This is a test
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Three days into my moratorium on sugar and flour, someone sent me a cookie bouquet!
No way am I giving in, especially not this early.
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Quote of the day
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Quote of the day
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
It is noteworthy that in all the glaring headlines and TV news media’s Pecksniffian commentary about Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion scam and now R. Allen Stanford’s multi-billion dollar gold brick, not one word has been heard about the federal government’s own ongoing confidence scheme. The recent “bailouts” of banks, mortgage companies and automakers, together with […]
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On failure and growth
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I love this quotation from Joseph Epstein (via my friends Chris Yeh and Ben Casnocha):
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, or the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to […]
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Short-term sacrifice
Posted on February 25th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I’m not a practicing Catholic, but I decided to give up sugar and flour for Lent. I can give up anything for 40 days. (Usually, after 40 days, I’m so pleased with the outcome that I see no reason to go back to the old substance. I’m hoping this is the case with sugar and […]
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Tearing down the British Establishment (Or: A girl can dream!)
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I was delighted this week to receive the full text, in my email, of one of Dr. Sean Gabb’s recent speeches on the British Establishment and how it might be overthrown. Sean is a master of winding people up (including me, oftentimes), but he is very frequently dead right. Even when I disagree with him […]
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Hateration (or: Obvious things I didn’t find quite so obvious but had to pay a lot of money to figure out)
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Alice Bachini-Smith is so right here:
It’s a very sad but very true fact that some of the worst haters are ex-friends/family/close people. As you grow up and learn to be a better person, there will always be those who just can’t stand you changing because (a) they do not want to adapt themselves enough to […]
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The personal side of work news
Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Nokia is the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer. So when they announced today their new on-device marketplace where all Nokia users will go to buy applications, music, videos, ringtones and more, it was pretty awesome for Qik to be part of the announcement as one of the featured apps. (Other partners in the announcement included […]
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Twestival thanks
Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Something I’ve been doing in my free time is trying to round up donations for Twestival, the global tweet-up which is happening in 175+ cities around the world today, with all proceeds benefiting charity: water. It’s a wonderful cause.
So many people were SO generous when I asked for donations - including Shaquille O’Neal (yes, that […]
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On Jennifer Aniston
Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Wait, don’t go! This is really quite good insight on how “the media” (I hate that phrase, but it applies here) can decide who you are and then run it into the ground. Seriously, will Jennifer Aniston ever be allowed any dignity if the press has any say in it? I really cannot imagine so, […]
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The definitive post on how to make money blogging
Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
The closing paragraph is pretty dead-on, but read the whole thing.
(I was on the phone with someone yesterday and was referring to something else Dave Winer once blogged. I said, “I disagree with Dave’s opinions a lot, but when I agree with him, I really agree with him.” So it is in this case.)
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Qik and Boingo launch partnership; get 30 days free on Boingo Mobile
Posted on February 10th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
This is a pretty sweet announcement I was very excited to make for Qik: We’ve gone into partnership with Boingo so that our users can stream live video from their cell phones over Boingo’s 85,000+ wifi connections around the world. Even better, you get 30 days of Boingo Mobile for free if you sign up […]
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Missing out
Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
Hillary has been visiting Nancy in Portland for more than a week. I was not able to join them. This kind of kills me.
The last time the three of us got to hang out was in September of 2006. (Not that Hillary and Nancy are just “hanging out”. They’re both working and getting stuff done. […]
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I love both of these
Posted on February 7th, 2009 by Jackie Danicki
I admitted to my fiance today, “I don’t think I feel comfortable unless I have a project to stress over.”
He just made this face, like “Why are you telling me stuff I realized years ago?”
and
But, hey, if I were to stop and ask myself what the point is to everything that gets posted here, maybe […]
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