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Squirrel (The best photo I've ever taken)
I think this is the best photo I've ever taken. I've really gotta thank my subject for how it came to be. I took a bunch of these, some failed badly, some worked better. Look at that tiny face. Keeping eye on the short paparazzi and her tall friend while eating as fast as possible. And the paws, the fur, the tail and the pink nipples on the soft tummy. The squirrel stayed, fortunately for me on that branch for a while. The other squirrels (there was a bunch) weren't as photogenic. Or I wasn't fast enough to capture their fast paced essence.
Stones in my pockets
Jamie from A Pair of Pears wrote about rocks on Dearest Nature Blog. Her reminiscing of childhood reminded me of how my pockets used to be filled with small stones. It wasn't that sort of collecting where you find certain types of stones and file them meticulously with the type and the place. It wasn't anything close to that pro. I was picking the pretty stones. Any piece of rock that would satisfy my young sense of aesthetics I would pick up an put into my pocket. Shine, interesting colors, a smooth surface or a curious shape would suffice. My dad still jokes about how I filled my poc...
Marketing Basics: The reason
This is a new basics of marketing series aimed for small businesses and self employed individuals. You build it and they will come! That's what they say. The truth is that's not likely to happen for real. Not just like that. As fine as your product or service is, it's not going to sell itself. It's not magic, it's not fate. Advertising is marketing, but marketing is not advertising. That means you can, you will and you have to market, but you don't have to advertise to do so. It also means advertising should be only part of your marketing, not the whole deal. If you find advertisi...
Sorry, I don't think I'm the right person to do this
When you are offered a job or a project, you should take it. Right? Wrong. Today was one of those moments, when I just had to say: "Sorry, I don't think I'm the right person to do this." It was a project offer from someone I've worked with before and I'm working with currently on another thing. But this one would have had to be ready in a very short time. Unfortunately after asking a couple of additional questions I came to think I might not be able to do it in that time. Saying no to a job or project offer is really difficult. Especially if you aren't exactly swimming in money like Uncl...
Twitter Tuesday: Should I follow everyone back?
As you gain more and more followers on Twitter you'll might start to think if you should follow them all back. If you are a celebrity, you don't think about it for a sec. Nor if you have a huge ego and believe you are the center of the world. Otherwise, the thought may cross your mind. Why to follow everyone back? Following back is considered as the norm and the polite thing to do amongst some Twitter users. Many of them have also noticed it's a great way to get more followers. It is. Often (non-celebrity) Twitter users have many followers mainly because they follow everyone, except perhap...
Hot Font #7: Six Caps
The lucky seventh Hot Font was a lucky find as well. My friend Anthony was recently searching for neat new fonts. When I asked him what he's found, he pointed me to this gem called Six Caps. Six Caps is clean and narrow all caps font. It's great for posters as well as headers. Created by Vernon Adams the font is free and licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL). Six Caps on Font Squirrel and Google Web Fonts.
There's no shame in not affording it
Last year I started to do something a little bit evil. I begun to make certain people uncomfortable by talking about money and especially about how I can't afford everything. I've found their reaction entertaining. I'd started to notice how they get really twitchy and scared when someone says they can't afford something. Or that something was way too expensive. Like it would be somehow embarrassing not being dirty rich. Actually all of us have something we cannot afford. Even wealthy people and countries cannot buy everything. And that's good. If someone could go and purchase all and anyth...
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