A question from Tobbe Ryber has inspired me to jot down a few things I've been meaning to do in a more extensive blog post for a long time. But since it hasn't happened yet, I figure it probably never will, so you'll have to settle for my abbreviated, half-ass version. Twenty reasons to use Visual S...

I have officially taken up space rampaged through respirated lived for thirty-five years. Wow. Allow me a moment to bask in it. Or try to, anyway. I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my Dad, obviously. He is perhaps more a part of me now than ever before. We had a rocky period whe...

We have heard references to websites devoted to ranking public rest rooms, but we’ve never taken the time to look.  Until now. Cintas - yep, the uniform people - has a service division, where they will clean and stock your facilities.  To promote those services, each year they look for Ameri...

…a radio call-in show. It is not an open public forum. Sometimes I get complaints about how I handle comments. I received a quite thoughtful and persuasive complaint just a few hours ago. There is a teeny-tiny link on the front page of my blog that goes to my policy on comments, but I suspect ...

Filed under: Just for moms In my chaotic work-from-home universe, laundry tumbles into dishwasher loading until the cuckoo clock coos nap time. Then I write, call, email and think like a mad woman -- until a couple of hours later, when I hear the sleepy cry for "Mama." My family and I have "quantity...

I have been pouring over metrics for some brands here at Reed Business Information, and keep seeing a similar trend. Check out this graph which shows the page views for new articles that one brand uploaded to their site in a given month: Sure, you see the Long Tail here - a few articles getting a lo...

Kristina Shands with the Tennessee Clean Water Network says there are 14 destructive water bills in both the Sentate and House that threaten the quality of our state's waters. TCWN needs everyone to call their elected officials and tell them TO PROTECT TENNESSEE'S WATER. We especially need folks in ...

David Brooks had an extremely insightful column last week in the NY Times on what Americans are looking for in their ideal living environment. I liked the opening in particular: You may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and have dreams. One dream many share is that Americans ...

Work in Small Batches -- I'm obsessed by the pursuit of quality, but at human scale and not in the stultifying ISO9001 process. The ever-wonderful Startup Lessons Learned blog ties together Toyota Quality, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment, with good explanations of why it works. (I'...

Jesus and I tested out the erectile quality monitor gadget (different units!) to see if it was actually useful, or if it was just telling you what you could easily see for yourself. First we need to......