Security, Mt. Meigs Road style
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July 2008
Marketing
Does one ever get work unless the deck is stacked?
So the Brains on Fire Blog has a post about how they don’t respond to RFPs as an agency (with the exception of “unless we have the inside track or we write them” (which is really no exception at all). Good for them, and I mostly agree. At our company, we do some times respond
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Current Events, Local, Music, Real Life
AU Knights reunion this weekend
The Auburn Knights will have their annual reunion this weekend. Montgomery Advertiser story. I like to think that in some parallel universe I got to play with the Auburn Knights as a regular band member, but truthfully I went to AUM and anyway I was probably never that good. However, I was asked to play
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Marketing, Real Life
Travel blog update
What can trying to cash in on travel coupons teach us about perishable commodities? Not much if you’re depending on night auditor types, I suppose. I just drove over to Tuscaloosa. For the benefit of my out-of-state fans, the trip from the Montgomery area to Tuscaloosa is single-handedly responsible for the preponderance of Auburn fans
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Internet Geekdom, Music
logolounge.com, swooshy logos, and you
Perhaps this would have been a good place for Birmingham’s Mayor to look for inspiration/advice: www.logolounge.com
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Current Events
This is why design work should be left to professionals
This is what I get for twittering snarky things about the new Birmingham logo. A friend at al.com challenged me to critique the new design. First, let me say for the record I have no opinion about the name change, the wisdom of changing the name, etc. In my business, of course, change is good.
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Internet Geekdom
Google talk chatback badge
(hat-tip: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-talk-sidebar-widget-10/ – http://alax.info/blog . ) I’m actually not using his code, as I found that Google has a simple badge deal available from them that I could just slap in the sidebar. However, looking for this was a needle-in-the-haystack proposition, and looking at his blog (and chatting with him) confirmed that this would work. What’s
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Current Events, Internet Geekdom
This made my eyes leak a little
… and puts the previous whining in perspective. R.I.P. Olive. http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com/
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Books
Best line in a book I’ve read lately
Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon is over a thousand pages long. Here’s one of the best passages in a very good book, in my opinion. Randy, a computer savant and one of the main characters, is recalling when he had to have his wisdom teeth out (as a bonus, this entire passage, which actually runs a good
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Internet Geekdom
New Template
Finally gave up on the old template and trying to fix the fact that the right columns always broke and went under the content. Now using Silver Light. So far I like the code structure and didn’t find it too hard to bang in my changes to the right column.