Ever feel just really disconnected? That’s about how I’m feeling these days. Politics? Not feeling engaged right now. Baseball? The Cubs :cubs: aren’t making me happy. Work? It’s there. Life? I have a headache. The only thing news worthy of the past week that’s held any interest for me is the splitting of Oasis withContinue reading “On Late Summer Doldrums”
On Productivity and Preoccupation
Ever have a day where you’re completely unfocused, where your mind wanders, where your time management skills are all shot to heck, and where the clouds drifting past the office are infinitely more interesting than the work on you desk? Yeah, today was one of those days. Which is why it came as a completeContinue reading “On Productivity and Preoccupation”
On the Questions People Ask
In the next day or two, I’ll put up a complete breakdown of August’s webstats for allyngibson.com, but in the interim, I thought I’d point out a couple of interesting things I’ve seen come through from Google in the past week or two of search phrases people are using. alan moore star trek. I don’tContinue reading “On the Questions People Ask”
On Watching Saturday Afternoon Baseball
I so love watching baseball on FOX and listening to Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. “Let me tell you one thing about Jack Fox,” says McCarver. “He can hit.” Well, no shit, Sherlock. And of course, they have to mention Steve Bartman.
On Arthurian Musings
On a bulletin board I frequent there has recently been some discussion of Merlin, the BBC series of which NBC recently finished broadcasting its first season. In Merlin, the titular wizard is anything but a wizard. He’s teenaged. He has powers, but he’s untrained in them. The use of magic is forbidden in the landsContinue reading “On Arthurian Musings”
On Turmoil in TrekLit
In light of editor Margaret Clark’s firing at Pocket Books earlier this week, my friend Jon Polk mused on the state of Star Trek literature today. Jon’s is a contrarian viewpoint, and, as one might assume from my recent participation in an round-table discussion about the new Star Trek film and its effects on Treklit,Continue reading “On Turmoil in TrekLit”
On a Spike in Website Traffic
After wondering why my website has seen a 250% (or more) increase in site traffic over the past week, I think I’ve found the answer. It’s Taptu, a new search engine tailored for the iPhone. Their bot, apparently, doesn’t behave like a bot. It acts like an iPhone, it serves a User-Agent string like anContinue reading “On a Spike in Website Traffic”
On Things I’ve Been Reading
Let’s talk some recent comic books… Batgirl #1 DC Comics Written by Bryan Q. Miller Art by Lee Garbett and Trevor Scott I hated it. And I liked it. We’ll start there. There’s a new Batgirl in Gotham City. Stephanie Brown, formerly Spoiler, formerly the fourth Robin, has promised her occasional boyfriend, Tim Drake, formerlyContinue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
On New Visitors and the Like
For reasons that pass beyond my understanding, I’ve recently seen a 250% increase in the traffic to my website. I’m looking at my own behavior, as regards the website, in the past two or three weeks. I changed the website theme. I’ve been posting less. Could these be reasons? One’s choice of website layout canContinue reading “On New Visitors and the Like”
On Advice for Resume Writing
Let’s talk resumes. Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article in the Business section entitled “Tiny Typos Can Add Up To a Big X On Your Résumé.” Michelle Singletary asks, “Should someone’s résumé get tossed in the trash if he or she mistakenly wrote ‘Graphic designer seeking no-profit career’?” Should it happen? If you’re the applicantContinue reading “On Advice for Resume Writing”