http://www.derekscruggs.com Answering questions about entrepreneurship, internet marketing, PHP/MySQL and doing business with China. (How's that for diversity?) Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:27:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great idea:Many years ago, David Allen shared with me that one of the first things he did when planning his first book, the best-selling, Getting Things Done, was to write the Wall Street Journal review of his book, first. He wrote the book review as he would like it to ... http://www.derekscruggs.com/visualizing-outcomes.html Yeah, yeah - I know. I've been a terrible blogger of late (though a little better about tweeting). And so now I finally have the energy to write something and it's nothing more than a commercial for the panels I've submitted to South by Southwest. So sue me. But make ... http://www.derekscruggs.com/shameless-self-promotion.html When my sister gave me the news of Charlton Heston's death, the first thing I said was "Did they pry his gun out of his cold, dead hands?" http://www.derekscruggs.com/hate-to-admit-it-but.html Tonight I did a demo of SurveyGizmo at the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup. I was fortunate to get a few laugh lines, but the credit really goes to Scott for putting together some nice screen shots and helping me work out exactly what to present. A typical client demo or ... http://www.derekscruggs.com/we-demod-at-new-tech-meetup.html I was a fan of Arthur C. Clarke when I was a kid and, like many, was sad to hear of his death. Today I learned this: While a radar technician in the Royal Air Force (1941-1946), Clarke had an idea which he wrote up in a 1945 technical paper: "Extra-terrestrial ... http://www.derekscruggs.com/what-i-learned-today.html