Ditto to what James said.
Ditto to what James said.
My wife is a year and 4 months older than me....and she seems happy enough...I know I am!
1. Feedburner.
2. march = 74, prior to that, I was in the mid to high 40s.
3. avg is under 600 (yes I know that's weak...but two months ago was over 600 and last month was over 700, FWIW). http://jerrychacon.com/mint/
...back on topic...I am bummed that this wasn't an April fools joke. Bryan, if you reading this thread...we are pulling for you.
I agree with Philip but I hope that Posure is right.
@frotzed: No offense intended. I just didn't know...and certainly not what I expected. How many pastors are there in 9Rules?
...fair enough.
Tyme: The "over 40" note is here. And in the spirit of the note....I'm 40.
...but I am on Rich and Oli's side on this one.
I agree with Rich and Tyme.
Oh and JoeNewBreed, I use my real name and I am OLD.
My site = http://jerrychacon.com
...which is weird because "Jerry Chacon" is just a "middle aged alter ego" for Scrivs (designed to let me participate in the "over 40" club. ;-)
But really, I'm too old to try to remember who I am supposed to be at any given time. It's just easier to be the same person I have always been. Of course, I'm not much of a threat to folks so the Kathy Sierra issue probably isn't too much of a problem for me.
BlogLily posted a similar note on her site (about using the real names of her kids).
Perhaps I am naive, but it's real name all the way for me.
This just seems sad...and to have you host the images is even worse.
I am shocked at what I just learned over at Kathy Sierra's site.
I had no idea. Am I just wildly naive?
Does this happen often? How do you help someone like Kathy (other than add to the avalance of support on her blog)? What would you do if it happened to you?
[EDIT: Interesting freudian typo on my part in the name of Kathy's blog in the tags. BTW, why can't you edit the tags?]
Happy B-Day Young Man.
I have been thinking more about your questions...here and on your blog...and I think that the church really just needs to steal Jesus back from the conservatives and return him to the likes of MLK and Gandhi. Then...perhaps men AND women would flock back to the church.
Ben:
So everyone is probably shocked that a Pasor signed up for 9Rules...but what the hey, you guys are eveywhere else....
On the question...I don't know Jack about NASCAR...but I hear that it is a very hot marketing area.
I am pretty sure that the folks around here will all say the same thing (to you) that they say to everyone else -- if the message is open and honest and from the heart, the message will eventually get through.
The unfortunate thing though is that the mainstream thinks that Jesus has been hijacked by James Dobson and his ilk. Add to that the intonation of your note that Jesus continues to be ever spinnable. The more that the image of Jesus is spun for this cause or that cause the more suspect the likes of the folks around here will be to Jesus.
Rather than ask us who Jesus should be...perhaps we need to ask you...who is Jesus...really? From an iconoclastic perspective, from a historic perspective, etc.
After all...you are the Princeton grad....oh, and welcome to the fray.
@carmodyarc: LOL. That image is worth a point...the cones not the stripper...I have yelled that myself when I have been there.
@ErinR and @Josue: Yes I hear that CR is quite peaceful and pretty. I'll get down to the other America soon. For now, I still love living in the San Francisco Bay Area (work in Palo Alto, live in San Jose). That's probably because I am able to ride the train to work instead of being forced to drive my car.
For me, hikes and mt. bike rides in the foothills, short drive to the Pacific Ocean, not so long drive to Lake Tahoe (skiing), not so long drive to Napa (great food and wine), lots of culture (SF MOMA and the Getty for Art, Davies Hall for Symphony, War Memorial Opera House for, well, Opera)...lots of professional and collegiate sports teams....lots of outdoor music venues ...I could go on and on...and I have!
@Rich: You got a problem with my comment? [wink] <-- BTW, would have used an emoticon here but Lily is following the post. [insert second emoticon here]
@ BlogLily:
@ All: Thanks for the thoughts.
@ Erin: If your first sentence is true for me, then the sharing seems one way and, well, I bet that I am just not that altruistic.
@ Rich: The title and the last question are (for me) two different ways to ask the same thing. If I could get an answer to either questions...that would...presumably...help. Of course, I can't write my blog entries to cater to your first answer (you informing me that you post comments on blogs via mere serendipity simply does me no good) -- unless of course, you CLICK HERE).
@ BlogLily: You can give me a hard time any time you want...except if we ever negotiate against each other...or is that especially if we negotiate against each other...I am not sure which.
;-)
I've gotten into a somewhat lengthy dialogue with a reader in a particular post on my blog. Not that any of you would understand, but a serious conversation with a reader is a new one for me...me the one with few readers.
That dialogue caused me to ask a fundamental question: "What causes you to reply to a post?" For me, the more specific the points made in the post (assertions or facts) and the more passionate the post, the more compelling is my desire to interact.
Is it the same for you?
I ask this because I have written far more articulate and compelling posts and received next to no discourse. This particular post was thrown up as an after-thought following on a You-Tube video that I thought was interesting.
To all those writers among you...how do you churn up discourse?
+1 to what RightOn wrote.
For roro: I'm Jech Geasan. That's almost too normal....
Oh and my screen name is well, my name....almost too boring to be real.
Paul's redesign was more subtle, but it counts.
...I agree with Rich.
What happened here? Did I kill off all discourse? Or does no one care anymore?
Are you talking about http://haveamint.com?
No offense, but you couldn't have been more vague.
What was the url of the site?
...and shouldn't this note be in Tech or Design?
[comment deleted as moronic]
@Cas: LOL.
@all: thanks.
* hand raised *
My two cents: Customer Service is in the eye of the beholder.
So, in extension of Oli's point, I assert that it is important to know what kind of a customer you are as you rant or gloat in this note.
Mike Rundle is not a paying customer -- he gets his for free -- Mike's comment: "they have always been worth a lot more than what we paid" -- is not really saying anything.
I am a paying (mt) customer. I am on gs. I have NOT had "switch-worthy" problems with (mt) or its support.
Yes, my sites go down sporadically (I watch it via Monastic). They go down more than I would like -- every 5 days or so (on average); sometimes briefly, sometimes for 30 minutes or so. Nevertheless, I am not ready to switch -- BUT THEN I run personal sites -- not production sites, not commerce sites. I could understand if someone in a different situation were less patient than me.
Yes, I loath the "initial" automated responses (but that is part of the "we got the ticket" / "it has been docketed" / "we will get to it" step).
Yes, I loath the cut and paste "form language" that doesn't answer the question -- but rather underscores the fact that the person didn't actually read the ticket. But, for me, those have been few and far between -- and I have used the ticket system a fair bit.
But back to why I still like (mt):
* (mt) is now posting (on the "public" side of its website) "system-wide problem reports" and "updates on progress" in a more transparent way -- my former hosting providers never did that (on the public site or the customer side of the website). Sometimes it is comforting to know that my little problem is pissing off others less patient than me.
* (mt) is pushing out global fixes with great gusto.
* ...and the biggest...When (mt) had all the initial problems with gs and my sites were down for hours and hours, they sent me a credit for two months of service. AGAIN, if I ran other types of sites, I might not feel that was much compensation -- but I run the sites I run and for me, their gesture re-validated my view of them as a company.
I am +1 on (mt).
And no Oli, they have not given me any schwag....
This photo was taken in Helsinki at the end of February 2007. Is this an electric car or a combustion car? Is this car sold in the US?
How could I forget?!?
Earl Warren -- Alameda -- Cheif Justice US Supr Ct (notably Brown vs. Board of Ed) and chair of the "Warren Commission" (investigators of JFK's murder).
Kristi Yamaguchi -- Fremont -- Olympic Gold Metalist in figure skating
Pablo Morales -- San Jose -- Olympic Gold Metalist in swimming (butterfly)
Ceaser Chavez -- Salinas -- grape boycotter
Thank you Mr. Anderson.
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