It is interesting how often people attract to the word free, even if the product or service isn’t worth the savings. Unfortunately, many forget that time is worth more than money.

Short URLs are the new craze. People convert URLs and don’t give much thought about the service they are using. Will it be around in two years? What happens if it isn’t? Why not use your own short URLs?

One of the hard components of having your own business is being able to accurately access a situation and project future maneuvers. Contingency prevention is important.

Everyone has an opinion and it is common for writers to express their opinions online. One common problem is when the writer allows their passion (emotion) about a topic to take precedence over their ability to think objectively.

What do you want to write about? This is a common question writers ask. When I start a new project I take a lot of time trying to define what the site is going to be about because changing focus after you have readers might not be an easy thing to do. An example: There [...]

This is an entry I’ve been wanting to make for a while, but I keep forgetting. Thanks to Jay’s Twitter message, I remembered the topic. He twittered the following: Everyone who thinks it’s so funny to say “BUY A MAC!” when I ask for PC advice, my faves are a tribute to you! http://twitter.com/jsmooth995/favorites If [...]

I wrote an article on Getting Stuff Done and I received requests to go into more detail. Responding to those requests I wrote a second article on 3by9 called Getting Things Done: Lacking Discipline? In the first article I talked about organization. In the second article I talked about dealing with things one might not [...]

Picking the right content management system is important. I started off with Movable Type, moved to pMachine, upgraded to ExpressionEngine, moved to WordPress, ending up back to Expression Engine. I gave some serious thought to what I wanted to do with Not Too Geeky and then compared the major content management systems (CMS) to see [...]

The calm after the storm. Placing the new 9rules members, my daughter’s birthday. I’ve been very busy. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been following the conversations going on recently. Lots of talk about blog networks. I have a pet peeve. Figured I might as well discuss it. First, what is a blog network? In my [...]