Ensight – Jeremy Wright » 2005

… I don’t normally single out great blogs anymore (there are too many), but this guy deserves a massive pat on the back or somesuch. I met him while I was in Seattle and enjoyed his perspective during the dinner. I mean, c’mon, anyone who can say this deserves a medal:

I hate it when this kind of undeserved arrogance leeks out of Redmond like butt juice after a week long Olestra and chilli bender. When will you realize that your real enemy isn’t Linux, it’s your bloated, self-important, user-hating management and culture?

[ quote from LazyCoder himself ]

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Mar 30 2005

Yahoo! 360 Invites

Category: General — Jeremy Wright @ 9:57 am

I’ve now demo’d Yahoo! 360. I’m not incredibly impressed with it as a blogging platform. It’s really, really great as a “true” “My Yahoo” type of system, where how you interact with others is all in one place. That’s really nice, and is likely what I’ll continue to use it for. I particularly like the integration with LaunchCast.

Anyways, if you want an invite, drop me a comment (with a valid email address, obviously) and I’ll send you one.

It’s fairly simple, fairly easy to use, and fairly good at what it does.

Who’s it for? Existing Yahoo! users.

It’s too complicated to be a Blogger replacement. Too simple to be a business tool. Too quirky to be a huge draw to anyone who isn’t already a “Yahooligan”.

But, it’s alright for what it is. But maybe I’m just missing something. Maybe I should be more excited by one of the first social blogging platforms ever. But I’m not.

I’m happy to be impressed with this later, and I’m happy for this to evolve. Maybe it’s just that I don’t know anyone who’s working on this product, there was no warning about it, and the exclusive nature of “you can only see my blog if you’re a Yahooligan” have combined to give me no real reason to get excited.

I’m happy to establish more connections with folk at Yahoo, but besides Jeremy, I know of few people actually reaching out in the way that a lot of top folk at Microsoft are.

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Mar 29 2005

What To Do When You Get Your Ass Kicked

Category: From My Life, General — Jeremy Wright @ 2:30 pm

Earlier today, I was having a pity party. “Woe is me, I’m broke, life sucks”

What do you do when you’ve just been slammed with thousands of dollars in unforeseen expenses? Well, for me the process goes something like:

1. Blog about it
2. Mope around doing nothing
3. Play Age of Mythology until fingers hurt
4. Look for jobs
5. Start putting more irons in the fire
6. Perk up
7. Be ready to take on the world
8. Eat ice cream

There you have it. Tips for success from me. For what little it’s worth, considering I still owe thousands of dollars in unforeseen expenses that I still can’t afford

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Mar 29 2005

Anyone Know of Jobs in the GTA?

Category: General — Jeremy Wright @ 10:07 am

Some… Unexpected expenses have arisen from my aborted trip to the states. More than I can afford to pay even if I rape all of our savings, RRSP’s and credit cards.

At this point, my options are fairly limited unless I can talk my way out of them, so it looks like I might be needing a job. Or something.

If anyone knows of anything I’d be qualified to do (consulting, business, communications, blogging, IT, project management, writing, customer service, sales, etc) I’m willing to listen. Beggers can’t be choosers.

If the work can be done online, I’m open to working with just about anyone from just about anywhere. I just figured local’d be easier.

ps: I have never so wanted to go and get shit faced drunk like I do now…

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Mar 29 2005

Happy Birthday to The Wealthy Blogger!

Category: From My Life, General — Jeremy Wright @ 9:16 am

The Wealthy Blogger was launched just a week ago.

Already the response has been fantastic. 80 odd comments, on 20 odd posts. Lots of incoming links. Decent traffic (700-800 visits a day).

I’m really enjoying this project. It’s not earning a tonne of money yet (1$ a day in AdSense), but like Darren says: if you can get the growth, the cash will soon come!

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Mar 29 2005

The Funny Thing About Work

Category: Work — Jeremy Wright @ 9:14 am

When you work for someone else: You can’t wait to take breaks.
When you work for yourself: You feel guilty stepping away from the computer.

When you work for someone else: Being sick is a break.
When you work for yourself: Being sick means you have to do more work when you’re better… so you might as well just work when you’re sick.

When you work for someone else: You take full meal breaks.
When you work for yourself: You eat in front of the computer.

When you work for someone else: You get frustrated if you have to work more than an 8 hour day.
When you work for yourself: You’re shocked if you work for less than 12 hours a day.

When you work for someone else: It takes you an hour to get to work.
When you work for yourself: It takes you an hour to get to work

When you work for someone else: You know you have money coming in next week, so seeing a movie is relaxing.
When you work for yourself: You never really know for sure if money’s coming in, so any expense stresses you out.

Yes, I’m learning this all isn’t a dream. I absolutely love what I do, but I’m still learning this thing called “balance”.

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Mar 29 2005

New BizBlog Show Up

Category: General — Jeremy Wright @ 9:03 am

A new BizBlog show is up at The Podcast Network.

This is our first “interview” episode. Our first guest is Kevin O’Keefe from LexBlog.com. It’s a great interview, as Kevin has a lot to say, and he has a great way of talking about something he is obviously passionate about: helping lawyers get back to why they first got into law, ie: to help people.

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The BizBlog Show #03- 30th March 2005 (36min 32sec): MP3 – 12.6MB

TIME
00:00 Network Intro

00:17 Show Opener

01:04 Interview with Kevin

34:50 Jeremy wraps up the show

35:20 Network Wrap-up

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