Category: General

I’m not lucky enough to be a Nielsen family but I did just send back the questionnaire to be a Gallup household. You better watch out.

Just took this quiz: The 3 Variable Funny Test It rates your sense of humor across three axes. I ended up as The Cutting Edge. CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK (versus vulgar, complex and light)

Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek (my interview with him) did a fantastic job troll-baiting the blogosphere this week with a post titled: How to Test Drive Friends and Irritate People In the post, Ferris talks about that along with streamlining our work and lifestyle we could also manipulate our friends or potential friends […]

Came across a new curse word on a discussion board. It is a portmanteau of two nasty words crammed into one delicious one that isn’t profane to say but gets the meaning of it’s parent words wrapped up in a freshly baked burrito of seething resentment. The next time you need to rail at someone, […]

Technology has made it possible for us to do more things – to get more done. And now that we’ve managed to cram in to one day what used to take us three or four, our next challenge is remembering all the things we need to do. Over the years we’ve used all sorts of […]

I love to use mind mapping. It’s fun, easy, and a wonderful way to add a bit of creativity to everything we do. Earlier this year, I interviewed a woman named Jamie Nast, author of Idea Mapping, for my weekly television program, Michigan Entrepreneur. We had a great time. She’s been teaching mind mapping to […]

Commenting on blogs is probably not at the top of your To Do List — but maybe it should be. It’s certainly one strategy to build good solid traffic, as well as subscribers, to your blog. Darren Rowse at http://Problogger.net recently wrote a post about Caroline Middlebrook who did a great job of increasing her […]

Wal-Mart always pushes the envelope – sometimes good, sometimes bad – in terms of value, price and expectations. They’ve started selling Linux-based PCs again for under $200 and consumers – real people, I presume – love them: Yes, this product does NOT run Windows without some modifications, but it’s not MADE to. For what it […]

Rose asks: Andy I really don’t know about you! I’m 45 yrs old and not hardly ever a skeptic of almost anything or anyone, but you however I’m skeptic about. Why because James Ray is the producer of the movie about the Secret and it seems more to me that your simply making prophets off […]

At the Hilton (next door to Blogworld) they have  Manilow gift shop with a freezer case full of Manilow Bottled Water. I mean really, where do you go after that? This is how empires collapse. 🙂