Some marketing advice

Can you suggest opportunities for improvement in THIS promotion??:

As a Gift for your Birthday, please accept 15% off on any services, procedures or supplements including colon hydrotherapy....

P.S. Don't eat too much cake and ice cream!

To quote Mr. Bill

"Maverick" regresses into meaning "impulsive" ...in the strand of W! oh the agony!!

“They didn’t seriously consider her until four or five days from the time she was picked, before she was asked, maybe the Thursday or Friday before,” said a Republican close to the campaign. “This was really kind of rushed at the end, because John didn’t get what he wanted. He wanted to do Joe or Ridge.”

More data to disrupt my idealism....

is it "Me" or....

...isn't one of the purported benefits of MobileMe integration with your office (as in CAPITAL "O" ....MS Office ...yeah, had to type it ugh) apps? You know, the Outlook calendar integration and all....but when I try to log in to MobileMe at work, it tells me I need to use Firefox or Safari.

Now of course we know IE is inferior as are most MS products but again, wasn't this kind of integration the benefit of MobileMe? Did anyone do a workflow analysis?? I propose AAPL start addressing that before going on to get a more serious name for the product.

Recipe for survival

Belly laughs.

House music.

Thanks for hittin' #1 tonite DL! My cheeks still hurt.

What about <...> don't you understand?

Numerous friends are attempting interventions to jolt me out of my "assume the best" daze; most notable was this beautifully-worded plea from Bob: "Diane, she's a creationist, for God's sake!"

Like the holdouts in New Orleans, I so want this time to be different. To keep my little cave reality intact...to click my heels and be back in Kansas, where ethics and character live....

online stream of consciousness

ok ok - maybe it isn't "conviction" ....my last post evoked images of authoritarian leaders who had great conviction...or even W...

Perhaps it is "character" then which captures the essence of a leader (person) I can support ...and by that, I mean someone who is indeed willing to sacrifice image, power, personal comfort to do the "right" thing - while also willing to change his/her mind based on reasonable principles, rather than force the "right" thing to be his/her thing.

James Joyce could do stream of consciousness!

experience vs. conviction

A brief call with my non-registered non-voting sister compelled me to address this question: what makes Palin's inexperience better than Obama's inexperience?

Conviction. For example, I want someone to answer a question when asked rather than dance around it, and to make sacrifices to do the right thing.

If someone lacks experience, they can surround themselves with the right people to fill the knowledge gaps; but if they lack conviction, all the knowledge in the world won't lead them to make the right choices.