All Things Cahill

(Pat Woodford pointed this one out – thanks!) Alan Mutter, one of my favorite reads, had a post entitled “Dead animals, large and small” in which he notes that last week a link from an artist’s blog brought in 1,000 links, where as  links in both Forbes.com and Businessweek.com netted one solitary visit. Three weeks ago, Newsosaur’s admittedly modest traffic spiked to an all-time daily high of more than 1,000 visits as the result of this link from a blog…

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I’m in Washington DC this week, so blogging will be light due to limited access. I took the kids to the TGI Fridays at the Blackstone Valley Mall on Sunday.  It was hot, I’d just mowed the lawn and decided that a 23 ounce beer would hit the spot.  They carded both myself and my wife (age 50) and forced me to go to the parking lot to get her drivers license.  Nice to know they actually watch that stuff, but…

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Assembly of Dust – a great jam band – thanks to Jim Louderback for the reminder of how good these guys are! Amplified Messiah – from the 2004 Allgood Festival. Dig deeper: Wikipedia Entry AOD  website Archive.org Live Music MP3 Download Page (127 live concerts in archive)

Ever the one to take a controversial stand, especially if it increases hits or readership, John C. Dvorak of Dvorak.com/blog and PCMag.com is predicting in this column that: Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results—a bust. It’s déjà vu all over again. And since this moment in time is only the beginning of…

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A classic post by Nikole Gipps at Small Business Essentials – “The 5 Business Colleagues Your Should Have“. Too many entrepreneurs try to exist in a vacuum instead of seeking out the help and support that can bring them to success. So here it is, the five people you should have on your “team” when you are an entrepreneur: Actually, click the link above and read them on her blog. My thought comes in more along the lines of this:…

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I’m a little hot under the collar right now.  I stupidly allowed the trial version of Symantec installed on this machine to go ahead and update itself.  Bad move, very bad move. You see, Symantec apparently believes it knows better than I when my machine needs to perform some tasks.  Like rebooting.  I mean, hey, what’s a little reboot amongst friends anyways? So this little update, which truthfully I neither want nor need, as I will be installing AVG on…

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So a customer dials up their designer/hosting company and says “I’d like to put a blog on my site.” If you’re the hosting company, what do you do? Provide a server specification and tell the customer that as long as it works with the system, it’s okay. Offer to set up the blog for them. Tell them you don’t support blogs, and request that the dreaded software is hosted elsewhere. Yeah, you can bet that I’m writing about the clueless…

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This is cool stuff.

A great version from 1969… Dig Deeper: Wikipedia Entry…

I caught an interesting press release yesterday from SoftScan that says that of all the email they scanned in June, 90.o6% was classified as spam. Even worse, the peak spam rates are truly astonishing. June also saw SoftScan record its highest ever percentage of email classified as spam when it stopped 96.55% of all email scanned, correctly identifying it as junk mail. Narrowly beating February’s record of 96.22%, the high level occurred during a weekend when there is less legitimate business…

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