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The number of trains passing through downtown Durham per day = the number of time I’m on the phone.

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I went to the website of the Davey Awards mentioned in my last post. In 2007, in the Print/Collateral category alone, they had 153 gold award “winners.”  For the silver awards—again, just in one category—I lost count somewhere after 400, and I was only in the M’s.
Why don’t they just say “Pay us an [...]

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I got a solicitation in the mail to enter into a competition called the “Davey Awards.” The idea is Davey vs. Goliath, you know, the small scrappy upstart vs. the BIG GIANT.
To qualify as being a “small” graphic design firm, you have to have less than $5 million in billings.
Phew. And for a minute there [...]

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I posted the other day about age discrimination. A 50+ friend of mine who has struggled with this issue commented to me via email—he didn’t want to make a public post lest some employer find it via Google. He also sent me a link to this article.
The gist of the article is (1) people don’t [...]

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Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]

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I got a letter in the snail mail today inviting me to join the National Association of Professional Women. The letter states “There is no fee to be included.”
They forgot to add the disclaimer “…until we charge your credit card. But by then you’ll have forgotten that you ever signed up for this and HA [...]

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This is just a post to remind myself yes, I do have a blog, and I should post on it once in a blue moon. Been uber-focused on learning how to create templates in Joomla lately, with my own site and a couple of pro bono sites as fodder. And if you have no idea [...]

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From a credit card offer, which includes 0% APR on transfers until 2009: “We may change your account terms, including rates, at any time for any reason. This means that your account rates, including any promotional rates offered, are not guaranteed.”
In other words: whatever we promise you today, we could be lying through our teeth [...]

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9 a.m. already.
Write proposal or pay bills?
I need more coffee.

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Jackhammers downstairs
My skull is vibrating, too
Turns my brain to mush

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