I first heard about the Internet over thirty years ago from one of my college friends. He landed a job with a computer mainframe manufacturer and was assigned to work at a university. He regaled me with tales of instantaneously sending text messages across the country at no cost. “That is fantastic,” I said. “How […]
On Monday this week (in the United States) we had no mail delivery because of Veterans’ Day. To miss mail for one day is not a problem, but what if this occurred on a regular basis? What if Saturday delivery was omitted or we only received mail three days a week? (These ideas are considerations […]
Being a numbers guy, I want to share some stats about this blog: 3 years, 1 month: the amount time I’ve been blogging 457: the number of posts 123,300: the number of words written (enough for a decent sized book) 1,272: average number of posts viewed per week (the most was 2,954) 14,718: the number […]
A few months ago, I choose not to renew a tertiary domain name for a website. One semi-resourceful individual saw that it was now available, researched that I owned a similar one, and offered to procure it for me — not realizing that I was the former owner. (See “The Difference Between Good and Bad Marketing.”) […]
I’m used to people harvesting contact information from my websites to send me messages, most of which are spam. I have a dozen or so sites, with each containing links to many of the others. So it’s not uncommon for them to harvest an email from one site, jump to the next to harvest a […]
Most of my Websites include ads from Google. If you’re not familiar with how Google ads work, here’s a brief overview. I put some special software code (html code) on my websites, which goes and gets ads from Google each time someone views that page. The content of the ad (generally) relates to the content of that […]
As I contemplated my publishing business, I was struck with the realization that I had structured it as a virtual company. This wasn’t intentional; it just worked out that way. Not only am I the only one working in the “corporate office,” there are no local vendors either. Indeed everyone who takes part in the […]