Archive for July 2006
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Freelance Writer Rates
July 31st, 2006 |I still haven’t gotten comfortable with quoting prices after exactly one year today of going full-time as a freelancer. Since we all learn how to write in school, many people think they can write articles, web content, newsletters and whathaveya. I think that’s part of why writers struggle with pricing — because businesses believe they [...]
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Web 2.0 Logos
July 28th, 2006 |What does a Web 2.0-style logo look like? Here’s Part I and Part II of a collection from Flickr. Yay Hooray has over 200 posts of people having a good time Web 2.0-ifying existing logos. [Links from Web 2.0 blog ] I was wrong. Gradients and the wet floor effect appear in most of the logos. [...]
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Email Newsletters, Magazines and Blogs
July 27th, 2006 |The Diva Marketing Blog commented that the newest issue of Advertising Age sounded too familiar and it wasn’t just one article. It turns out the whole magazine appeared in its email newsletter and discussed in blogs. This is a challenge for businesses that diversify their marketing efforts as readers prefer to receive information in various ways: [...]
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Summer Read: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
July 26th, 2006 |If you spend your book reading time on non-fiction like me, here’s an opportunity to read a short fiction that provides a nice summer read and an history lesson. I probably spent about two to three hours reading the book. See’s story explores the culture and lives of the people living in 19th-century rural China. The [...]
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Too Many Hands on a Project
July 26th, 2006 |How to Ruin Web Design — The Design Curve is a simple and accurate view of what happens to a design when more people get involved in providing feedback and the time spent in changing the design. [Link from Web 2.0 Blog] If you don’t read the rest of this entry — this picture tells all [...]
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How to Lose the ‘ums’ and ‘uh’ from Speech
July 25th, 2006 |Uh… what do I blog about today. Um… I’m thinking. Thank goodness there’s no sound in this blog so you don’t have to hear “uh” and “um.” People do notice when a speaker uses those crutch sounds to cover up the silence or collecting your thoughts. Even my daughter who was about 9 or 10 [...]
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Secret Writing and Shorthand
July 24th, 2006 |I just finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan for my reading group, which is about the only time I get to read fiction. The book is wonderful and educational read in under 300 pages. Author Lisa See shows the reader what life was like in China during the days of footbinding, arranged marriages, [...]
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Company Name At Last?
July 22nd, 2006 |I think I finally came upon a company name. It may not matter much to you, but isn’t meryl.net kinda dull? The only reason I registered that as a company name is because it was all I had at the time. There’s one good thing about meryl.net in spite of its vanity name — it’s [...]
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Pennies Lose Value
July 21st, 2006 |I started collecting pennies when I was in grade school. The Scholastic Book Fair arrived at my school where I found a three-fold penny folder. I have it in the house somewhere in a safe place. The folder resembles the one in the picture, except it’s brown and goes further back — maybe 1900? The [...]
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Paste Special in Microsoft Word
July 20th, 2006 |Once I got out of automated mode, I woke up and realized that I often use Paste Special with unformatted text when working in MS Word. It became a habit like CTRL+V, CTRL+X, and CTRL+C. To do Paste Special without formatting, I clicked CTRL+V to paste, selected the Paste Special icon (smart tag) and selected [...]
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