Written by Nexcerpt on May 6th, 2012 in Patterns & News.
Tags: conard, economy, romney, wealth
At the moment, Conard is pushing a new book, based on the startlingly tone-deaf premise that super-wealthy people make life better for the rest of us — that having billionaires (about 400 in the US today) tends to keep life nice for the little people.
Unfortunately for Conard, the conclusion he perversely chooses to believe contradicts best practices of wealth management. More on that after some orientation to Conard’s ultra-privileged world.
Written by Nexcerpt on March 27th, 2012 in Patterns & News.
Tags: climate, forecast, temperature, weather
Here in Southwest Michigan, I watched the “weather” forecasts for 21 March 2012 (according to the Android App “News and Weather”) for the week leading up to 21 March. This is how the high temperature forecast progressed:
Written by Nexcerpt on February 12th, 2012 in Patterns & News.
…hours into the ride, Seamus apparently suffered diarrhea, which ran down the back window of the car. Romney’s sons, all under 14, howled in disgust. Romney pulled off the road into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, and they drove on to Ontario.
That may not sound like the sort of road trip you would enjoy — but now you have a chance to find out!
Written by Nexcerpt on January 22nd, 2012 in Patterns & News.
Tags: critics, dumb, newsweek, obama
Rather, most are in a huff over one word on the cover: “dumb.” That’s dumb.
And, they’re wailing about it across social media — an “Occupy Dumbness” movement — thus increasing sales and traffic for Newsweek, which they claim to hate with a vengeance. That’s incredibly dumb.
It’s even more dumb than it sounds — because most of them obviously didn’t read the article.
Written by Nexcerpt on December 2nd, 2010 in Life & Lessons.
Tags: debra romer, kalamazoo, music
Note: If you [Share] this on Facebook, but don’t see a thumbnail image, try sharing this short link instead: http://bit.ly/gTUr7Q That solved it for me! Some disagreement there between FB and WP; troubleshooting my WP plugins now 
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Written by Nexcerpt on December 3rd, 2010 in Patterns & News.
Tags: google, google news, mark nepo, search, search quality
Also good news that Mark Nepo’s Book of Awakening continues moving up lists such as USA Today Bestsellers from ABC News, where it is Number 23, and Publishers Weekly Bestsellers in Trade Paperbacks from San Francisco Gate, where Nepo is Number one!
Written by Nexcerpt on December 7th, 2010 in Patterns & News.
Tags: danny sullivan, facebook, friends
Danny makes a number of stinging observations about the perverse distortions of reality euphemistically called “FaceBook Upgrades,” concluding:
It’s f’ing simple. Ask people. Ask people what they want. Hey, you want a strip of pictures at the top of your page? No? Click this X to get rid of it. Want this box of friends to show? Here’s an X to get rid of it. Is this stuff linked to privacy settings? Then make the X or whatever take you directly to those controls.
Facebook exhaustion. I swear, this is what’s killing you for me.
Danny, it gets worse: the F’s at FB took away the only [X] that had any real value.
Written by Nexcerpt on December 7th, 2010 in Patterns & News.
Tags: google, morgan stanley, stock market, wall street
Google Added To “Best Ideas” List At Morgan Stanley – Eric Savitz – Tech Musings – Forbes.
Forbes shows the idiotic audacity to insinuate that “GOOG is up $14.15, or 2.5%, to $592.51” because “Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt” likes it? Consider the implications of asserting that, “shares are getting a boost this morning from Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt”? (Hmm… which is the source of the idiocy, and which of the audacity: Forbes, or Eric Savitz?)
Written by Nexcerpt on January 8th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: arizona, giffords, laughner, murder
Here’s his YouTube channel: Jared Lee Loughner’s YouTube channel.
Loughner’s only “Favorite” video, “America: Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!“
Written by Nexcerpt on January 28th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: adsense, google, googlewhack
The complaint came from… well, can you guess? No, not Microsoft — neither Ask.com nor Apple nor Facebook nor Twitter. The complaint came from none other than Google itself.
I wish I could address this response to the person who sent me the complaint. But, for reasons that will become obvious, I can’t; they’re anonymous and unreachable. So, I’ll blog it instead. If enough readers like, cite, link, and retweet this article, perhaps Google will get the message.
Written by Nexcerpt on January 29th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: adsense, google, googlewhack
Twenty hours after my Adsense Nonsense post, the following surprisingly humble bit of contrition arrived (I’ll give it the same conversational treatment I gave original notice):
Hello Mr Stock, Please accept out apologies for an erroneous notification that was sent out to you on January 28th in regards to your site http://googlewhack.com.
I love getting “out” apologies. That is way out, man!
Seriously, nice to see a typo in there. It’s a relief to realize that some human is involved in this process.
Written by Nexcerpt on February 16th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: design, facebook, friends, interface
We may be seeing the limits of scalability, due in part to design failure, play out at Facebook right now.
Written by Nexcerpt on March 12th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: amendments, bankruptcy, community, economic, education, legislation, Michigan
Writing for Fox News in Detroit, Charlie Duff (“no liberal by any stretch of the imagination, but also no conservative”) wrote:
In Michigan, the emergency manager will have total power of the purse: with absolute authority the emergency manager will be able to sell assets like the water department, undo union contracts, abrogate collective bargaining agreements without discussion including those of police and fire. More worrisome still, the emergency manager will be able to dissolve local governments.
You needn’t have progressive DNA to find the bill horrifying. Still, the worst may be what was nearly mistakenly (or truly intentionally) left out.
Written by Nexcerpt on April 2nd, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: bankrupt, economy, wall street, wealth
Written by Nexcerpt on April 6th, 2011 in Dating & Online, Patterns & News.
Tags: dating language design maps
The project is by R. Luke DuBois. It’s a promising concept, weakly implemented. It shouts, in pale grey blue and mauve, why artists who lack analytical skills should stay out of the infographic business.
Written by Nexcerpt on April 20th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: development, golf, Michigan, wetland
Below are my comments on Harbor Shores’ first wetland permit request, as I submitted back in 2005. Unfortunately, all the worst has come to pass.
Written by Nexcerpt on April 28th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: passport citizen document conspiracy
Written by Nexcerpt on June 3rd, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: bing, google, schema, search, structure, yahoo
Summary: more evidence that corporations should not be in charge of Anything Important ™.
Written by Nexcerpt on September 27th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: engineering, music, piano, quality
Written by Nexcerpt on October 6th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: hate, religion, steve jobs, twitter
Irony of Irony of… Idiocy. Margie Phelps announces that Westboro Baptist Church will picket Steve Jobs’ funeral.. On Twitter. From an iPhone?!? More…
Written by Nexcerpt on December 7th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: growth, history, launch, linkedin
Written by Nexcerpt on December 14th, 2011 in Patterns & News.
Tags: dell, service, spam, warranty
I’ve never needed or purchased (or regretted the lack of) any extended warranty.
After being such a great customer, can Dell really not excuse me from their infernal maintenance upselling spam campaign?
