Well, nothing puts life in perspective like the threat of loss. This week, our beloved dog Jenna almost died. She has an extremely dangerous auto-immune disorder called Thrombocytopenia. The disease can cause afflicted animals to bleed to death, because it destroys all of their platelets — the things that cause your blood to clot when [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Small business podcast
SmallBizPod (www.smallbizpod.co.uk) is a useful site that tries to do the same thing that we do with Smibs: help small to medium sized businesses, as well as startup companies. SmallBizPod features a blog and podcast specifically for the purposes of providing useful information to small businesses. There are tips about finding funding, designing brands, neat [...]
Why I hate Ikea – but still shop there
Last week, I got an Ikea flyer. The flyer announced a sale on blinds and featured their new bedding patterns, among other things. Now, it turns out that I had been thinking about a new bedspread for quite some time. Thanks to my crazy dog, I also had two sets of blinds which were in [...]
Pretend productivity
There is so much stuff out there on the web that promises to help increase your productivity. You can sync calendars, plug people into your contact manager, plan meetings online, make to-do lists, research, and blog until your day is gone. Then, you can spend the whole evening doing the work you actually get paid [...]
Panic knows how to sell software
There are many bad examples of companies of all sizes presenting (or even trying to sell) their software online. Usually you find endless text descriptions and feature lists that require you to hunt through everything to find what you actually want to know as a possible buyer: What is it for? Does it solve my [...]
