New Site Discovery: Wake Up Later. I haven't added a new site to my feed list for a long time, but Wake Up Later from a Web Freelancer named Samuel Ryan makes the cut. "10 Absolute 'Nos!' for Freelancers" has good advice for freelance web designers and developers, though perhaps "10 [Almost Always] Absolute 'Nos!'" might have been more accurate. The post was dugg and Ryan blogged what he learned from it. One more Wake Up Later post to mention is "43 Things That Run My Website Business," which reminds me that I need to upgrade Photoshop before the tax year ends.
Time to check out Beyond Compare. It seems my world is an ongoing series of Community Server upgrades (which is actually a good thing), and WinMerge has been an essential upgrade tool. It has done everything I needed it to do, but following the Beyond Compare links from this post from Ben Vollmer makes me realize that I need Beyond Compare in my perpetual upgrade world as well.
The Yogi Berra School of Persuasive Writing. I loved this post, mainly because I love every quote I every heard attributed to Yogi Berra. Sayings like “You can observe a lot by watching.” This post takes popular Yogi quotes and applies them to copy writing and marketing.
Scoble's "Brand Promise of Apple" Post. I don't subscribe to Scoble anymore, but posts like this one that I encounter on TechMeme describing Apple's manufactured myth of cool means if I ever see him in a hotel lounge during some conference, his drinks are on me. I'm a bit sick of Apple Cool myself, as well as what Baratrunde Thurston captures in this YouTube 10 minute stand-up video titled "The Smugness of Apple." Page one of TechMeme has been featuring Leopard problems since its release. The board is clear today, but yesterday's link was "Apple Leopard: From Questionable Customer Service to Questionable OS?"
The Angry Hacker's "In defense of Vista" post. I was at Circuit City recently scoping out my next PC when I "discovered" Vista. Readers of this blog know I haven't exactly embraced Vista, but on that Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 3 gigs of RAM and 21" monitor, it was sweeeet! Like the Angry Hacker says in defense of Vista, "Too slow - No, it's not. Your computer is too slow. Vista is not meant to run on a 5-year-old machine." I'd revise that to "not meant to run on a 1-year-old machine," but I definitely had a new appreciation for Vista that day and look forward to using it everyday. Now when I upgrade Vista Home Premium installed on that Circuit City HP PC to Vista Ultimate and everything still works I'll be ecstatic.