Interesting Observation About Demographics of People on My Blog

When I write, I don’t necessarily write for one specific type of person or demographic. I just write whatever’s in my head. Wether it’s a rant about technology, or career advice, or just personal life, I generally just write without thinking about who it’s for. However, I will notice that some of my blog posts [...]

Great Content Makes For Great Virality and Publicity

There are two kinds of people on social networks: those who want more followers and those who are lying – Guy Kawasaki in his new book APE – How to Publish a Book The same could be said about getting traffic to your blog or website. Everyone craves for it. There is something about seeing [...]

Why Are People So Passionate About the Oxford Comma?

<Editors Note: I’m almost afraid to write about the Oxford comma for the sole reason that it might attract Grammar Nazi’s who will then point out all the grammatical errors I have in this post.> For those that are not in “the know”, here is a definition of the Oxford Comma from Wikipedia: The serial comma (also [...]

Why I Like It When Everyone Stops Working For Thanksgiving Break

I love thanksgiving break and late December. Everyone takes off work. This also happens to be when I get most of my development work done. It’s the quietest and there is very minimal e-mail flow. This past week I finished a project I’ve been talking about for a while, finishing touches on an iOS app, [...]

Front Page of Hacker News Gave me 21,000 Views and 10 New Twitter Followers. That’s Right, 10.

I wrote an article yesterday titled: Don’t Lie On Your Resume, But Lie Like Hell During Your Exit Interview and it was on the front page of HN. The Good News 21,000 Views in one day! 105 Comments on Hacker News Post 15+ Comments on my blog post The Bad News 10 New Twitter Followers. That’s it [...]