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A couple of years ago I was working with one of my small contractor clients looking over his financials from the year 2008 and plugged his numbers into a Apple Numbers 09 spreadsheet application to test out the charting function and thought the chart I created had an interesting point to make about markup in [...]

Once upon a time the big concern in designing and deploying your website was how would it look in all the different web browsers that were out there and how would it look when your users went to print out the page. Times change and the concerns a web designer/producer faces continue to change too. [...]

I’m putting together a Christmas/Winter reading list for 2008-9. It consists both of books I’ve reently read or am reading right now that I would recommend to other contractors and some new books I’ve just discovered and plan to read. The first book I’ll mention comes from that last category in that I haven’t read [...]

Introduction The Story Begins Part 1 – Labor Costs Part 2 – Fixed Overhead Costs Part 3 – Net Profit and Determining the Selling Price for a Job Part 4 – Comparing The Two Different Methods in Practice Job #1 – A Project with Labor, Materials, and SubContracting in the Same Ratio That Bill Used [...]

It should come as no real surprise to anyone that knows me that I a big Macintosh enthusiast and that perhaps what I appreciate most about the "Mac Experience" is it’s "usability" so when I spotted the article Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS article this morning that Juul Coolen wrote for Smashing Magazine [...]

Wow! Benjamin Zander (co-author along with his wife Rosamund Stone Zander of the great book The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life. gives us a Ted Talk! (via LifeHacker) (via LifeHacker) If the words “classical music appreciation” make your eyes glaze over, conductor Benjamin Zander will change your mind in this short talk [...]

Just the other day I was checking in to one of the environmental blogs I read and ran across an interesting post about “An insanely clever bike-advocacy ad from the U.K” : Do the test | Gristmill: The environmental news blog  I actually knew as soon as I saw just what the test was going [...]

Cleaning up and tossing some old files from the late eighties and early nineties I had stored in the basement I found this quote written on a scrap of paper at the bottom of one pile. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

Mark Hayward from a blog article on Self Branding – "Branding can be described as the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected to a particular product or company. Effective branding serves to create assumptions, excitement, associations, and expectations that are ingrained in consumers and generated with the mere mention of a company and its [...]

In the Critical Chain Project Managment Yahoo group that I am subscribed too I just read a great post by Michael Carroll that I thought everyone here might benefit from reading. The topic his post was in response to was How common is it to have "No plans"? (The emphases placed are mine.) I have [...]