The Post Office is one of those government entities that people love to hold up as models of bureaucracy, inefficiency and incompetence. Historically, I’ve been a contrarian about this, because except for one letter that arrived late about 20 years ago, I had never had a single problem with postal delivery.
Then I moved to Durham.
I [...]

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I haven’t done much of a what-the-heckamagooza I’m doing blog post lately, so here it is.
I ended 2008 not having met my absurdly lofty business goals for the year, on the other hand, I made about the same as in 2007 while spending more time on personal projects. I learned to build a website in [...]

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I want to emphasize this point: I was NOT looking for a job. Heck, I’m scheduled to speak at an IABC meeting this month about the joys of not having a job.
A couple of weeks ago I got an email from someone saying “we have a job opening, here’s the description, are you open to [...]

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Hello?
Hello, I need a brilliant designer with moderate rates who has two hours to spare between now and Monday to design a logo.
Sorry, I take a lot longer than two hours to design a logo.
Click.
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Don’t get your business card printed on some super-glossy paper, or cool-looking vellum, that is IMPOSSIBLE to write on, so when I come across your card 8 months from now, instead of my little scribbled note to jog my memory about where I met you, I’ll just say WTF? and toss your card in the [...]

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I was going to make a snarky post about my latest descent into the depths of customer service hell, but the sun has come to that part of the sky where it feels like I’m getting a sunburn on my right arm. That’s because when my studio was moved to another floor during the renovations, [...]

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Thank goodness for free wifi. Not one but two client emergencies already, the first Monday morning of my vacation. But somehow, sitting in a cafe on 18th St. in San Francisco, downloading files while Barry reads the Chronicle, doesn’t quite seem like work.
I’m anxious to get out an exhaust myself climbing hills (in between [...]

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As someone whose work experience includes both a 108-hour week and a 28-hour day, I applaud the efforts of California workers to actually get paid overtime for the utterly abusive expectations of workers in the high-tech industry.
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There’s a bug in my monitor. Not ON my monitor, IN my monitor. Where I can’t swat it. It’s crawling all over my open windows and leaving bug cooties. When it dies, I hope it has the decency to do so in the corner of the screen.
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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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