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Wishing you all the more success in 2008. Keep doing what you do best!

Wow, what a post Doug! I really like your attitude.

You know, there's a great overlap between Christianity and Islam when it comes to family and social values. A lot of what you said you believe in exemplify many of Islam's teachings. It's funny that sometimes non-Mulsims like you do a better job of demonstrating Islamic values than some Muslims themeselves.

So for this, I salute you! Keep up the positive attitude. You're a great blogger, and you sure as hell sound like a hell of a dad.

Cards look very great! Good luck on your conference.

Thanks Doug. That little link made my day :)

Love your goal orientation. Keep it up you'll get there.

Oh man that is so sad. Not the broken toy, but the kid laughing at you and your crappy meal :)

Hey Doug, you keep up the metaphor for few more posts, and imma start to really think there's something going on between you two! I mean that in the real sense :)

I just followed your link and tried News Hutch. I must say it's pretty neat and simple feed reader. However, I've said far too many times, what I like about Google Reader is the news river which I've yet to see any other RSS reader properly implement. I don't want to think which feed I'd like to read. I just want to read!

Thank you thank you thank you!

Finally! Yes, sys-con is the most annoying website I've ever had to wade through. Did you see the big *** footer on that one? And the site doesn't even render correctly in Firefox.

Wow, you nailed it with that meeting thing. Where I work, if you decline a meeting, it's considered rude, much like cursing!

You go to the meeting, 5 minutes into it, personal life stories come up and it turns into a bonding thing. That irritates the living hell out of me! A 10 minute meeting often extends to one hour because of that!

I gotta start declining meeting that either have no stated purpose or agenda, or ones I'm not really needed in. That of course, unless the request comes from my boss :)

Good work Doug. Should we call it Extreme Wordpress Makeover :)

Couldn't agree more. Kathy's blog was one of the very first I subscribed to, and it has proven to be a gem ever since. I remember reading no less than a dozen articles and going "wow" right after that. It's one of those blogs that never cease to amaze you with the depth and understanding of business-customer relations and software usability.

Truth be told, I'm really seriously pissed at whoever did this and caused this to come to an end. I guess all we can do now is dig up the old stuff and learn, kinda like what you did here.

I'd be really interested in the WordPress plugin you mentioned. It'd odd that everything about WP rocks except it's posting interface! My problems with it is that it's too cluttered, and you can't eliminated the clutter and focus on the your writing.

Hmm sounds pretty interesting. I'm looking forward to changing my current host and what better than a word of mouth recommendation from a technology expert. I think imma take advantage of this offer.

Thanks Doug.

Fabulous post! Especially loved the analogy.

I think what product managers have difficulty in nowadays is precisely defining when is the right time for extra the "bike" features and how to plug 'em in the already existing features that their users have grown accustomed to.

So a blogger's aim is strike a balance point right in the middle of the triangle, I assume that's why you've drawn those elements in a triangle right?

Oops the lines did not come up in the previous comment. But they're the same as yours with the domain difference.

Doug

I just got around to do a similar thing. I installed fine and everything. I put those two lines in my WordPress header:




Tested the login worked fine.

Tried WikiTravel, entered my configured OpenID user name (alhome.net) it redirected me then to my own site as if nothing happened.

Am I missing something?

Had me laughing and really entertained..

And I instantly connected to the one with the "I Guess That’s It". Last time I used it, it took 'em about 5 seconds to realize it it was really "it" and clap a little as I dragged myself off stage.

Now I know better, and I'm going to take all those points in consideration in my upcoming speech.

Thanks alot!

Maybe you can bribe your back in with that half a buck you made ..

oh wait you didn't get it anyway .. damn man .. now that hurts lol

Very inspirational piece. I like the way you visualized the layers and the work we do that adds to the "chipping" of these layers.

Care to share your breeding tips?

So what do you do? Put 'em in a room, lock it up, come back end of the day and bam, 10 little cute kittens staring right up at ya? :)

I guess the lesson I'd take home is that it all starts with great content, period!

Awesome post Doug!! You kinda summarized pretty much the whole PC-Mac and iPhone debate with one short and entertaining post. Well done!

Two of my all-time favorites! The kinds of blogs that you can't help but read each and every interesting post they have.