The Client / Vendor Relationship

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-12-26

I saw this recently on "Clients Suck" website (http://www.clientssuck.net/the-vendorclient-relationship/) and had to say it really hit home. If you're in business for yo ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - video, clients, youtube, barter,

Wow, what a year so far!

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-11-19

What a year its been so far. Yeah, I know, I already said that in the title.

I think for now I'll write a quick post, then when I have time I'll go back and write a few more posts to fill in the details, fair enough?

So, we start at the beginning of 2011.

I had my little store, Interwebz. ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - washington dc, western truck body, updates, 2011, bridal conference, cool, edmonton, porsche, motorhome, ,

Welcome Back, sorry for the lapse!

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-11-19

This is a quick test to see if everything works still, been a while. And here we go! ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - testing,

Chasma Boreale, Mars

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-16

Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley, cuts deep into Mars' north polar icecap. Its walls rise about 4,600 feet, or 1,400 meters, above the floor. Where the edge of the ice cap has retreated, sheets of sand are emerging that accumulated during earlier ice-free climatic cycles. Winds blowing of ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - nasa, mars, ice cap, mars odyssey, jpl,

Bark Less, Wag More!

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-14

So, somehow our farm has become the place for animals that no one else wants. Well, I guess someone paid for the Llama, but I don't think it was very much, right?

Like a while ago, "the farm" adopted a female Lab, which had like 11 pups. I say it like that, because lets face it, when a big dog l ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - carlin, dogs, farm, lab, martina mcbride, social media, success,

Is www.justroses.com - by any other name - still as sweet?

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-13

Is www.justroses.com , by any other name, still as sweet?

If you're considering a website for your business, choosing the right name has to be near the top of the list of things to be thinking about!

There are only a few ways for customers to get to your website:

... Click to read the rest

TAGS - articles, business, internet, web, website, domain, godaddy, ,

The Internet and your Local Business

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-12

As a local business owner, it easy to feel threatened by the Internet. What if all your customers start shopping on line, you might think?

A few years ago I was at a meeting with other local business owners, just before a wedding expo.

The florist was complaining about an article in the paper ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - articles, business, computers, internet, web,

Resilience, Rebuilding, and Recon!

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-11

This didn't start off on purpose, I was just thinking of what I should write about, and today's post title just came out. So I wrote it down on a note pad, laughed about it, then went about what I was doing. Then a bit later, I read a post on the

The Plan - Vision Board Time... Finally!

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-10

This has been a weird year for me.

I usually try to have a plan when the year starts. In fact, when I started up Interwebz.ca, a little computer shop in town, I kind of thought I had a plan. Well, really, it was a plan, I just didn't like where it was going, so I pulled the pl ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - 2011, plan, goals, motivation, motorhome, porsche, motorcycle, dreams,

Quote - Earl Nightingale

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-4

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."
— Earl Nightingale: ... Click to read the rest

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Making the Grade - NASA ISS spacewalk

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-3

Making the Grade
NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew (partially obscured at center) conducted the STS-133 mission's spacewalk on Monday, Feb. 28. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Bowen and Drew installed the J612 power extension cable, moved a failed ammonia pump module to the Exter ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - nasa, iss, sts-133, eva,

A Good Day for a Spacewalk

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-2

Emerging from the Quest airlock on the International Space Station, astronaut Alvin Drew began his shared spacewalking duties with fellow astronaut Steve Bowen. Drew and Bowen completed the STS-133 mission's first spacewalk on Monday, Feb. 28. Drew is the 200th human to perform a spacewalk, his firs ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - nasa, spacewalk, iss, sts-133, quest, airlock,

NASA - Conjoined - Dextre

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-03-2

The docked space shuttle Discovery and the Canadian-built Dextre, also known as the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, are featured in this photograph taken by the STS-133 crew aboard the station. The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for the scene.
... Click to read the rest

TAGS - nasa, dextre, canada, shuttle, sts-133, discovery,

Flywheel Momentum Metaphor

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-22

Quoted from an email today by Rich Schefren :

Here's a metaphor from the best selling business book From Good to Great by Jim Collins.

"Picture a huge, heavy flywheel - a massive metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle, about thirty feet in diameter, two feet thick, and weighing about 5,00 ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - motivation, momentum, flywheel, rich schefren, awesome, quote,

Revisions, Remorse, and Restarts :)

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-22

Wow, that's a catchy title me thinks!

I sometimes joke about Carlin 2.0. My life is made up of plenty of ideas or attempts at making something or other work.

Or at the very least not be too painful!

Sometimes I get to step outside myself and really look at where I am, from a fresh perspect ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - article, carlin, motivation, remorse, restarts, revisions,

Majestic Disk of Stars

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-18

The Hubble Space Telescope revealed this majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841.

A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes that are silhouetted against the population of whitish middle-aged stars. Much younger ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - nasa, hubble, stars, photo, hst, galaxy, esa,

Blue on Mars

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-17

Blue on Mars
This image shows part of the floor of Rabe Crater, a large impact crater in Mars' southern highlands.

Dark dunes--accumulations of wind blown sand--cover part of crater's floor, and contrast with the surrounding bright-colored outcrops. The extreme close-up view reveals a thumbprint ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - nasa, mars, picture, crater, impact, dunes,

Fuzzy Thinking

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-15

Focused Thinking: Eliminate Fuzzy Thinking Forever
By Rich Schefren

In order to go from fuzzy thinking to focused thinking, you need to know the answers to three questions...

What exactly do you want?
What's the absolute minimum necessary to have it?
What's the fastest and easiest way t ... Click to read the rest

Life Is Beautiful

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-15

A wonderful movie based on this premise was 1997's Life Is Beautiful (which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film). It told the story of a Jewish man, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni), who, along with his 5-year-old son, was interned in a Nazi concentration camp.

Here was a guy in ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - movie, nazi, jew, concentration camp,

Giant Ring of Black Holes

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-15

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1864.html

Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring -- not of jewels -- but of black holes. This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light years from Earth, shows X-rays f ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - nasa, black holes, valentines, wow, super,

THE SOLDIER and the Rose

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-15

THE SOLDIER
Author Unknown

John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had ... Click to read the rest

DARPA - Local Motors Open Source vehicle

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-15

http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-xc2v-design-challenge/17863/

In an effort to streamline the design and build process for manufacturing military vehicles, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is enlisting the “power of the crowd”. Through the Experimental Crowd-derived Combat-supp ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - darpa, open source, military, vehicle, cool,

feel differently about what you already have

By Carlin Comm posted on 2011-02-15

"As soon as you start to feel differently about what you already
have, you will start to attract more of the good things, more
of the things you can be grateful for."
— Joe Vitale: Hypnotic marketer and author ... Click to read the rest

TAGS - quote, joe vitale, feel different, good things,