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Dromedary Apothecary
This is the weblog of Kit Kemper. It is generally about marketing. Marketing in the sense that pretty much everything you do as a company and more often as a person these days devolves into marketing of some sort or another. It is also about tech in much the same way as it is about marketing, technology touches more of our lives every day and where people, marketing, and technology converge there are some pretty interesting things happening.
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Updating the Site
So I have to admit the I took great pleasure in my ability to “bring the ugly” with my previous site design. However, in light of the fact that I designed it while on a train from Portland to Seattle two years ago and it was a bit unpolished and hard to read, I decided [...]
OSCON – Underpants Gnomes
A lot of people would name a session “The Underpants Gnomes Strategy Guide: An eCards Case Study” to employ a bit of shock value and pique interest in their talk, leaving the attendee no choice but to walk away disappointed. Terry Chay, however used it as an understated description of his presentation. In what was [...]
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OSCON – When Interface Design Attacks
I have never really given much thought to web design and usability. Not that I don’t think that it is important, I just always thought it was someone else’s job and that if I mimicked what other people had done, it should be right or pretty close to right. I have the feeling that is [...]
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OSCON Nauseum
I whole-heartedly endorse anyone who wants to string up the “carpet-selector” for the Oregon Convention Center by the body part deemed most painful. The repetitive pattern that seems to trail off infinitely gives me a severe case of motion (or sedentary-sickness) of some kind every time I look at anything other than the carpet itself. [...]
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“Valadating” My Feelings
Speaking of misspelling, I frequently use Y! Messenger on my cell phone to harrass and harangue my friends. It has however provided one of the biggest pet peeves in my daily existence. The developer types have successfully failed (patent pending) to spell “validating” correctly. Whenever I login to said Y! Messenger, it splashes “valadating license”. [...]
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Occasional Misspeller
So I have a tendency to misspell the word “occasional” and its many manifestations. In fact, I had to look it up for this post. It is embarrassing, I know. I know that I do it, but I cannot avoid the temptation to throw in an extra “i” or “s” or something just to make [...]
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MySQL Users Conference
I am currently at the MySQL Users Conference. I will try and get some posts up here during the week, but all the folks from MySQL Press have set-up an impromptu MySQL Press @ MySQL UserCon blog that is being updated frequently. Be sure to check it out.
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Joyce Park
I briefly met Joyce Park at VQ at OSCON this year. Not only did she strike me as brilliant, but was a lot of fun as well. She gets ringing endorsements from all the folks in the PHP community too. Unfortunately, it looks like Joyce was let go from Frienster on Monday for blogging. Both [...]
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AirPort Expresss Distress
Okay, I said that I was going to try and post two times a day so I am going to stick with it for the moment… I got my AirPort Express today and was very excited. I figured I would just play for the time being and try and run it as a client to [...]
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