by Jim Stitzel | Feb 3, 2014 | Asides
Dear writers, authors, and other creative types, You know that thing you’ve heard about liars’ eyes? How when you tell a lie, you look up and to the right because that’s what you do when you access the creative part of your brain? And how you look to...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 1, 2014 | Asides
Ok, folks, if you’re going request a WordPress design, your posting needs to be longer than, “Design and some coding and app application.” Seriously, could you be any less specific? Add to that a budget that’s $100 at maximum, and you’re...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 11, 2013 | Asides
So, I just switched my preferred browser back to Firefox. I’d been using Chrome for a while now because it provides seamless (or nearly so) tab syncing between my laptop and my iPhone. Trouble is, Chrome has started leaving this massive processing footprint on...
by Jim Stitzel | Jun 3, 2013 | Asides
I can appreciate an app like Focus@Will that supposedly streams music to your ears from a genre that helps you be more productive. And I’m sure it’s effective for some subset of the population. Except… have you seen my playlist? It crosses so many...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 26, 2013 | Asides
For the love of Pete, people. That free iPhone 5 thing that keeps going around on Facebook? It’s a hoax, a scam, a spammy link-bait lie designed to generate social currency so some chucklehead can then go and sell the page to the highest bidder, who can then...