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Beware what you blog about

August 18th, 2006 WTF?

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…

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Guy Kawasaki on Getting a Job

August 17th, 2006 Job Wanted

Yesterday I added a comment to my lengthy posting about looking for a job online linking to an interview Guy Kawasaki conducted with Libby Sartain a senior HR person at Yahoo! Today Guy shows how he would apply to an actual position at Yahoo! in the form of a cover letter and two sample resumes…

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Writing for your Future Boss

August 16th, 2006 Jakob Nielsen

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…

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Veoh

August 14th, 2006 Social Media Icons

So one of my Google Alerts I created turned up a link to a video in Veoh. Veoh is very similar to YouTube but with some features from MySpace/Friendster thrown in. It also has some elements that reminded me of my brief experimentation with BitTorrent…

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BarBQ Ribs

August 13th, 2006 Ribs

I’ve done a lot of BarBQ’ing in my time. Just the other day I had to cook forty five hamburgers for a party my mom threw. When you start cooking more meat than you can fit on a grill at one time it ceases to be a hobby and becomes a job…

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