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Bored at Work?

February 2nd, 2010
bored at work

Bored at Work? Not as bored as this guy.

I don’t know whether to be proud or depressed, but I do know that I’ve got a great and haunting memory to recall the next time I think I’m bored while coding HTML or something similar. The other night I discovered the true peak of tedium.

You see, it was inventory day at my retail store and of course, everything needs to be precisely counted. Understandable.

After counting DVD’s, blue-rays and other mildly annoying things, I was then chosen for what I hope was a task that nobody else had the mental stamina to undertake.

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I had to count prepaid phone cards. Hundreds – actually thousands of those $10 and $20 top-up cards for prepaid cell phones. The final number came out to be three thousand, three hundred and something. » Read more: Bored at Work?

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Dirty Floors & Dirty Websites

January 31st, 2010
Dirty Floor!

How clean is your floor?

How quick do you form an opinion? Do you think that you really care what a store’s floor looks like? Would that affect your decision on whether to buy or not? Probably not consciously.  Maybe not at all, but let us marvel at the complexity of the human brain for a sec. Before you even go into a retail store, you just KNOW that there’s probably 10 places within a 30 minute drive you could go to to look at the same item (even ebay and online stores) – you have options as to where to buy, but you end up only buying from one place. Could it be that their floor was the cleanest? » Read more: Dirty Floors & Dirty Websites

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SEO Blogging Goes Mobile!

January 29th, 2010
The newest must-have blogging tool

The newest, must have blogging tool.

Let me set the scene for you. Late January 2010 in a small city in Ontario, Canada. A young-ish man is at his day job as a retail salesperson, working on commission. There’s a snowstorm outside. Not a customer in sight for this poor soul. But he’s not complaining, because while everyone else is texting their friends about how boring work is, this guy is posting to his blog from his blackberry. The boss walks by, he casually sets the blackberry down and smiles as his boss scolds another worker for being on facebook at one of the nearby computer terminals. So, even though this commissioned salesperson isn’t making a dime tonight, he knows his continued blogging will continue to draw visitors to his site for years to come through the magic of backlinks – thereby making him at least a little coin for his time. » Read more: SEO Blogging Goes Mobile!

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3D Avatar & Writing for the Web

January 28th, 2010

Ok so I just saw the movie avatar in 3D. Awesome movie, really enjoyed it. The 3D wasn’t overdone, it didn’t detract from the overall experience of the movie like some do. It seemed very natural, as if it were meant to be. Then that got me thinking about keywords vs. content (on the way home from the movie, of course – much too much excitement during) So many times on sites like ezine articles I really get the feeling like I’m watching a crappy 3D movie where there’s always a sword being pointed at me for no reason at all.  » Read more: 3D Avatar & Writing for the Web

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