough alone, never mentioned it again, but I didn’t. I went and linked to it again and I believe it has been re-aired on the Discovery Channel more than once, now “The Man Whose Arms Exploded” completely dominates my search engine referrals…

Jakob Nielsen’s advice on blogging holds up pretty well with the passage of time. Jakob Nielsen is considered by many to be the guru on website usability. He can also come across as dogmatic and unwilling to compromise or to allow for artistic creativity. I prefer Steve Krug and his book. None the less, I tried to incorporate Jokob’s advice and to that end added a picture of myself in the sidebar when he originally advocated it. However it is his night point which inspired this blog post…

While making the rounds through my RSS feeds I read at China Venture News how there are 5 million bloggers in China now but they expect 60 million by the end of 2006. This rapid growth is in spite of some governmental policies to restrict the freedom of information in China, particularly the Great Firewall of China…