Archive for January, 2005
It’s a Boy
Tristan Reese Hartley
Born: 1/29/05, 12:29 Central Time
Weight: 6 lbs, 1 ounce.
Length: 19″
Posted: January 30th, 2005 under Personal.
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Now this is a Corporate Operations Manual
It isn’t too often that an excellent corporate operations manual crosses paths with myself.
“The purpose of this minor monograph is to establish a basic view to running a firm and create a corporate culture. Sadly, the legal environment will not allow this to be binding, but it will express how I feel about things and […]
Posted: January 25th, 2005 under Business.
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3 Months After the Launch of AdPulp.com
Coming up in a couple weeks is the four month anniversary of AdPulp.com, my first commerical blog/micro-publishing venture (in partnership with David Burn).
After the first three months, site traffic has grown to about 700 unique visitors per day. Technically, that number is slightly higher as the low weekend volumes drag the average down considerably. Site […]
Posted: January 21st, 2005 under General.
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Email Marketers: You’ve got 15-20 seconds
Recently on MarketingSherpa, a study by EmailLabs (open-access through January) conducted this past October “across millions of messages sent by their more than 300 clients to permission lists” showed the average read-time has dropped to 15-20 seconds. If access is closed by the time you read this, the article goes on with implications, recommendations and […]
Posted: January 21st, 2005 under Email Marketing.
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Sony DSC-P150 Digital Camera (7 Mega Pixel)
And speaking of photos…
With four short weeks left until the birth of our first child, we decided that 1.3 megapixel digital shots from the aging Olympus D460-Zoom camera just wouldn’t be appropriate.
About a year ago, I had my eye on the Nikon Coolpix 5700, but couldn’t ever find the justification to pull the trigger on […]
Posted: January 21st, 2005 under General.
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Google’s Picasa 2
Google launched Picasa, Version 2 on Monday.
Picasa is a photo management package Google acquired last year. Among the various features, there are several push-of-the-button features including the usual color correcting, red-eye correction, etc. In additon, they have added in a whole slew of filters, masks and lighting effects sufficiently simplified for the typical user. Also […]
Posted: January 21st, 2005 under Search.
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