Random Articles

• First Big Snow of 2005 Holiday Season Has Started Expecting 6-8″ before it ends sometime round Thursday or Friday. I’d be more excited if I wasn’t driving to St. Paul first thing in the morning.
• My Car Won’t Run E85, Maybe Yours? Yesterday, I noticed the signage at the gas station up the street was showing prices for unleaded gasoline and E85, the fuel made of 85% ethanol and just 15% petroleum. E85 can be made from sugar cane, corn, wheat, just about any starch. Here in the midwest the obvious choice is corn. As a quick aside,
• Done Monkey-ing Around “…my fear on this one is that no one will want to drink [the beer] for fear they will be implicated, or worse yet, sympathetic to the kidnappers.” - Bongo’s slightly regretful kidnapper.
• Minneapolis Scobleized Tim, Cody, Chuck and I grabbed a drink with Robert Scoble tonight. And I also met local open source CMS developer Tim Broeke from ElectricJet. If you’re finger isn’t on the pulse of weblogs, Scoble is Microsoft’s überblogger. He was in town to start a conversation with Target. I applaud Target for this. There are only a
• “You should be fired if you do a marketing site without an RSS feed.” (originally published at MNteractive.com) What the internet does really, really well is connect things through hyperlinks. The outcome of hyperlinks is connecting people. When people are connected, there’s a relationship. Websites are an excellent marketing tool. Like any tool, they need to be used correctly. To do so, they need to build a relationship between the company