Miscellaneous

TL/DR; — I’m older, fatter, and even more bald (if possible). In January, Yeni and I did something crazy… we finally took a honeymoon. Sure, some people do this right after getting married. Some might even take a honeymoon during their first year. We decided to wait 6 years and it was worth the wait. You probably already guessed that we took a Disney cruise. You’d be right. We headed out on the Disney Dream for a 4 day cruise of the Caribbean and we cannot wait to go again. We loved every minute and started the year on an incredible high. When we hit land, normal life greeted our arrival and it was back to work— Yeni headed to the bakery and I headed to ITEXPO. ...

Fair warning: this is one of those tech type posts. Recently, I updated my system from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The upgrade was flawless, with one exception: I was unable to print to my Canon printer using Ubuntu. Printing worked perfectly from the 12.04 systems (that weren’t upgraded to 14.04)… and with my 14.04 system I received the following error: ... Idle - src = libcanon_pdlwrapper.c, line = 514 ....

I subscribe to Seth Godin’s email where each day my inbox receives his latest blog post. The man writes often. Every day. So each day, by noon, I’ve read one of his posts. Some I quickly skim. Others I read, think about how it may apply to me… and digest it. Others just click. Take for example three marketing lessons from Broadway. … activating people who already like you is far more productive and profitable than it is to spend time and money yelling at people who are ignoring you....

I loathe drama. If there’s a simple way to do something, it’s generally also the best way to handle a task. Ah, the wisdom we can learn from imgur. 😉 To sum up the photo: Why Complicate Life? Miss someone? Call them Want to spend time with someone? Invite them Want to be understood? Explain Have questions? Ask them Don’t like something? Say something Like something? Say something Want something? Ask for it Life is better when we keep it simple....

This week, I spent a day in Seattle. Since I live 3,000 miles from Seattle, that single day cost me 3 (one day there, one day to fly there, and one day to fly back). I’m an East Coast guy. I’m not saying this as a negative to Seattle — I’m just saying that there are major differences in the way East Coast and West Coast people go about their lives....

So, working the phones over at the bakery today while coding some dialplans… when a call comes in from a South Florida area code… I’m calling to get a custom cake for a 70th birthday party. Normally, these types of events are planned with some good lead time. It’s a significant birthday, one that generally has family coordination, etc. I generally love these calls. Unlike most of the tech work I do, bakery clients are always celebrating....

I’m a lucky guy. Besides having a smoking hot wife, I’ve also been able to meet some incredible people — some incredibly smart people. One of these people, John Spence, is a great author, speaker, consultant, and advisor who makes the very complex awesomely simple. He also happens to post some amazing advice on his blog, such as: Let me make this as Awesomely Simple as I can: for the vast majority of businesses today the ONLY competitive differentiator you have is the level of service you deliver to your customers....

With a tag-line of friends don’t let friends get tracked, new search engine Duck Duck Go certainly new how to grab my attention. Ok, I said new but in reality it’s a few years old… I’m just slow and it’s new to me. DuckDuckGo.com is a search engine that doesn’t track your results… which means you can search for something online and not see advertisements related to your search on other sites you visit....

This one does it for me every time. Well, this one and the Sly one. =) Secrets to success Pt. 1 from Eric Thomas (The Hip Hop Preacher)

I do use a variety of statistical data to review the websites I administer — and while I will monitor and review the others very often, I review FredPosner.com about twice a year… and with that long winded introduction, I present… 2013: The Year That Was at FredPosner.com. ...