The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | April 28, 2006
Off of most computer stuff today, because it’s far too beautiful to be staring at a screen. I’ve gone running, I’ve cleaned the house, and I am about to meet some friends. In the meantime, entertain yourselves with these fun links:
National Day of Slayer - exactly what it sounds like, coming on 6/6/06
Baby [...]
Dan | April 27, 2006
There’s a new episode up at The Chronicles of Charlie. He’s moving on a touch, and this was a very sad episode for me to write. I hope I got the tone right. Anyway, our hero isn’t ending his adventures; he’ll be back in a couple of weeks.
Dan | April 26, 2006
It’s 12:15, and I just got through my email for the day; been gone and doing stuff for a while. Long, long, long day. But, I would like to point out that the sunset today from the bridge to Crockett was pretty amazing. Pretty area, this.
Dan | April 25, 2006
My housemate is in the living room listening to Weezer’s Pinkerton - a fine, fine album. It’s ten years old. When I was growing up, the ten-year-old line was usually the dividing line between “new” and “classic” rock, and “modern” rock was more cutting-edge.
What is what now? Is Guns N’ Roses (nearly twenty years old) [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
OK, I’ve migrated all of my old pages over to Wordpress (they’re available through the links at the top). Other things to do:
1) Hack up the pages code so that it displays pages instead of bloggy stuff in the sidebar
2) Do something cool with the main picture.
3) Forward over oilies.com to run off of [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
Section one (J.E.)
**3Q financial results indicate strength in core business, and real progress in efforts to transfer to enterprise multichannel strategy.
**Results demonstrate that business model achieves greater customer traction than anyone else in financial applications space.
**Enterprise solutions continue to transition business to largest, most strategic FI market, leveraging new wins in all strategic market segments.
**Generated [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
BuySafe History and Background
3Dnet is the brainchild of Aaron Day and Paul Govereau, friends since high school. The company was founded by Day after he found his studies at Duke University to be less than fulfilling. After two months of research, he concluded that commerce was moving towards a new frontier, that of the networked [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
Got Traffic? Iconomize It!
You have a web presence. You’ve got the visitors, they come, click around and go somewhere else, leaving only cookies in their wake. Sooner or later, this is going to cost you; funding will go away, and you’ll be left with crippling server and bandwidth costs. Traffic is only the first step-you [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
Most of my professional career has been spent working with language, an aspect of marketing communication that too often falls by the wayside. Language is an integral part of any marketing message or brand strategy; a single word can make a difference. I strive for brevity, clarity, and simplicity in my business writing. If you [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
I met Lalit Tamang on my second day hiking the Annapurna circuit; he was guiding a middle-aged Australian couple who had also hired on Lalit’s younger brother as a porter. Their group and my crew shared lodges for six or seven days, unwinding the uphill days over cups of milk tea and endless plates of [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
In the late ‘90s, business school graduates had the world at their fingertips: a booming economy, enormous demand for their services, and as many as four or five job offers before finishing third semester. No longer.
The path for newly minted MBAs was straightforward: somewhere between forty and sixty percent of students at the top schools [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
The driveway leading to 401 Edmands Road winds five hundred feet back from the street through a tunnel of trees, following the line of an ancient stone wall. The present owner’s parents designed and built this four bedroom, three bath home in 1959-60 and it has been in the family ever since. “It’s been built [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
I had spent less time on the pass than any of the motley crew I’d been hiking with for over a week. I’d pushed very hard on the early morning hike from Thorung Phedi at 14,500 feet, struggling for breath in the thin air. I ended up on the side of the trail, five hundred [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
I was the first of our group of six to make it to the precipice overlooking Cachoeira de Fumaca, the highest waterfall in Brazil’s Parque Chapada Diamantina. Carlos beckoned me towards the edge. In three hours we’d developed a good mode of communication: I’d not bother with my broken Spanish, he’d talk a mile a [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
Like any writer, I’ve spent a fair amount of time writing articles. I’ve been lucky to spend an inordinate amount of time writing about two of my great loves: traveling and eating. I’ve also written about real estate, business, and music.
“Lencois, Brazil” published in International Living, October 2003.
“Altitude Sickness”, published in The Square Table, Summer [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
I woke up on the sixteenth to the beeping of the alarm clock that had been given to me by an Australian girl whom I had met at a mountain hostel in Switzerland. Kyle grunted. It was seven fifteen. I flipped the curtains aside to check the weather–grey, threatening rain. Kyle [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
It’s my last day in Bangkok, and as is usual, I’m here to tell a bit of a story:
Sometimes I hate being right. Not often (as most of you are not hesitant to tell me), but sometimes. Unfortunately, last week I was dead right about the legendary Full Moon Rave at Hat Rin.
A bit [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
I made it to Spain after illegally hopping two trains, and spending a large portion of the first ride sitting on top of my large backpack in the little connection part between two cars. Rather than put Spain in a linear form, I’m going to make a list this time.
Things About Spain That Rule:
1) [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
We decided to go bar hopping in Ljubljana because I’d bought a hat, Danny had shaved his head, and Rachel still hadn’t decided on a pair of shoes.
Our first stop was wine at a small, empty pub where the bartender was frantically playing a trivia game on her cell phone. We laughed along with her [...]
Dan | April 25, 2006
I am in Slovenia right now, in one of the most beautiful little villages I have ever seen. I came here this morning after taking an all night train from Budapest…thankfully Rachel, an Aussie girl who I met at the hostel in Hungary, decided to come on down here a few days early, so I [...]
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