As I have said before, I am in the business of making your business look better. It’s what I do. If you were to hire me, part of my job would entail helping you find the right ways to market your business.
For my business, I have a sticker that I could put on my truck if I wanted to. It is my (former) logo, custom made by a company who does such work. I say could, because I have never done it. I’m not really in the business of getting business on the highway. Plus, my driving record could probably prove that I wouldn’t obtain much business even if I was. While I am not a fan of window stickers/car decals/magnets for my business, I might recommend them for you and your business if I knew it would attract the right clients. Who knows.
What I wouldn’t do though is any form of the following:
I wouldn’t put any sort of advertising on your car if it isn’t a professional looking vehicle. Meaning, if we are fighting for window space with your ‘Calvin, doing anything inappropriate to any other brand,’ it ain’t happening.
We aren’t moving, but I feel like my work-life is. This is my new toy:
Hopefully to become less and less of a toy and more of a tool over the next couple of weeks. It’s beautiful both in form and function. But it’s not a PC.
Everything I know about computers is about to change. So much so that I will have to do it slowly. I have a new 15-inch MacBook Pro but have already loaded Windows on to it. I had to. For my sanity and my budget.
My sanity will be saved when I just get caught up in the inevitable ‘I know just how to make this work on Windows,’ and my budget was saved in the way that I already have Windows versions of the software that Adobe is willing to sell me for $1700 for my new Mac.
Slowly over time, I hope to move a larger percentage of work time away from the PC. Right now I would probably guess the ratio of my work will be 85/15 PC to Mac. As I get more comfortable (and as my budget allows), I hope to get those numbers closer to 50/50 and then possibly even 25/75 PC to Mac. There are a few things that will only run on Windows so I will probably never be able to fully rid myself of it.
So, for the next couple of weeks, I am moving. Files. Emails. Bookmarks. Music. Pictures. Videos. Plugins. Software. And I am meeting my new neighbors. FTP clients. ZIP extractors. Clocks. Red, Yellow, and Green buttons. Title bars that don’t expand a window on double-click. Programs that don’t actually close when you hit the Red close button. Keystrokes. Entourage. Virtual Machines. Widgets. Dashboards. Text Editors. Hi neighbors, I’m the new guy. Please be kind.
Here’s to new adventures and a good riddance of BSOD (blue screens of death).
Interesting idea. Years in the making. You have until December 31st to participate in their ‘give one, get one’ project. Cost to participate is $400 but after watching this idea for a while I think it is a worthy cause. Don’t need one of your own? You can donate one by itself for $200.
The laptops are created from start to finish for about $100. Granted, they aren’t going to be anything that we’re accustomed to but for children who haven’t ever sat in front of a computer it should be great.
A week or two ago I decided to remove some of the movies (all DVD’s) in our collection that we have never watched, watched and are ready to share, or know that I would have some explaining to do to my son about why we own two full seasons of a TV show referred to as another name for a burrow.
Either way, they have been removed from the cabinet and are looking for a good home. Their fate rests in several options:
a. Craigslist, ebay, Hastings, etc…
b. Freecycle
c. Give them to you
d. Donate them to some charity like GRACE (local group)
[a] possibly takes more time than they are worth. (more…)
