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You Want A Website, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

February 5th, 2010

And thus begins a 10 part series that will convert web users to web masters. Even you.

Part One: Everyone Has Something to Share with the World

Give me a person and I can give you a website. Not literally of course. What I mean to say is that you have experienced several years of a life so unique that it can only be called yours – even though there’s six and a half billion people in the world. So what? Well, there’s something that you have that nobody else does – and whatever that is will be inherently interesting to a lot of people. For example: » Read more: You Want A Website, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

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Bored at Work?

February 2nd, 2010
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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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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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Paperless Office

December 10th, 2009

I was just working away and noticed that, at my day job, I have several binders full of paper, a drawer full of documents, a locker full of business cards and training materials – but here, online, I have Google. Google calender that syncs with my blackberry. Document storage. Picture storage, email, news, weather, sports… Just kind of struck me as being amazing – and the best part is, Google organizes everything for me! I honestly am a messy person, but in Google, all my contacts are alphabetized, I don’t have to struggle to read my own writing, I can’t lose anything or spill coffee on everything. It’s just really cool. What’s really messed up is that it’s free. Kudos Google, you make me a better me.

-Peter Pyne
pyneonline.com webmaster

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