May 9th, 2008 Announcement: I’m not writing new posts because I’m busy with travelling, studying philosophy, and living.
… or so the man says.
I picked up some free MP3 audios from Frank Rumbauskas Jr. of NeverColdCall.com.
He teaches the cold calling doesn’t work. And yet, I’ve made it work before.
So I’m trying to think, what’s this Frank guy about? Is this just his marketing schtick so he can sell books and audios? Or does he have a leg to stand on?
Well the audios were enjoyable, but anything sounds good when there’s no other person to criticize it or reality to test it.
On the other hand, Stephan Schiffman is a man whose books I read years ago. I recently snatched up an excellent book of his with both hands, “Make It Happen Before Lunch”, for $12 at the neighbourhood used book store. Heck, I sat down then and there and read it for 40-minutes before they threw me out at closing so I had to buy it.
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I was doing some research on commenting systems for blogs, after temporarily not finding the correct way to turn my new hand coded website design into a WordPress theme.
UPDATE Monday September 23rd: Successfully installed WordPress. Post continues from original date…
I’ve been putting thought into that one off and on for a few days and get error after error.
Well, to console myself I entered a few search strings into Google. I read about the different problems people have with comment databases using software hosted on their own servers.
I was reading one post by Loren at Incremental Blogger, a business tech blog. Loren’s comments stopped working in July of ’06. When I tried to leave a comment today, they’re still broken — over one year later!
The reason I wanted to comment and ended up sending Loren an email instead is because I came across this gem:
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I'm off sabbatical back in Victoria and looking for a business to sell for. I may now update this blog from time to time with my thoughts on business.