If I can find just one person who understands these codes that’d make my day year. I don’t know why but I’d get a certain amount of pleasure using server response codes to converse. Someday, I can imagine this moving into everyday conversation, just like ‘lol’ and ‘omg’ I can tell that girl that her dress is 406.

I can’t picture a more ironic, yet somehow satisfying headline: “Enron Corp. founder and former Chief Executive Ken Lay, who was convicted in May for his role in the Houston-based company’s downfall, died after suffering a heart attack on Wednesday at his vacation home in Colorado.” (Link)

I’ve taken on a fun little project, a webcomic. I have little-to-no artistic ability but I have a lot of funny material. I’m debating, though, do the comic in MS Paint or draw by hand? Anyway, the comic is called Life With Women and I plan to provide a weekly dose of entertainment. If you just read this thinking I’m sexist or perhaps offensive, that’s fine, it just means you didn’t go visit the site and read my introduction.

I wanted to get some information on Tourgasm, Dane Cook’s cleverly named comedy tour. When I visited the official website I was greeted with “The official trailer for the brand new HBO Comedy Documentary Series – Tourgasm!” When you hit Play you’re told the video has been removed for, get this, copyright infringement! YouTube, you piece of shit. You removed the official trailier. Look at all these bootleg videos! I’m sorry but I had to go to MySpace to watch the trailers. You know you’re done when MySpace does better than you…

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Vacation was great, I got lots of naps. Road trips are cool like that. Plus, it got me away from the record heat here in Colorado (something like 95+ for the last few days). Anyway, I had plenty of time to do some thinking and sort out my thoughts. Once I got back I started calling all kinds of people and started working on some projects:

• One is a web comic,
• One is a podcast,
• One is a website for musicians,
• One is a CRM website with a twist,
• One is a little badge/applet for bloggers, and
• One is re-organizing and re-energizing yopos.

There’s just so much to do. Plus I work maybe 60-70 hours a week. Busy busy! Oh, and then there’s having a life; I’ll be playing DDR with a friend tonight. I guess that doesn’t count though…

…unfortunately I didn’t read as much as I had hoped. How ironic is it that I didn’t get around to finishing Getting Things Done?)

PS: Congratulations to all the new 9rulers!

I hate to do this but I haven’t had time to write up any drafted posts… or any posts for that matter. This week has been crunch time in many areas and tomorrow I’ll be leaving for a week and a half. So, I’ll be back on the 12th and resume blogging with some (hopefully) great stuff.

If you’re still not sure about the power of bloggers please familiarize yourself with this Apple court decision. Then take a look at this question from a recent acquisition FAQ:

Personally I’ll file myself under ‘Analyst’. It just rolls off the tongue a bit better…

The following are some ways to “become indispensable” according to Dr. Wayne Boss and myself. These concepts were collected by him and later recalled by yours truly. If you classify yourself as an entrepreneur you might (read: will definitely) disagree with many of these points.

Seth Godin asked what it would take to become indispensable. I feel the following are some good places to start:

• Take the unwanted job. Being an intern I can relate to this. Take on the projects that nobody else wants. Not only will you learn something and become an expert at something that nobody else wanted, you’ll demonstrate your ability to take on new (or undesired) things. This will open up many more doors in the future.
• Go the extra mile. Make sure you’re always rending more or doing a better job than you’re being paid for. If you don’t exceed expectations then you’re most likely overpaid… and people will notice. Plus, everything above expectations is what creates your true value.
• Work harder when unsupervised. It’s natural to work less when nobody is there to crack the whip. You should do the opposite though. One of my employers would have to travel for weeks at a time. When he’d come back I’d have a list of things accomplished while he was away. This builds trust and demonstrates your ability to manage yourself (and others). Perhaps this is one trait that makes many entrepreneurs successful.
• Give credit to the group. There’s no need to boast all your accomplishments. Modesty is your friend. Elway has always pointed to his defensive line for his success. He always said, to some extent, that anyone could do his job if they had a line as great as his.
• Be aware of your supervisor’s needs. If your supervisor doesn’t want to dance around the details learn to get to the point very quickly. Tools like the FIRO-B assessment really help with this. I’ll introduce a new tool next week that will apply here as well. The point is, know not only what they expect but what they need from you.
• Make your boss look good. This goes along with the last point. I, again, can relate to this as an intern. If you do a great job which makes your boss looks good, you’re bound to be taken care of. Think about it, you do the research and all the work and find a way for the company to save a million dollars every year. You help your boss, who

Senate says English is national, unifying tongue
The Senate agreed on Thursday to make English the national language of the United States and moments later also adopted a milder alternative calling English the country’s “unifying language.” (Source)

Wow, now people can’t keep touting that stupid “there is no national langue” argument. Well… if it makes it all the way through the House.