Don Xml's Grok This

Man, the title of this Facbook Group says it all: I Don't care How Comfortable Crocs Are, You Look Like A Dumbass.  290,000+ members and counting.

I'm going to be out of town on July 21st, but you know as soon as I get back I'll be heading off to the local movie theater to see this movie.  When Jay & Sient Bob Strikes Back came out, I made the first showing (11:30AM) an event for my develeopment team (that was one great group of guys), and we were just about the only people ...

Wow, it has been a couple days since I blogged last.  Last week was incredibly busy, and I have a lot of stuff to blog about, so expect lots new entries, with one big scoop that is pretty exciting. Quick summary of last week.  Tuesday night I did my first presentation of the Guidance Automation Toolkit at the N3UG meeting and they even ...

One of the things that really bug me is when owners of professional sporting team complain about half empty arenas.  It doesn’t take an MBA degree to understand the simple laws of economics.  In order to sell all of your inventory (aka the tickets) you will have to set the price at a level your customers are willing to pay.  ...

I can't believe that is has been 20 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.  Seems just like yesterday I was in college at Colorado School of Mines, and while eating a late breakfast (after some early classes) I happen to catch a glimpse of the video on a television in the lounge.  Like a lot of folks, I got use to the idea of ...

It has been just over a month since I decided to try to optimize the advertising revenue for this site, and I’d have to say that overall it has been extremely successful.  But, I know that I’m nowhere near being done (my goal is to have Steve Pavlina like growth for 2006).  The optimization has three main parts: Create ...

In America, when there is a perceived problem, the government tries to jump in and legislate it away.  With the scourge of telemarketing abusing the phone system, in the government’s infinity wisdom, they created the Do Not Call Registry.  Instead of stopping telemarketers from calling your home, it just increases the cost of doing ...

If you haven’t had the chance to read Freakonomics, I’d suggest that you add it to your shortlist of ready reading material (there is even a matching blog).  What the author does is tie seemingly unrelated events to their effects (exposing hidden incentives behind all sorts of behavior).  There are lots of examples out there, just ...

If you are reading this blog entry, it is obvious that you don’t already subscribe to Kevin Smith’s blog (My Boring Ass Life), otherwise you would already know this little tid bit of info.  Kevin has released a 2 minute teaser for Clerks 2.  Don’t worry, there isn’t any spoilers in the teaser, so just go ahead and ...

A couple months back John Scalzi (my favorite, new, sci-fi author) had a blog post with a picture of his daughter and some of her new “friends”, plush toy Giant Microbes.  The obviously staged, frightened look on her face while looking at the giant microbes was priceless, but John’s comment “I do sometimes wonder ...