Common Dream

This song had me dancing awkwardly while I did the dishes tonight. Her latest album, like the last, is one of those albums I can listen to over and over again.

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Meet Wild Boars is an awesome book about what might happen if you invite Wild Boars to your house. The book has a really conversational style, like Allan Ahlberg's books.

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I wish Twitter's web interface did icon overlays like that.

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I use my iPhone as my alarm clock, and I just realized this morning that as soon as you hit the snooze button it turns the screen off. That's a nice little touch.

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I just logged into Google Website Optimizer to look at a test we have running at work and realized that the graphs are a new feature. It's cool to be able to see your test variation conversion rates broken down by day.

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If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Jason Fried:

"The best advice I can give regarding pricing is this: Have a price. Don't be afraid to charge for your work. And make it a number you'd pay yourself"

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Loren Brichter of Tweetie fame recently announced that he would be releasing a new version of Tweetie for the iPhone and that users would have to pay for it. I was excited about the prospect of getting a new version of Tweetie, and wasn't all that concerned about putting out $2.99 or whatever it is to get it. Other users weren't so happy about the news:

But I think overall people like the idea of paying for a product they love:

At work I've been doing a lot of talking to customers lately, and I had a customer mention the fact that he had no problem paying for great software today, referring to NCover. It feels really good to have someone say that about something you work on.

Today I finally donated to KEXP. I've been listening to their stream for 5 years now, and I figured it was time to go ahead and pay a fair price for an outstanding service. The cool thing is, when I decided that I would respond to the pledge drive by paying up rather than by grumbling about the talking and the reduction in music, it felt really good.

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We've been enjoying the scratchboard art in Earl the Squirrel by Don Freeman.

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"Now you don't have to be a rich cowboy to add an authentic Western look to any jeans or jackets you wear, at a great low price."

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