It's a shame that so many "old-school" business people still rest on the tactics of hard-nose experience and a "get the deal done" mentality.  What people in general can't seem to understand, that when you create a strong, positive relationship with someone - obstacles that might turn up are much more easily resolved because of a trust and rapport that has been bonded. For instance:  in the process of ...

This is to everyone who thinks global warming is real. First, it's my birthday, so You can't argue with me until tomorrow - when I may have taken this post down already. Second, no where - and I mean NO WHERE, will you be able to conjure scientific evidence that global warming is real. Provable facts include ones such as our planet has had ...

I've thought about getting a Blackberry for a long time - but would I really use it to it's potential? It's caused me to keep putting it off... until this past week. I bought a brand new sealed Blackberry Pearl off eBay and it's already exceeding my expectations. First, what did I want it for? Well, I'm an email addict already - so I wanted to ...

I drive 40 miles to and from work now. I'm fine with it really - as long as I'm going TO work. It seems that every single frigging day, theres an accident on the way home - usually on the OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY... which for some reason is backing up traffic 15 miles. I have an idea: watch the god damn road in front of ...

I wrote a post a couple weeks ago about waiting for a phone call to find out when my Grandfather passes away. I use Google AdSense to automatically display advertisements on my pages that match the content of that page (Google does that automatically). Unfortunately, that particular post about waiting for death was accompanied by ads for party favors and joke-of-the-day websites. So I wrote ...

Although it happened 9 days ago, word of Jason McElwain's first and last high school basketball game has started sweeping around the country today. J-Mac, as his friends call him, is autistic and was the team manager at Greece Athena High School in Rochester, NY. Then he got the chance of a lifetime... his coach told him he was going to be able to suit up for ...

Why the hell would you have cake and not eat it? My birthday is coming up on Saturday, so I thought it would be a good time to break my 6-day silence here. I'm not sure why I haven't written... it's not like I'm not living every day... but I've decided to stop starting every post with why I haven't written. It's annoying. What ...

I promise to be as unbiased as possible... I'm not a hateful person, really... but this situation has to be addressed as it's affecting thousands of people throughout Wisconsin, and no one seems to be talking about it. Here's some background on the situation: First, Charter Communications is the main (if not only) cable provider in Madison, and a good portion of Wisconsin. Charter has an On-Demand service that ...

I'm so sick of this it's not even funny. I could be more pissed about the weather today, except the rest of my pissyness has been taken up by Charter cable - which I'll write about in a minute... Last night, the Badgers skillfully put out "The" Ohio State University and moved into 2nd place in the Big Ten - with the slippery path they were falling down, ...

I recently got a message through MySpace from an old friend. It was nice. Amy and I were pretty close when we were younger, 6th-9th grade maybe? It just brought me back to a time in life when things weren't so complicated... Not that things are real complicated right now I suppose, but looking back 15 years ago... haha... its ridiculous the things that were important. ...