January 2011
7 posts
Watching "Downton Abbey"
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Arial; min-height: 21.0px} I like Downton Abbey. This surprises me, because usually I don’t go in for historical British costume TV shows. I leave those to Her Ladyship, who is mourning because she has just finished watching Lark Rise to Candleford, and now there ain’t no...
Why you should subscribe to PRWeek
If you want them to charge your credit card a half-dozen times, spend a lot of time exchanging email with their customer service department, get your credit card frozen, and STILL be unable to access the Web site, then go for it.
We're hiring an editor
Just a reminder for those of you who missed it over the holiday break: I recently started as editor in chief of The CMO Site, a community and group blog for high-level marketing executives at big companies. We’re looking for a senior editor to work with me. The work is challenging and rewarding, and the pay is competitive. You’ll be involved in building a new model of...
In which I attempt to rehabilitate my reputation...
Our neighbor across the street was having some Internet problems. Their granddaughter is staying with them a while, and she needed to connect her MacBook to the Internet to do a class project, but she couldn’t do it. So I came over and connected them. Turned out to be a simple fix: I unplugged the Ethernet from the grandparents’ PC, and plugged it into the MacBook. The MacBook still...
Fix for the iPhone alarm bug
I got nailed by the iPhone alarm bug this morning. My alarm didn’t go off. Fortunately I got up anyway. I think I found a fix, though — delete alarm, then re-create it. I tried that for a new alarm five minutes in the future. Then I deleted all my alarms. We’ll see what happens tomorrow morning.
A sniglet for the 21st Century
Remember sniglets? There must be a word for the apprehension that you accidentally posted a snarky comment to a corporate Twitter account you manage, rather than to your own personal Twitter account.
Addendum to the Mitch Wagner Decade In Review
I forgot something very important in my post earlier today: Julie and I lost all four of our parents in the 2000s. My Mom died in April, 2000, followed about six week’s later by Julie’s father, then Julie’s mother, then my father in 2004. I miss my Mom very often. She was fat when we were children and teen-agers, then she got into Weight Watchers and lost weight when she was not...