I want to share this link with you (sent to my office by one of our clients who knows what’s up) to give you a taste of what I get to deal with on a daily basis.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
While at times it can be very frustrating (and humorous) to provide client services to people who do not understand web design and development, I really do enjoy educating people about the process.
Now if only they would trust me to provide them with good counsel!
Just wanted to write a quick note to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about this blog. Life and work has been incredibly busy lately.
I am so thankful this Thanksgiving season to be working hard on lots of great projects in the office. I can definitely see more businesses ready to start projects that have been held up for most of the year for fear of the economic climate.
I can’t believe it’s November 20th already! Before you know it, it’s going to be 2010.
Heard on the radio today that Hulu is going to start charging a subscription fee for its site.
They already show commercials. Why would I want to pay money AND watch commercials?
Oh, that’s right… I don’t want to do that.
Okay, so I stole the title line from Leon Phelps (aka the Ladies’ Man from SNL)…
I wanted to share this video that shows women depicted in art over 500 hundred years.
Not only did I find it interesting, there were a lot of times in the video where some of the women in the paintings looked like people I know (or celebrities).
Wendy Lee with kids in Cameroon
My friend Wendy is stationed in Cameroon, West Africa, as a grassroots micro finance volunteer for the Peace Corps. After her first few months in a village without running water or paved roads, she realized that a lot of the kids in Cameroon can’t read and don’t have access to books.
When Wendy contacted an organization called Books for Africa about getting some books for the 4-room school win her village, the project quickly exploded into a large-scale effort that aims to bring 22,000 books to 30 libraries across Cameroon.
Books For Africa gave Wendy an all-or-nothing proposal: either take a 40-foot container of 22,000 books, or nothing at all. The shipping costs $11,500.
Wendy has already raised more than $9,500 for Books for Cameroon, but she still needs to raise $2,000 by the end of October for the project to happen.
Please consider making a donation to Books for Cameroon. No amount is too small. If you can spare $1 or even $5, we will be that much closer to bringing books to these great kids!
All contributions to this Peace Corps project are 100% tax-deductible. And if you feel so inclined, please share this message with your network in hopes that we can raise the rest of the money to make the project happen!
AMC’s Mad Men is officially cultural phenomenon.
Not because it won a ton of awards. Not because every blogger and Twitterer writes about them. Not even because Banana Republic launched a line of clothes inspired by the show.
Mad Men has rocketed in the uber phenomenon status because cute little muppets are now teaching kids about emotions (and advertising) on SESAME STREET.
See it for yourself:
December 8, 2009
Another day, another dime…
I usually try to avoid The Office, Dilbert or any other form of entertainment that is so painfully similar to my everyday office experiences that it cannot be funny.
Then I started reading the Clients from Hell blog and found that sometimes these sorts of things can be humorous.
Today, they posted a Dilbert cartoon:
Not going to name names or anything, but seriously… this happens to me at least once a week.
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