I Have Officially Become a Digital Book Snob

There’s no denying it. I love my Kindle and I hate paper books. I don’t like holding them with two hands, I don’t like keeping the pages pulled apart so I can read the words near the binding (often the best words are located there), and I don’t like lugging them around with me on [...]

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Ecommerce pushes ‘last minute shopping’ a step farther

With the use of e-commerce rising and the elimination of ‘shelves’ and ‘in-stock’ items (unless you are buying a wii or a kindle), procrastinators such as myself have been able to wait longer and longer to buy Christmas presents, even able to get things delivered lickity split just a few days before Christmas. But what [...]

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Seriously, iPhone, Stop Being Stupid!

It happens about once a week — I get frustrated, then angry then sad. Why? Because the iPhone is such a great product but has a small shortcoming that makes it completely unusable as a business phone for me. That feature is push technology or multiple application capabilities. At work, we communicate via Google Talk [...]

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It’s finally happened – I turned green

At our offices, we are constantly looking for ways to  help out the environment and improve our health – we buy biodegradable plastics,  we provide free healthy snacks and drinks, we have infrared sensors so lights turn off when we aren’t there, and we mark our normal trash ‘landfill’ (taken from my visits to the [...]

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Austin Trail of Lights – brought to you by BuildASign.com

Every year I go to the Trail of Lights in Zilker park and see the new exhibits, watch the shows, eat funnel cake and drink hot chocolate — it’s a blast. This year, there is something new to see: brand new signs! My company, BuildASign.com is sponsoring all the signs for the exhibit, the tree [...]

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