Walgreens had our prescription but not the medicine. They called the hospital pharmacy, determined they had it and asked if we’d like the prescription transfered there. When I got to the hospital, they had the medicine, but not the prescription. They remembered Walgreen’s call to check on availability, said they never called back with the prescription transfer. It turns out Walgreens did transfer the prescription–to Walmart. It is a good thing this is just for a sore ear and nothing life threatening.
Dishwasher
I think my wife may have gotten a bit too much sun at the pool. She just handed me a pile of laundry with explict instructions that they be placed in the dishwasher. I need to go check the dryer to make sure none of our silverware needs rescued.
How to Publish a Book
I bought a copy of John T. Reed’s book called How to Write, Publish & Sell Your Own How-To Book. It is an interesting read, so I wanted to review it. Basically John Reed thinks selling through bookstores and through Amazon is a huge waste of money because so much of the profit ends up in other’s pockets. He makes some good points and he gives lots of examples of how he makes significantly more money by not selling in bookstores.
The style of the book is interesting. It often reads more like a rant than what you’d expect in a book. At the same time, he backs up what he says with data and experience so it isn’t like he is just pulling ideas of out the air. He really likes subheadings. Pretty much every paragraph contains its own subheading. At first this seemed a bit odd, but it does make the book easy to scan and find just the portions that you want to read. Continue reading “How to Publish a Book”
Bringing Back The Cassette Tape
Why should the cassette tape make a comeback?
Mp3s sound terrible anyways, so why not have something that sounds terrible that you can hold? ~ Jahnle
Tumblr vs. WordPress
Brett Kelly has a post about why he uses Tumblr instead of WordPress (or something else) for http://nerdgap.com. Here are a few of his major points:
- Tumblr is hosted so he doesn’t have to mess with the server or install.
- Tumblr limits what he can do, so he has to focus on the content instead of fiddling with other stuff.
It is an interesting read. As someone who started off using TypePad for Productivity501 because of his first reason, I’m not sure he’ll feel the same way a few years down the road when reason number two starts really limiting what he can do. I finally bit the bullet and got some really good (and expensive) hosting in order to not have to worry about the server side of things. Like Brett, I’m perfectly capable of managing my own server, but it can be a huge distraction from writing.
Still, I’ve found it very useful to have the flexibility that I get from a self hosted install of WordPress. Brett is basically saying that “content is king, so lets eliminate anything that distracts from great content”. I don’t agree. Content is very important, but it is just as important to do intelligent things with your technology. In fact, the revenues from two of my sites have gone from paying for a couple bills to paying the mortgage, taxes and insurance on a 4,000 square foot house when I stopped focusing so much on content and started trying to be smart about how I used and customized the technology.
I want to checkout Tumblr based on Brett’s recommendation, but I still think that the flexibility from self-hosted WordPress is very necessary if you want to turn a blog into a significant source of income.