A couple of days ago, an old friend* of mine, Heidi, posted a PSA for her readers on her blog, The Happy Freelancer. The post, Walking Away from a Potential Client, had me reminiscing in a comment about an extremely rude potential client. I don’t know whether the universe was bent on biting me on the posterior and taking out a chunk, but I had a run in yesterday with a client over a short 350 word article. Continue reading
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Parent of the Month Award
I was clicking through various links and news stories and such this morning and I came across this Dear Abby letter that made me stare and ask myself, “What the hell kind of snowflake are these people raising?” If you don’t feel like clicking, here’s the letter:
Dear Abby: I have a beautiful wife, a dog and an 8-year-old son with whom I love to watch sports. My son loves sports, but he has trouble accepting a loss. He takes out his disappointment by beating the dog. Continue reading
Out With Drupal, In With WordPress
As I mentioned previously, I had the intent of switching blogging software from Drupal to WordPress. Several people informed me that Drupal is so much better than WordPress and, honestly, I would have stuck with it if I didn’t need any extra features that weren’t included with the base build. When I was researching blog software, I should have paid attention to the people who had issues migrating from other software to Drupal. Continue reading
YOU Celebrate Christmas and other Rubbish
I was perusing Facebook this morning to see what I could see and I noticed that my niece and a few others posted the following. I also have received it in no less than a dozen emails over the last week and there was a straw and it broke the camel’s proverbial back, as it were: Continue reading