A couple of days ago I was reading a blog post by Rose DesRochers called The Online Reputation of Rose DesRochers. In the post, she talks about being asked to write a guest post for another blog, yet when she submitted the post she was told by the person that he had seen something negative […]

A couple of days ago, a friend of mine got tossed from one of the social networking sites I’m a part of. She basically got herself banned for protecting her very good name, but going a couple more steps forward than she really needed to. As we were talking on the phone about it later […]

(originally published July 20th, 2005) There was this commercial last year for Citibank where one woman asked another woman when the baby was due. When the other woman said she wasn’t pregnant, and was ready to challenge the first woman, the first woman said “thank you”. The second woman was stunned, said “Who, me?”, and […]

(originally published July 2nd, 2005) Yesterday I had to stop by UPS on the way home to pick up a package that they had tried to deliver a couple of days in a row. I was out of town, and my wife was at work, so she called and told them I would be coming. […]

(originally published November 11th, 2005) Well, today was a tough day. It started out okay, but then I had a series of setbacks that started to bring me down, and depress me for a long part of the day. I do’t want to get into major details, but let’s just say that they all seemed […]