Archive for March 2006
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Geeky and Tasty Friday
March 31st, 2006 |The folks of ThinkGeek — as usual — have added some more crazy and fun items to the catalog. Fan of Maria? Grow Your Own 1up Mushroom Kit really works. I’m guessing it works like those capsules that you put in water and open up into different spongy shapes. Geeks rarely see the light of day, [...]
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Data Center Future and Crisis Management
March 30th, 2006 |I was impressed with Ian I. Mitroff’s book, Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better from a Crisis, that I decided to feature it in the March issue of Shavlik’s The Remediator Security Digest. I think many don’t realize there’s more to crisis prep than technology and ensuring your IT systems are in order. Also in [...]
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Natural Marble Mystery
March 29th, 2006 |In an earlier entry, I pondered whether or not I could use Scrubbing Bubbles Shower Cleaner based on its confusing instructions. I emailed the company and this is the reply: When used according to label directions, SCRUBBING BUBBLES(r) Automatic Shower Cleaner can be used on cultured marble surfaces only. Cultured marble is a plastic composite, so it [...]
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Blog Book Tour: The White Rose
March 29th, 2006 |Time for the first MWTR Blog Tour stop with author Jean Hanff Korelitz who has a new book out: The White Rose. She’s a novelist who lives in Princeton, N.J., with her husband, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, and their children. I interviewed Jean Hanff Korelitz who kindly took the time to reply thoroughly and [...]
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Book Review: Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better from a Crisis
March 27th, 2006 |Crises aren’t limited to computer breaches, hurricanes, and tsunamis. Unfortunately, more crises have occurred in the past few years than in the 20 years before that. Too many organizations react to crisis instead of making crisis management a part of its organization like human resources and finance. The unusual way of doing business in the past [...]
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Book Fairs and Shopping
March 24th, 2006 |I’m exhausted. I spent the morning working at the school Book Fair and it was Grandparents Day, so lots of folks to check out. I love the Book Fair and look forward to it twice a school year. I remember them from when I was a kid as well as a student teacher in Washington, [...]
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Product Instructions
March 23rd, 2006 |I received a sample of Scrubbing Bubbles Shower Cleaner. Unlike other shower cleaners that don’t require scrubbing (spray the shower and leave it), this one only takes a press of a button and it sprays it’s magic formula in the shower and tab. Insert the cleaner refill and batteries. The device hangs from the shower rod. [...]
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Book Autographs from Afar
March 22nd, 2006 |Instead of standing in line to get an author to autograph your book, you can ask for an autograph without going anywhere. Author Margaret Atwood invented a tool for virtual autographs called LongPen. Some believe that it will end the personal contact between authors and readers. I don’t. MoneySense article on LongPen. Many of us don’t [...]
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Book Review: Blogging for Business
March 20th, 2006 |Companies like Boeing, IBM, and Stonyfield Farm make it part of their business communication strategy. With over 30 million blogs in cyberspace, businesses need to understand how blogs work and affect their own organizations. Blogging for Business targets interested business bloggers as well as businesses who understand the importance of tracking blogs. Bloggers talk about everything [...]
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Free Book Downloads
March 20th, 2006 |More authors offer a free ebook version of their book in hopes of generating buzz. Godin’s Unleashing the IdeaVirus had 400,000 downloads in 30 days thanks to buzz. Few authors have that kind of success, but this method helps get the book out there. For a short time, Scott Allen has posted an ebook version [...]
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