http://paulschreiber.com/blog tagline goes here Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:50:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following up on the booking agent and singer, we have the guitar player and entrepreneur. Jukebox the Ghost's Tommy Siegel and Citizen Agency's Chris Messina: Apparently they have a triplet, Josh Roth. http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/04/28/separated-at-birth-part-ii/ Your generation had John Kennedy and Pierre Trudeau. My generation has checked out of politics for the longest time. We're jaded. We're cynical. We're tired of spin and sound bites, tired of talking points, tired of being talked at. We want authenticity. We want an end to corruption. We want inspiration. In ... http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/04/15/why-im-going-to-pittsburgh/ Hanlon's razor tells us that we should "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." I'm still unable to figure which is the case with Facebook's new promo guidelines. Bad linking policies are nothing new — we've seen them from Fast Company, NPR, Starbucks and KPMG. But these ... http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/04/12/facebooks-lawyers-idiots-or-jackasses/ In English, when reading numbers out loud, one often "chunks" the numbers into smaller groups. For example, when reading the phone number "555-1212," one would say "five five five, one two one two," not "five hundred fifty-five, one thousand two hundred and twelve." Similarly, one would call Interstate 280 "interstate two ... http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/04/08/lost-in-translation/ Apparently some people just don't read the news. Remember, kids: don't mess with a marine: A boy in his mid-teens learned Wednesday afternoon that it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, even if the former Marine is 84 years old, police said ... http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/03/31/you-fucked-with-the-wrong-marine-part-ii/ I love that my airline has a sense of humour: It's great that JetBlue lets its people speak in a human voice. http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/03/19/jetblue-gets-it/ "No graphic in human history has saved so many lives in africa and asia." — Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/03/05/why-design-matters/ Here are the tools I mentioned in my Mac Productivity 101 session at the San Fran MusicTech Summit: Know your instrument Inquisitor: Google inside Safari Quicksilver and LaunchBar: application launchers Collaboration SubEthaEdit: collaborative text editor Screen Sharing: built in to Mac OS X Leopard Address Book: built in to Mac OS X Teleport: share one keyboard and mouse ... http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/02/25/mac-productivity-101/ Eyeless Writer called Verizon 56 times to ask two different data pricing questions. 93 percent of reps answered at least one question incorrectly. http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/01/24/verizon-93-wrong/ If you tell it to, Friendster helpfully reminds you when your friends' birthdays are coming up. This is handy for calling them, writing them, or leaving them happy birthday comments on their wall Friendster profile. Look at the email itself: What's missing? The birthday itself. Instead of building trust with its members ... http://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/01/19/friendster-is-a-click-whore-too/