So, 2009 is over. It seems like just yesterday that I was looking at the year as it started and thinking how good it would be for me. Then, life happened and it’s now the first day of 2010. 2009 was an awesome year for me. I learned a LOT about [...]
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For the final topic in Gwen Bell’s Best of Blog Challenge 2009, I’ve got a resolution that I had every intention of sticking with, but didn’t. And, that was simply to do a better job of staying in touch with friends and family. I had resolved at the beginning of the year to [...]
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As the penultimate topic for Gwen Bell’s Best of Blog Challenge 2009, the topic is “Ad” with the topic starter: “What advertisement made you think this year?”
And, in thinking about how to respond to this topic, I decided that I would rather talk about what is wrong with advertising these days, rather than which ONE [...]
As the Best of Blog Challenge 2009 gets closer to the end, this is the topic for today – December 29th: Best Laugh. “What was your biggest belly laugh of the year?”
There were several things that got me laughing so hard I almost fell over. This post from Jenny Lawson on her Sexis column [...]
Gwen Bell’s Best of Blog Challenge for today is: Social Web Moment.
Did you meet someone you used to only know from her blog? Did you discover Twitter?
My Social Web Moment happened via Twitter. The conversation happened between me and a twitter friend and both the official In-N-Out Burger Twitter person AND Grant Imahara [...]
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“What’s a gift you gave yourself this year that has kept on giving?” This is the topic for today in the Best of Blog Challenge 2009.
I could have gone with my iPhone or my Macbook. I could wax rhapsodic about either device. The phone has become almost an extension of my soul, I use it [...]
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This is the topic for today: Online or offline, where did you spend most of your mad money this year?
If you’ve been following my posts for the Best of Blog Challenge 2009, then you might already guess where I spent my “mad money” this year. And, actually, it wasn’t one place, but three places: [...]
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I spent a while thinking about this topic. What would I choose as my best word or phrase for 2009? There are several candidates. Among them, “Hope” and “Yes we can!”. There is also “Going Rogue” and “You betcha!” New Yorkers might suggest something like, “The Yankees win the pennant!” [...]
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I drink simple unsweet black tea. Nothing fancy. Aside from some lemon, I don’t care for flavored teas or fruit teas or spicy teas like the kinds you can get at Starbucks. Plain old tea. Usually cold, but hot is fine too. Sometimes, I drink hot Chinese or Japanese tea, [...]
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For the best packaging for 2009, the winner, in my book, is Apple Computer. They have mastered the art of packaging such that they use less material and design the packaging to be both elegant and functional. In fact, they reduced the size of their computer boxes so that they can ship the same [...]
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