It’s not that I’m ignoring this site

It is really just that I haven’t gotten back to it with the dozen web sites I’m running on wordpress now.

Five Ways to Tell if Your Site Sucks

Let’s face facts. There are more bad sites, than good sites and far many more horrible sites than great sites. Even great web designers can make bad web design choices. And just about anyone can see a bad website when they happen to find one.

Business web sites tend to be real offends as the web is an easy way to generate easy sales leads, connect with customers, and cut overhead on advertising.   But for whatever reason or a number of reasons, many sites suck in one of Five Ways

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I know I don’t blog that much

Odd really.  I love wordpress with a passion, building sites in it, writing content, and more.  But beyond all my reasons, I simply cannot bring myself to stick to it.

I blame youtube, the greatest time waster of the internet.

Renters need More Protection

It dawned on me that while Obama’s Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 is great for protecting unsuspecting renters from sudden eviction by a bank in the event of foreclosure, but it does nothing to protect renters, like myself, who have found out about the forclosure, has deadbeat landlords who are trying to evict me so they can scam someone else.

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That New Car Smell, Last Year’s Model

Last Week I posted about the overhaul of this blog.  After spending three days and two nights working on it, I managed to recreate the old theme, discarding the K2 options completely.  I also took steps to overhaul and renovate the archive pages and post pages along with adding in some new features.

There are many more changes to come, but for now my mind is focused on this move to a new home.

While I haven’t discussed it to much, my home, a rental, is in foreclosure at the moment and it seems the bank is claiming it this Friday.  Not only have I been cheated out of my money for over a year by this deadbeat landlord, but now I have 2 days to find a new home and money to put down for it.

This Blog, This Site

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Got a Big Hat, But No Cattle

I realize now that these posts are actually, and to some extent, about lying to people.  But in business you do have people who lie and people who are honest and then the final group who are honestly believe their lies. Read the rest of this entry »

Too Clever By Half

Sometimes being right isn’t enough.  Sometimes people make a point of being right and thinking they are right about everything.   I’d say “We’ve all met the type of person before…”  but then I’d be reading your mind so I’ll get started witht he article.

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Putting Lipstick on a Pig

I’ve heard this phrase since I was a kid.  Ann Richards rode it to her governorship of texas.  Recently it was a weak attempt to paint a future president as sexist.  But this phrase has a fundamental truth to it and a lesson to be learned.

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