Bob Potter

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Unknown

I don’t think the job of packaging is to please your boss. I think you must please the retailer, but most of all, attract and delight and sell to the browsing, uncommitted new customer. via Seth’s blog

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And finally, in IE8, here’s the absured syntax we can use to target and clear floats specifically in Microsft’s latest browser via Dan Cederholm in Handcrafted CSS:
* /_**(.)/*+:@//\*+html~/rofl**/ {
    clear: please !reallyreallyimportantomg;
    }

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I had now idea that a guy like Adam, who’s face looks as smooth as a baby’s bottom (I wouldn’t know actually because I’ve never touched it) could grow something so woolly. Truly amazing!

“I hope we end the oil age not because we run out of oil, but because we find something better. [Honda] can’t be reactionary. We have to be visionary. We have to seek out the future. When there’s no more oil, it’s already too late.” Takanobu Ito, CEO Honda (via Dustin)

Dear Foursquare…if I’m ever framed for murder, will you act as my alibi in court so long as I’ve checked in somewhere other than the murder scene?

Because if so, that’s the only reason I can think of why I’d want to tell the world where I’m at every hour of every day.

Ravi Zacharias is one of the most prolific and eloquent Christian speakers, one whom I enjoy listening speak very much. Recently though I haven’t been listening, in fact I haven’t even been subscribed to his podcasts. The other day I started searching for his radio programs on my iPod touch, but couldn’t locate either of his two podcasts: Just Thinking and Let My People Think. Then I looked through the iTunes store (on my computer) but couldn’t find them there either.

Heading on over to his site, I found the podcast page where I learned you could subscribe to a podcast within iTunes, even if the podcast can’t be found in the iTunes store (I didn’t know I could do such a thing). Here is a tutorial on how to do manually subscribe.

1. Open up iTunes
2. Click on Advanced ==> Subscribe to Podcast:

3. Copy and paste the RSS link provided by the website, in this case: http://www.rzim.org/rss/RSS-LMPT.aspx and http://www.rzim.org/rss/RSS-JT.aspx into the pop-up box:

4. Click OK
5. Click on Podcasts in the left navigation pane:

6. You should now see your podcast/s downloading the most recent podcast.
6.1 If you would like to download all of the available shows for that podcast, click the arrow before the podcast title and then click Get All.

Yup, it’s sad but true. I’ve been installing Wordpress based sites using my hosting companies automatic installer (one of those great features that lets anyone act like a web designer without really knowing the basics of web development).

So today, after being inspired by this beautiful theme and the fact that it would be in my best interest to simplify my life (I have two other blogs and Facebook) I setup this site.

But then I ran into a weird problem at my host. Because the domain was already established it wouldn’t let me auto-install WP. My only option was to try a manual installation. I had been putting off this moment for the better part of a year because I was afraid I might mess up and leave a site inoperable.

Turns out it was a lot easier than I thought.

If experimentation is the best teacher, then this a good lesson for me. My tolerance for risk is fairly low and I am often times too quick to calculate the risk. If there is the impression there is too much to lose, I’ll hold off until it becomes a necessity to act or until I have enough information to know what I am doing. In other words, I think it’s time to read Blink.